SpeedQueen in Bosnia and Herzegovina
An Englishman in the Balkans di In this podcast, you'll get a unique look at life in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the eyes of an immigrant.
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Between 2002 and 2004, a successful Club in Leeds UK, called SpeedQueen, temporarily set up in the north west of Bosnia and Herzegovina to bring a new experience to the youth of the area.NATO at that time had a byline for their operation. It was “Mir i Tolerancija”, or “Peace and Tolerance”SpeedQueen however, really hit the mark with youth audiences with their “Harmonija I Fantazija” or “Harmony and Fantasy”.This podcast starts to tell that story.
I think one of the biggest experiences that we had was, we got asked by NATO, by the Stabilisation Force– if we would go and work in Bosnia, because, there was a guy there in the British Army who read about the kind of work we were doing in Leeds, in terms of integration. And he’d started a program to try and integrate the young displaced people after the war because there'd been this huge gen ...