Appeal for funding of Nermin Divovic gravestone and help for the family

This is an appeal to help the family of Nermin Divovic who was shot and killed by a Serbian Sniper in Sarajevo in 1994. Nermin was killed while walking with his mother during the war. The family is too poor to pay for a proper headstone marker and almsost twenty years later Nermin's headstone is the same wooden board set up during the war. Help give this poor child a decent final resting place and a little money to help the family. I am hoping to raise $500 for the family $350 for the headstone and the rest for the family. I would like to find a way to buy them something sustainable that will continue to generate revenue or food for them something like a sewing machine, or some small farm animals that will help the family...

Here is a link to the micro funding project...
http://www.microgiving.com/profile/theblackswans

Here is a link to a ebay donations auction I have set up...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220971328970

This is a picture of the family from 2008 at Nermin's grave

Here is the original story...

Serbian Sniper Kills 7-year-old Bosniak Boy Nermin Divovic

Nermin Divovic - Bosniak Child Killed by Serb Sniper in Sarajevo (Bosnian Genocide)

By Srecko Latal
Lakeland Ledger, p.16A
20 November 1994.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — One day after he was shot dead on a Sarajevo street, 7-year-old Nermin Divovic lies in the city morgue, awaiting the return of his soldier-father from the front line before he can be buried.

About 100 yards from the morgue, his mother Dzenana Sokolovic lies in the hospital, unaware her son is dead.

Nermin was shot in the head Friday by a Bosnian Serb sniper as he sprinted across an exposed area of Sarajevo-s notorious “Sniper Alley.” He was among more than 1,500 children slain in the city during the 2.5 years war.

Funeral of 7-year-old Bosnian Muslim boy Nermin Divovic. Father Paso Divovic, soldier defending Sarajevo, attended the funeral of his son. (Bosnian Genocide)

Sokolovic, 31, was wounded by the same bullet that killed her son. “She doesn’t know about her child,” said Mediha Smajlic, a nurse at Kosevo Hospital, where the mother was recovering Saturday.

“Everybody’s coming here, but nobody’s telling her anything,” the nurse said.

Neighbors said Nermin’s father Pasa Divovic had been told of the death and was rushing back to Sarajevo from the front in central Bosnia, where he is serving with the Bosnian army.

Sokolovic and her children were returning home from her mother-in-law’s house when Nermin was killed.

Neighbors said Nermin was a “cute and clever” child who did not want to leave his grandmother’s home, where he had been playing, and asked his mother to let him stay.

But she insisted.

“He was crying as if he knew,” said neighbor Emira Vasijevic. “He said, ‘I don’t want to go, I don’t want to go. Let me play.’”

So far we have recieved 5 donations totaling $170 we are over 1/3 way to funding this project!