The Lions Club of Bosnia and Herzegovina has, together with the Lions UK and the British Isles, donated 21 utility disinfection totems, worth 18,000 Bosnian Marks, to Bosnia to help the country in the fight against COVID-19.

The totems will be distributed to various health institutions across the country as well as to institutions working with the most vulnerable population.

“We felt obliged to react in these difficult times and to help and alleviate the work of those on the front line of defence against COVID-19, according to our capabilities,” Bosnia’s First Female Lions Club said, adding that this is the second time the Lions helped the country in the battle against the coronavirus.

“We donated protective equipment worth $ 10,000 to health centres in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Tuzla and Kiseljak in May,” it said.

The Lions of Bosnia and Herzegovina is part of the Lions International humanitarian organisation which is more than a century old and has more than 1,4 million members in 48,000 clubs across more than 210 countries of the world.

“All funds raised are intended for the implementation of projects that we support because the administration of this global organization is covered by our modest membership fee. We also have our youth, Leo clubs,” the organisation said.

There are five clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the First Female Lions Club, the Lions club Sarajevo Center, the Lions club ‘Olimpijski grad’, the Lions club Tuzla and the Lions club Banjaluka Centar.

The organisation has a long history of donations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

“Every year we donate the necessary equipment for their members to the Association of the Blind people. We equipped the library for the blind in Sarajevo, built a house for people with disabilities in Pazaric, equipped three apartments for people with disabilities in the Sumero Center, participated in helping flooded areas in 2014 and donated medical equipment worth $ 50,000 to the Health Center in Maglaj after the floods,” the club said.

“Our latest activity was the purchase of vans with medical equipment for the Association ‘Heart for Kids with Cancer’ worth almost 90,000 Bosnian Marks. It is difficult to list all the humanitarian actions we organized during these 20 years of our activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” it said.