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.
For us the biggest miracle of all this year was the opening of the Miracles Centre for Prosthesis and Care on the outskirts of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I was fortunate enough to visit it twice during the year: once with a group of our Spanish supporters during a pilgrimage to Medjugorje and again with my son, Francois, a young movie-maker who has produced for us a short film on both the Centre and its patients and our other great Bosnian enterprise, the Roma Housing and Education Project in Zenica.

Both of our Bosnian projects are attracting a good deal of attention especially as a result of the free advertisements we have been given in the Financial Times and other international publications. The Prosthesis Centre is the sole beneficiary of our new Swiss Foundation: La Fondation Miracles in Geneva which came into being in September 2008 and whose first major fundraiser took place in November.

Although our Bosnian projects have been the main focus of our attention this year we have still tried hard to answer the many calls we continue to receive from aid agencies seeking urgent help with cases here at home – particularly for families with terminally sick children and old people who have no-one else to turn to. In this respect we are now planning a major campaign to raise awareness and funds here at home so that our UK Crisis work can continue and increase. We hope that this will attract the same generous level of support as that shown to our work in Bosnia.

In April we were very sad to accept the resignation of Dr. Robert Hancock after a long and loyal Trusteeship with Miracles. His generosity and support have been a great asset over the years and we wish him the greatest success with his important work in Kasakhstan. It is always sad to say goodbye although once a friend of Miracles, always a friend so in fact it is only ‘au revoir’!

Finally I would like to pay tribute to my fellow Trustees and those who keep the wheels of Miracles oiled and smoothly running. Without their help we could achieve nothing but with YOUR support as well, the year ahead will bring even more and greater success in easing the suffering of those who so desperately need our help.

Marie-Antoinette Pereire
Chair of Miracles' Board of Trustees.