BOSNIAN REPRESENTATIVE ASSOCIATION FOR VALUABLE OPPORTUNITIES

Bosnian Representative Association for Valuable Opportunities (BRAVO) is a non-profit and nongovernmental organization. The things that make this organization outstanding and ready to assume responsibility are core principles: tolerance, democracy, diversity, voluntariness and openness. BRAVO, together with local communities and partners, in harmony with Statute, is engaged a variety of activities throughout the year with a focus on marking all events important for voluntarism, while raising awareness of young people on variety of topics. We lay great importance in monitoring of all the activities in order to find the most suitable tools and ways to get the most productive outcome. Youth and volunteers are the strongest points of BRAVO and they are the most valuable part of it. Our teams are actively engaged in the following fields/topics: Human Rights, Anti-Trafficking, Reproductive health and STD-s, Gender Equality and Combating Gender-Based Violence, Sports on daily basis, Audio and Video production, People with fewer opportunities, Organizing events, Entrepreneurship, IT, technology, Humanitarian actions, National and International projects, Support in fight against Criminal and Corruption, Accelerating start-ups, Publishing books, brochures, newsletters, flyers, affiliations and other publications and a lot of others activities. Our general target group is youth within the age of 13 to 30, but we focus on all people in need of help and our support. Bearing that in mind, we say that we care for people from 3 to 103. Focus of our organization is on international projects, including sports in our organization, and work on art and creative actions such as photography, graphics, dance and music through which we promote human rights, fight against hate speech, fight for right of minorities, disable people, people with fewer opportunities and taking care of European values and principles. We are working with institutions for people with fewer opportunities, teaching silent language in cooperation with people with hearing disability. Goals and activities of the organization are: - advocating the promotion of democracy and democratic values in Bosnia and Herzegovina and EU - active involvement in the promotion of European standard in the field of public policies - advocating the promotion of civil society values - supporting the fight against crime and corruption - advocating the promotion of ecology and environment protection - advocating gender equality - assistance and support in the promotion of culture and sport - active involvement in the promotion of socially responsible entrepreneurship -advocating the promotion of tolerant relations among citizens of B&H of different nationalities and ethnicity - active involvement in the promotion of altruism and social solidarity through organizing humanitarian, cultural, sports and educational events for the purpose of realizing activities of the Organization in accordance with the law - working with institutions for people with fewer opportunities - assistance and support in identifying the interest and needs of citizens regarding government - active involvement in the promotion of the development of local authorities, democracy, and political participation - cooperation with same or similar organizations and government institutions domestic as well as foreign, for the purpose of realizing activities of the Organization in accordance with the law - publishing books, brochures, leaflets, flyers, and other publications, as well as starting a website for the needs of members of the Organization for purpose of realizing activities of Organization in accordance with the law - organizing independently or in cooperation with other legal entities, roundtables, symposiums, debates, counseling, workshops, public debates and other events for the purpose of realizing activities of Organization in accordance with the law. - daily work with disable youth - changing start-up ecosystem in CEE region