S.I.R came into being during the Bosnian conflict in 1992. Magnus and Fergus MacFarlane-Barrow ( brothers ), were so upset by some of the T V footage they started an appeal for blankets. They soon managed to collect enough blankets through donations from the public to load up a jeep and joined one of the convoys leaving the U K and delivered aid to Medjugorje in Bosnia a place where pilgrims were gathering over the years. They themselvs and their families had previously visited a few years before. They returned to Scotland believing their good deed done to go back to thier jobs as fish farmers. However when they returned they discovered the public had carried on donating aid in their absence filling thier parents' garage with goods.
Magnus gave up his job for a year to keep taking aid out for as long as the public kept donating. The public did not stop and it soon became necessary to set up a registered charity. They began to work in Romania, building homes for abandoned children, and in Liberia, helping refugees to return home by setting up mobile clinics, while still delivering material aid to Croatia and Bosnia.
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