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Refugee Charity Scoops Bumper Lottery Grant
A Brent-based refugee charity has been awarded nearly £500,000 from the National Lottery, enabling it to continue its good work for the next four years.
The Bosnia and Herzegovina Advice Centre, in Willesden, was given the Big Lottery grant just three days before an earlier grant was due to expire.
It will now carry on supporting victims of the Balkans war who fled to London in the 1990s.
The charity's spokesman said: "This is an exceptionally large Lottery grant for a single organisation and reflects the good work we have already been doing."
The charity offers refugees an interpretation service, welfare and legal advice and runs a weekly social club and stress-reducing yoga classes.
It has also set up a 24-hour helpline for the brorough's Bosnian community.
"It is such good news that we are able to continue," said project manager Sadida Trozic.
"The project will now mean we can help many more people and although they came from communities that were on opposite sides on the conflict they are all victims of war. Many were victims of torture and rape in concentration camps and witnessed friends and loved ones being killed."
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