Eight months after catastrophic floods, many communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina continue to live in ruins. Help arrives slowly, and the locals continue to wait for the reconstruction and security of their homes. What are the obstacles on the road to renovation and where is the support today?
It’s been more than half a year, but in areas that suffered floods as if time cared – mud, applied sand, traces and empty promises remained almost intact.
Locals count a day by a day without concrete aid. The rivers retreated quickly, but the bureaucracy obviously from the river much slower. And while they are waiting for renovation, people look at the ruins of homes – in memories, can’t fear.
Here, see what happened. I don’t know what happened here. When I came home I found out. KUD is going normally an hour on foot on a normal walk, I went for seven hours. I went up over the woods, I couldn’t even. The roads were not. Later shouted to drown your wife … Disaster – Stjepan Prajo, the Fojnice Location.
Stjepan’s wife is the first victim of flood in the Fojnica, and he remained without home, writes federal.ba.
He hopes that the competent finally take concrete steps so that he can return to the Chamber who built all his life again. And not Stjepan is the only one. And while together with other locals of flooded areas, he counts months, in municipal offices counting papers. The promises of the renewal arrived quickly, but we do not see their realization in the work. Culprit in the eyes of the competent – bureaucracy.
The local level has some money, but we must implement procedures. In these few months, 3.5 million has received, we spent that interventional effects of some 800,000. We have made a plan that from other funds 50 percent to a public call in the amount of a million and 100 thousand divide individuals. And in this way I want to appeal, the path we came – the regional path of 437 Fojnica – Ostrožac, especially from the settlement of Luke to MZ where we stand in the length of 6km, was totally destroyed – said Sabahudin Klisura, Head of Fojnica.
Currently, public procurement procedures are implemented and it slows us down. Obtaining various permits and preparation of project documentation. Money is not fully spent, we are waiting for the development of project documentation. The financial assistance to which we are accounting for is from the Government of the Republic of Croatia. Kreševo received 2, 7 million from that package, “Boris Marić, the Chief Kreševo pointed out.
But what is called “process” on paper, it is often not seen in the field. And while the authorities claim to be done, the locals are looking at the same images from a day – cracked walls, ruins and wait without end. Many wait for the basic – roof over your head and a safe home.
How was the first day it was so on it today. Here, you see, I don’t touch anything. I don’t know what I would do and if I wanted to – adds to the past.
While the citizens are waiting, and from the European Union arrives a financial support.
The European Commission has awarded Bosnia and Herzegovina 45.7m euros from EU Solidarity Fund to recover from catastrophic floods from October 2024. year, as part of a wider package of 280m euros to be paid throughout the continent. These funds will go to support actions such as rehabilitation of infrastructure, temporary accommodation and improvement of preventive infrastructure – luigi soreca, the head of the EU Delegation in BiH.
We expect … if it’s … and now, where those funds will be redirected, I don’t know, “says the past.
Large requirements do not – just a roof that doesn’t chase, a wall that doesn’t shoot, the path by which child can to school, writes Hayat TV.
