BYCBOSANA YOUTH COUNCILPROPOSED · PENDING APPROVALA proposed youth initiative of the Bosana Foundation
Built by young people.
For Bosnia’s future.
A global community for young people who want to strengthen their connection to Bosnia and turn that connection into meaningful action.
14–25FOUNDING MEMBER AGES
YOUTH-LED FUNDRAISING → SHARED IMPACT
01 / WHY WE EXIST
Identity is powerful.
Opportunity makes it actionable.
The Bosana Youth Council is envisioned as a bridge: connecting high school and college students across the diaspora with trusted ways to contribute to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Founding members will help shape the Council—creating fundraising campaigns, awareness initiatives, service projects, mentorship opportunities, and new ways for young people to support Bosana’s education mission.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Imagine what happens when belonging becomes action.
An estimated two million people of Bosnia and Herzegovina origin live abroad, including later generations. The Youth Council can help turn that extraordinary global network into enduring relationships, ideas, mentorship, service, and opportunity.
Diaspora estimate: BiH Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees reporting. The 1% and 20,000 figures are illustrative scenarios.
THE BOSANA COMMUNITY
Education creates possibility. Action creates impact.
The Council extends Bosana’s spirit of opportunity by inviting the next generation of the diaspora to mentor, volunteer, organize, fundraise, and serve.
WHAT MEMBERS CAN DO
Lead
Shape a student-founded council and build projects that matter to the next generation.
Connect
Meet Bosnian youth, mentors, professionals, and peers across the global diaspora.
Serve
Support education, mentorship, fundraising, and service projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Grow
Develop real experience in teamwork, communication, philanthropy, and community leadership.
02 / POSSIBILITIES
A council designed to turn ideas into impact.
Initial activities will be shaped with Bosana leadership and the founding member group.
Mentorship
Connect diaspora students with young people and trusted mentors in Bosnia.
↗Service projects
Create practical, youth-led initiatives supporting Bosana’s education mission.
↗Career connections
Build pathways to internships, professional networks, and entrepreneurship.
↗Culture & community
Bring young Bosnians together through cultural, sporting, and community events.
↗THE FOUNDING AMBITION
$100,000
Proposed two-year fundraising goal to support youth development and education through Bosana.
“We want young people to see that their connection to Bosnia is not only something they inherit—it is something they can build.”— Founding vision
FOUNDING MEMBER INTEREST
Help build the first chapter.
We are gathering interest from Bosnian diaspora students and young adults ages 14–25 who want a meaningful—but manageable—way to lead, connect, and contribute alongside school or college.
Express interestThis private concept is for discussion and is not yet an official recruitment announcement.