SANELA DIANA JENKINS
After years of hard work, Sanela Diana Jenkins achieved business success that enabled her to help her homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The injustice inflicted on her homeland only reinforced Sanela's determination to help the anguished population. Her deeds describe Sanela Diana Jenkins as a staunch fighter for human rights, an ambassador for peace of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a proponent of humanism and a philanthropist.
Sanela Diana Jenkins was born in Sarajevo and she was a young student in the time of the outbreak of agression on Bosnia and Herzegovina. The escalation of fighting forced Sanela to flee from her country. She arrived to London through Croatia, where she attended the City University of London and completed her computer science. When she was in her final year of study at the City University of London, Sanela founded D-Sol System Limited, the company whose main activity is in the domain of finance, with the focus on investing into companies during crises situations. At a later time, Sanela began to pursue, in her capacity as the managing director of the Company, profit generating businesses in the world of fashion, film and food industries.
Despite having achieved success on the respective markets of the United States of America and Europe, Sanela remained attached to her country and determined in pursuing her intent on, as she herself says, «recovering a smile on the sick children's and elderlies' faces». In pursuit of her intent, at the beginning of 2003, Sanela established the Irnis Ćatić Foundation headquartered in Sarajevo (in memory of her brother who was killed in 1995 at the age of 21 in the war for bringing freedom to Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Foundation, which has undergone name change to Sanela Jenkins for BiH Foundation (in memory of Irnis Ćatić) recently, provides assistance to the sick children of Bosnia and Herzegovina, hospitals, destitutes, returnees and refugees, schools and other educational institutions. The Foundation is also an instrument through which the overall assistance is provided to the orphanages and SOS Children's Villages.
A certain portion of funds is appropriated for the projects of restoring Bosnian polluted lakes, river beds and polluted areas. The Sanela Jenkins for BiH Foundation (in memory of Irnis Ćatić) is one of the most renowned private humanitarian organizations in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the continued lobbying in political, econmic and cultural milieus for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sanela established the International Justice Centre in August, 2008, located at UCLA, Los Angeles, today known as Diana Jenkins Clinic for International Justice. This Foundation, to which she provided a $4 million endowment, seeks to bring to trial all war criminals from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans.
Albeit Bosnia and Herzegovina takes first place on Sanela's list of priorities, this worldly known philanthropist fights for peace and provides assistance in other parts of the world. She took part in funding large humanitarian projects intended to help the people of Darfur, together with celebrities from the music and film industry, including George Clooney, Bono Vox, Mat Damon, Jerry Weintraub, Cindy Crawford and others.
Sanela Diana Jenkins lives in California, London and Sarajevo.
