We hope you will enjoy perusing the following pages and that what you see will inspire you to support our work in whatever way you can.

To begin, we invite you to read our Chairman's Review of the past year's activities or simply click the menu item you would like to view.

From the Pen of Madame Chair - A review of the past year.
As will be seen from the audited accounts for the past year, we have now capitalized our programme related assets in regard to our Bosnian projects, both of which are fully operational and proving invaluable.

Since the opening of The Miracles Centre in Mostar, almost one hundred limbs have been provided, together with the care associated with the treatment and follow-up treatment sessions. This has been funded in partnership with the International Trust Fund and La Fondation Miracles Suisse who are also funding advanced training for our Certified Prosthetics and Orthotics Technician (CPO), Nihad Subasic, and the recruitment and training of a second CPO to enable more patients to be treated. I was delighted to be able to watch Nihad at work when I visited the Centre in October with Ingrid Tissot who runs the Swiss Foundation and works so hard on behalf of the Centre.

Guests of Miracles Bosnian Mission this year have included our Treasurer, Robert Bean with his Trustee wife Anna and their son Max as well as our Founder, Theo Ellert and her husband Robert Linley-Munro, the highlight of whose trip was their visit to the Roma Community in Zenica which Theo describes later in this Review. The Roma Project is, indeed, a major triumph for Miracles with one hundred percent school attendance and all children reaching their relevant grades – thanks to the help of Aida Saric, our Project Supervisor, who coaches them in the Community Centre after school. The families are all integrating well into the surrounding community and working hard on their allotments, with their animals and keeping their homes spotless.

Another of their visitors this year was Joseph Caruso, International Ambassador for the UN Association of Western Australia, with his wife, Carolyn. Joseph has been extremely generous in his support for the Roma Project including the delivery of a huge Container of clothes and other essentials. I am delighted to report that he has now accepted an invitation to join the Miracles Board of Trustees and we look forward to welcoming him and to the benefits which he will bring to our charity.

Whilst so much is happening within Miracles Bosnia, I am happy to say that Miracles UK is still maintaining its service here at home for those in Supreme Need. This service is all the more important in the light of the alarming statistic which has recently come to our notice that the child poverty rate in this country is one in three which explains the number of requests for help we receive from breadline poverty families who have insufficient food and no money for school uniforms, trips or transport. An increased effort is being made to find additional funding for this vital work and your continued support for it will be deeply appreciated.

Finally I would like to pay tribute to Amada and Robert Maxwell who have reluctantly resigned from our Board of Trustees – but will always remain as friends. Amada’s enthusiasm and drive over the years has been a great blessing for Miracles and Robert’s business acumen was of huge benefit to our Bosnian operation. We are fortunate indeed that their places on our Board have been filled by Joseph Caruso and by Charles Hornung who will now take up the reins of The Friends of Miracles, the support group initiated by Amada in 2001.

With my warmest regards to all who read this Review. I hope you enjoy it and that you will continue to support Miracles again through another busy year ahead.
Marie-Antoinette Pereire
Chair of Miracles' Board of Trustees.