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Active support You can support the organisation's valuable work by passing on information about it and by collecting donations. Your commitment counts! In autumn — in the middle of the war in Bosnia — Monika Hauser reads about the countless number of raped women. She reads that Serbian soldiers turn hotels and factories into brothels where women are held captive for days or months. Her shock after reading this is matched only by her outrage at the manner in which the media report about the women: tantamount to abusing them a second time.
As a gynaecologist, she decides to take the matter into her own hands. Monika Hauser meets with indifference when she goes to international aid organisations and presents her idea to take care exclusively of girls and women raped in the war. So she joins forces with about 20 female Bosnian psychologists and doctors.
Together, they develop concepts to help war-traumatised women and their children even while the war is still going on. In Germany, Monika Hauser starts looking for donors — with good results. This generates donations amounting to about DM , In the early days, teams of psychologists and doctors go to neighbouring villages and refugee camps to inform Bosnian women about the support offered.
