In addition, the entire country is an economic disaster area, due to a host of factors. Therefore no legal security exists for investments. Four different currencies are in use. There is some support from the government for new companies to start up, but the infrastructure of roads, plains, trains, and other transport is still being reconstructed, and is not yet adequate. All of these adverse conditions have been very hard on Prijateljice projects in recent years.
Most citizens have no money and can no longer be consumers.
All of this got us in serious difficulty. Therefore we decided this year not to go on the market, but to operate as a relief and educational organization offering the women, now and in the future, a safe place to work, to educate themselves, to have a kind of work therapy, without being compelled to compete economically. Despite Adversity, Higher Aspirations Remain Intact Prijateljice has not, however, given up its higher aspirations. She will teach women in the project to start their own businesses. Representatives of Prijateljice will attend a conference of Italian and Bosnian women entrepreneurs, organized by the Italian group with support from the European Union.