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Project Nada Women In Black Snowboard Peace Camp News, Updates and Job Opportunities
Project Nada Women In Black Snowboard Peace Camp News, Updates, Job Opportunities
 
 Sljeme/Igman 2007
 What, When. Where?
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 Project Statement
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 Links to Valuable Similar Programs
 Watch a video of a kid whose life was changed by  a similar program

PEACE IS POSSIBLE.
EACH INDIVIDUAL STORY IS VALUABLE.
Riding Raccoons
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Emir Sadikovic and Dylan Butt
  • Project Adventure in New Jersey, espouses similar conflict transformation philosophy, using rock-climbing, hiking and rafting.
  • Wings of Hope organized similar program on Igman (Bosnia) in February 2004 using skiing.
  • U.S. leading snowboard company Burton sponsors a similar program - bringing snowboarding to kids at risk in the States - Chill
  • Winter Camp organized by the Youth Peace Group Danube, from Vukovar
  • Green Visions adventure hiking eco-tours in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
  • Balkan Peace Park Project adventure and natural conservancy projects involving youth straddling Montenegro-Albania-Kosovo border.


During winter 2004 one of the participants of the Chill program at Bolton Valley, Vermont was Emir Sadikovic, a 14 years old Bosnian refugee from Tesanj, near Sarajevo. This is him in picture with New Zealand half-pipe champion Dylan Butt, who visited Chill program at Bolton Valley in February. Click on picture for the story. Click here to see Emir ride, and to hear his story: how did Chill program change his life, and how would the similar program change lives of many kids like him in the territories of former Yugoslavia.

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