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ZENICA -- Since mid-July, tens of thousands of people have fled the United Nations "safe havens" of Srebrenica and Zepa in eastern Bosnia.
Zepa was captured by Bosnian Serbs on July 19, just eight days after Srebrenica fell. The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) was asked by the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees to immediately prepare sanitation facilities for the additional 5,000 to 10,000 refugees expected to arrive in the Zenica area.
UMCOR also is working to create additional housing and meet other needs of the displaced, according to agency staff members there.
Donations to support UMCOR's extensive work in Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia can be made through UMCOR Advance No. 333350-1.
July, 1995