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| | | | | | | | | | | The Ideas Partnership was registered as an NGO in Kosovo in March 2009. Its founding members are Ardian Arifaj, Robert Wilton and myself. Our NGO works on education, environmental, cultural heritage and community support projects in Kosovo. |  | To date we have:
*supported the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian community in Fushe Kosove/ Kosovo Polje, with vaccinations, a clothing transfer and education. Meet one of these families in my article for Prishtina Insight newspaper. You can read more about beginning teaching with kids from this community out of school at www.gettinggjelanetoschool.wordpress.com.
*launched a campaign against plastic bags
*run a summer programme in Rugova, developing environmental awareness among the area's young people. The camp was organised jointly with local NGO, ERA, and the Balkan Peace Park project. Read more on page 15 of the most recent Trans-Boundary Protected Areas network newsletter.or in articles written by others about the programme in Albanian and English.
* Established a monthly Green Drinks in Pristina, to bring together civil society working on the environment
*supported the Gjakova Safe House women's shelter (for victims of trafficking and survivors of domestic violence) with materials
*donated books to the library in Mitrovica
*toured a photography exhibition showcasing Kosovo's cultural heritage (most recently displayed in the teqe in Gjakova)
*supported the micro-finance project, KosovaKards, selling greetings cards which incorporate traditional solid silver filigree made in Prizren
*launched a successful campaign to save an old konak style house in Pristina which was scheduled for demolition on the Ministry of Culture's list of protected buildings. The BBC World Service interviewed me about the Facebook campaign.and Cornerstone magazine, of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, published my article about the campaign.
*written the regular Ecosovo column in Kosovo's English language newspaper, Prishtina Insight. The column focuses on living and working green in Kosovo; recent columns have focused on the link between environmentalism and long term-ism, Kosovo's birds, and plane travel.
*worked as part of a coalition of NGOs lobbying against the dredging which is destroying the Drin i Bardh river. Watch the interview with me about the issue on Kosovo's KTV.
|  | We are currently looking for volunteers, funding and support for:
*English teaching volunteers to work on a summer programme with adults and children from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in Fushe Kosove/ Kosovo Polje just outside Pristina. The programme will run during the last two weeks of July and the first two weeks of August.
*The twinning of the Ethnological Museum in Pristina with a museum in Cambridge, England
*English clubs run by international volunteers in local schools
*A pilot project to offer a day's filigree workshop in Prizren as a tourist activity. Readers of Albanian can learn more about this in the online newspaper Fjala e Lire. There are also some great photos there showing the filigree workshop
For more information, email us at theideaspartnership@gmail.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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