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Jovana and Dejan walk One Hour Everyday from School to their Home

December 5, 2018
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Jovana (12) and Dejan (8) are walking approximately an hour each day from school to their home. The road takes them over the valleys and up the hills, and as it’s one of the final days of a golden fall, while the weather is still warm enough for a brisk walk.

A chilly wind carries the children’s chatter down the small mountain stream and Jovana pulls up her hoodie. “It will be much harder during the winter,” she says. The children are concerned about the signs of a rapidly approaching winter, when the snow will cover the mountain, slowing them down and making their way home even longer.

Their older sister Dejana started high school, and once she finishes her walk down the hill, she takes a bus to Doboj, a nearby town in Central Bosnia. For her parents it is a constant struggle to be able to afford the monthly bus pass for her, because for the people around here, 35 BAM is a small fortune. Their family lives from selling their own products, and they can barely sell enough to purchase the bus pass and the school supplies for the children.

“Life is hard when you are far from everything and there are no chances of getting a job,” says Mladen, the children’s father, “It is a constant struggle.”

The Petkovic family is one of the beneficiaries of the project “Integrated socio-economic support to landmine victims in BiH” funded by the European Union and co-funded by World Vision Austria and partnering municipalities. The goal of the project is to provide economic and social support for 200 landmine victims and their families in BiH and to lend the landmine survivors’ abilities and needs more visibility. The project is implemented by World Vision BiH in partnership with the Organisation of Amputees UDAS.

After school, children often help with chores in and around the house and today, they are collecting hay. A small tractor, which was donated to them through the project, will carry hay up the hill. For most of their lives, they had collected and carried it by hand, but now their machine makes this hard work a lot easier. And not only hay but other yields and goods.

“We keep cows, pigs and grow crops. It is not easy, but we must go on”, says Mladen. “It will allow us not only to transport products but to bring home wood for the winter also.”

Mladen survived a mine accident in 1996. He was in the forest near his property, chopping wood for the winter when he stepped on a landmine. He lost his fingers on one hand, with injuries to his other hand and eyes as well. His injuries left him with an 80-percent disability.

“This has changed my life completely, suddenly, I couldn’t see well anymore”, says Mladen. The woods in the area have not been cleared of mines and cautioned by their own experience, parents fear for their children. “We are constantly worried about the children and we warn them all the time that there is an uncleared area in the vicinity”, concludes Mladen.

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TAGGED: #BiH, #lifestory, #mines, #woods, #work
Y.Z December 5, 2018
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