Genesis Project is a local, non-governmental, non-profit humanitarian organization, set up in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in June 1996, with main goals:

• to educate children and adults about ecology and environmental protection,
• to educate children and adults about gender equality,
• to reduce the negative impact that mines and UXO have on children and their communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
• to spread the idea of interactive education through live puppet show performances depicting different educational topics (ecology, environmental protection, mine risk education, children rights, prevention of addiction diseases, etc.),
• to educate children and youth about healthy life styles,
• to develop and support various co-existence initiatives throughout B&H,
• to strengthen communities with the purpose of teaching people about freedom of speech, democracy, basic human rights,
• to help war traumatized children and their families,
• to build up democratic governance.

In the past, as now, Genesis Project has targeted mainly rural areas of Republika Srpska / Bosnia and Herzegovina, trying to help people in numerous ways, starting with setting up libraries and finishing with puppet show performances for the children.

Recently, the majority of Genesis Project activities have been focused on the whole of Republika Srpska and some parts of Federation BiH. Genesis Project staff is comprised of local residents.

In 2006, Genesis Project is funded by Delegation of European commission to B&H, UNICEF B&H, CIDA, International Orthodox Christian Charity - IOCC and Balkan Aid Relief Foundation.

In previous years, the European Commission, Brussels through the Dutch foundation "Mala Sirena", UNHCR, USAID, ECHO, Open Society Fund-Soroš, International Rescue Committee, IOCC and The Salvation Army have funded Genesis Project.


Important notice:

Thanks to the understanding from Banjaluka Mayor Mr. Dragoljub Davidović and delegates in City Assembly, Genesis Project was awarded (after 8 years of humanitarian work) with free-of-charge right of use of office space (owned by City Banjaluka). This significantly helped implementation of our current projects and has opened us possibility to implement some new projects.