| Corridor's History and Environment
Corridor is registered nonprofit, nongovernmental organization for psychosocial and humanitarian assistance. Corridor is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Corridor provides professional services on humanitarian purpose to all people that need help without regard to gender, race, ethnicity or religious affiliation.
Corridor is established in 1993 in Sarajevo, capitol of the war attacked Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992 – 1995). As the first nongovernmental organization Corridor has been established thanks to the financial and logistic support out International Rescue Committee from New York and also thanks to the expert and organizational help of clinical psychologist Ms Barbara Smith, the vice president of IRC for oversees programs.
Corridor was established as multimedia project that will protect and promote mental health of BH citizens. In the period 1993 to 1998 Corridor realized programs of the direct psychological support to the population through 7 counseling centers as well as media programs like monthly magazine «Corridor», open air contact radio broadcasting and documentary films (Sarajevski spomenar, Prvi TV most Sarajevo-Banja Luka, Defending our daughters…).
Today, Corridor acts through its counseling center providing direct psychological, psychiatric and social assistance. Ever since the war was over in BH, Corridor was promoting the process of return applying different programs on conflict resolution, dialogue promotion and community building.
Corridor accomplished its twelve years experience and development thanks to expert and enthusiastic work of the Corridor’s collaborators as well as the numerous international and national organizations. |