A baby boy born a few days ago in an ambulance of the Sarajevo Canton, named Alan, after treatment at the Pediatric Clinic of the Sarajevo University Hospital, was released home and is in excellent health. His parents, empowered by the birth of a child and the kindness that unexpectedly came into their lives and provided them with a warm refuge - are looking for a new home and a job for Alan's father.

The traffic jam in Sarajevo is during the day, but one baby in the mother's womb was waiting for the night. The baby gave first signs that he wanted to come to this world in a cold apartment without electricity, heating and basic living conditions.

“We approached the apartment, turned on the torches on our phones to see what's going on … the power was out, and to make matters worse she was all tucked in, covered with blankets because there was no heating in that apartment,” said Dino Mahmutovic, from Sarajevo Emergency Service.

The ambulance team was fast, but it turned out that Alan was both faster and more impatient. He was brave enough to be born in an ambulance, and then spend the first days of his life in the hospital, without his mother. The next meeting with her, however, was not in a cold dark room where he knocked on the door of life, he was in the cold Sarajevo air, where the whole story regarding the cold seems to end…

“I am absolutely overjoyed, I don't have grandchildren yet, so he's like a little grandchild to me,” Vesna Bogunovic told N1.

A time of the pandemic, distancing, job loss, no income, a time of mistrust, and in that time a man – a woman who, after the ambulance worker's statement, is looking for the baby's parents, people she does not know because she believes that no child deserves to spend the first days of its life in a cold and dark room. She finds them in conditions unworthy of a man, initiates a humanitarian action, seeks an apartment with them, encounters landlords who do not want to accept unemployed parents or raise the price of rent due to the fact that they have a baby, and then decides to give them her own home until they get a job and find a better apartment.

“I am really happy and overjoyed that he (Alan) will spend the first night of his life outside the hospital in my home and from now on the door of my home is always open to him,” Bogunovic said.

When asked how come she trusted these strangers, Bogunovic said it is her choice to trust people.

“Between trust and distrust, I choose to trust. No reason, they are young people, I have two children who are little older than them, therefore they are like children to me. I hope that with the baby's arrival their happiness and destiny will turn for the better and that Emir (the father) will find a job. I want to thank the Facebook group ‘Sarajke’ whose members have given selfless support,” said the benefactress.

I graduated from the construction school -pottery, I do construction work, I smooth, paint, try to make a living the best I can, my child came, I have to get by the best I can,” Alan's father, Emir Krasnic told N1.

Mother Amra, grateful for the unexpected happy circumstances, believes that everything will be fine. She remembers giving birth in an ambulance. Her boy chose a symbolic location to get into this world. A spectacular birth maybe an introduction to spectacular goals of a future football player.

“He was born in the Sarajevo neighbourhood of Grbavica, home to Zeljeznicar football club – next to the stadium. I was scared of birth. I told them I couldn't hold it any longer, I’m going into labour. They told me to push and that they could see his little head. I pushed twice and he was right out, crying. I nursed him until we got to the Pediatric Clinic. Now I’m the happiest mother in the world, I’m holding my baby in my arms,” Amra told N1.

They made a toast to Alan, to a life that brought new hope and happiness, to a world where people still live with a heart that doesn’t keep their distance. These people shine in today’s greyness like pre-holiday lights, celebrating the birth and reminding us that we may not always be able to help those hardest hit, but that we must help those whom we can, who came into our lives one way or the other.