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Every year, hundreds of children in Kosovo abandon their education in order to earn money and help make ends meet for their family.
Up to 1,000 businesses are estimated to have closed in Kosovo in 2020, leaving many Kosovars counting the cost of the COVID-19 crisis as unemployment soars.
Every day of the week, people at markets up and down the country are doing what they can to keep poverty at bay, their hopes often reliant on a wheelbarrow.
Despite Drenica’s reputation for receiving specialist treatment due to it being the birthplace of several of Kosovo’s leaders over the past decade, many of its residents still live in difficult conditions and look to emigration to escape poverty and unemployment.
Parents or guardians of mentally ill people in Kosovo face a tough decision – place their children in sub-standard institutional care, or leave them to roam around alone, and possibly come to harm.
