poverty

Left to wander the streets

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.

A dream cut short

We will spend the next 10 years working to repair the damage that has been done over the last 10 years.

After PISA, a rural Kosovo school faces a new curriculum and the smell of bean stew

While the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology promotes a new teaching methodology, schools in Kosovo are faced with more basic challenges.

Insufficient growth

If economic growth in the region had been the only criterion for a successful government, then we should have never changed governments to begin with.

Kosovo’s poor future

Almost one third of Kosovo’s population live in relative poverty, but it is the society at large that suffers the effects of a dwindling labor market and governmental policies that favor asphalt over health and education.


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