On Saturday, 17th April of the current year, the scholarship holders of the Hastor Foundation have symbolically commemorated the 15th anniversary of Foundation’s work. Considering that this is the first monthly meeting since the Foundation acquired 46 new scholarship holders, the meeting began with the presentation of characteristics and the mission of the Foundation itself, since its very conception up to today. The Director of the Foundation, Seid Fijuljanin, began the presentation by mentioning that on this anniversary of fifteen years, it is his pleasure and honour to return to the very beginning and once again remind everyone that the Hastor Foundation was formed with the goal of helping the youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina through education, and that the Foundation works with the same goal in mind today as well. The original desire to invest in the knowledge and education of young people, who were at that time elementary and high school students, had the aim of distributing the acquired knowledge and experience. This main idea is yielding results today. Thanks to a system designed in such a way that senior scholarship holders transfer their knowledge, experiences, and ideas to younger scholarship holders through the volunteering process, the Hastor Foundation today boasts a large number of successful young people who achieve outstanding success in all fields. This meeting was an opportunity to remind everyone through positive examples from previous years how active the Hastor Foundation scholarship holders have always been. Through volunteering, they first created and then realized numerous ideas and joint projects in their local communities.
Actions such as these have a more noble meaning considering that the scholarship holders feel an attachment to their community since their early childhood. Later, that attachment motivates them to preserve, maintain, and never leave the community. Those are only some of the specific details by which the Foundation is differentiated from other similar organizations. These were just some of the specifics by which the Hastor Foundation stands out from other similar organizations. The meeting also drew attention to the fact that fifteen years ago, the Hastor Foundation committed itself to philanthropy, working with young people and their professional and personal development. This is also expected from their scholarship holders. Among other things, the meeting discussed how the Hastor Foundation, as a unique phenomenon in our country, has always dealt with the essence, not the form. That is why, through volunteering as its most important segment, it created a network of young, ambitious and creative people. who help each other, exchange information, and thus improve our society.
Fifteen years of existence have been marked by redecorating the official website of the Hastor Foundation, which symbolically announced new goals that the Foundation seeks as the most unique organization of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond. This meeting, as one of the more special meetings for each member of the Hastor Foundation, was certainly an opportunity to emphasize once again what an honor and privilege it is to be part of this large and promising community. The scholarship holders confirmed this with positive reactions and mutual congratulations at the very end of the meeting. Feelings of pride that they are part of the Hastor Foundation family are proof that today we are looking at the realization of missions and goals conceived back in 2006.
Director Seid Fijuljanin sent an important message at the end, saying that the most important and best resource of the Hastor Foundation are its scholarship holders, and once again reminded us how important it is to strive for knowledge and success because education has always been the choice of winners.
Almina Šabanović
