Hasija Sisic - Employee of the Year 2009

Hasija was born to be a nurse. But when she took a job at a mountain clinic in her native Bosnia in the late eighties, she never expected to end up leading a semi-trained staff of 24 nurses treating wounded refugees in the war that followed. With her husband injured and her son nearing recruitment age, Hasija and her family decided to escape to the United States. When she arrived, she was told she would never be able to get the credentials she needed to do her life's work in her adopted country. Undaunted, Hasija took a receptionist job at a methadone clinic while taking JVS English classes and the LVN Refresher Progam. With persistence and hard work, Hasija has achieved her dream, and now works full time as a nurse.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• JVS
• Strictly Business
• Bosnia
• nursing

[eighteye]

Congratulations Sijo!

We are very proud of you!!! You are an example how hard work and believing in yourself makes the dreams come true, no matter what others do or say to you. May good health and happiness follow you and your family. Keep dreaming big, smiling and loving what you do.

xoxoxo

Family Alisic, Dizdarevic and Mehmedic

[brkabrcko]

Hasija, svaka ti cast

cestitam ti i zelim tebi i tvojoj porodici puno uspjeha

Sisko da vise slusa jel tako

Razim

[hsisic]

thank you very much for your comment

[BoDiddley24]

Hasija is awesome. In fact, all the women I have met from Bosnia have been great. They never complain about anything that happened to them, they only worry about if they can help others. Anybody who meets them & gets to know them is lucky, thats for sure. I was lucky too, to have got support from them at a critical time- just like that woman in the video was