Hero British mum saved 21 children fleeing war-torn hell in Bosnian homeland
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mirror.co.ukWhen Clare Findlay saw horrific images on the news of children sheltering from gunfire in wartorn Bosnia, she knew she had to help.
The mum of five answered a newspaper ad from a charity seeking British foster parents to take in child refugees. Clare and husband Andrew agreed to take two.
And days later they arrived... accompanied by a further 23 desperate refugees. The tearful party of 21 children and four mothers were still shaken up from a seven-hour flight on a single-engined, seatless aircraft from Split, Croatia – followed by a 12-hour coach journey from Gatwick.
It was 1992 and they had fled a civil war which displaced thousands of children. Many had trekked 15 miles to escape their homes, walking past a bloodied river
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