Apr 01

Reflect Resilience on “Bad Habits and Physical Activity”

Lack of employment, social involvement and other possibilities continually leads young generation to end up having a reactive rather than proactive life. This way, young people are continually found in cafes. Consequently, as a social norm or because of peer pressure they are led into drinking and smoking. To be blamed for such an outcome …

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Apr 01

Reflect Resilience on “Youth Activism”

We live at a time where helping others is done for PR reasons. We live in a time where volunteering is considered a step closer to employment rather than a step closer to inner fulfilment. The time where we live is continually teaching us to look after our own self-interest, ego and dream fulfilment. Fulfilling …

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Mar 26

Awareness Training about Healthy Nutrition and Cooking Class

On 12th of March 2015, Love Your Heart team and volunteers organized a training to make students aware about the importance of Healthy Nutrition. In the beginning of this activity, Love Your Heart team gave a short presentation about Healthy Food and afterward the students had to prepare different recipes that were selected by the …

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Mar 26

First meeting with the mothers in law of the community

In the first months of the new year 2015, ADRA Albania staff was very ambitious to work on the relationship between the mothers in law of the community and their daughters in law. During the past two years the staff discovered t: This relation is formative for a whole family in the Roma culture. As …

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Jan 28

Unpacking Love!

The 18th of December 2014 was one milestone of a big journey. Over 9000 parcels from many places in Germany as well as in Austria set out for Albania to bring the message of Christmas, joy and happiness to ADRA Albania’s beneficiaries. Those are living in rural areas, in orphanages and Roma communities. On this …

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Nov 03

Encouraging individuals and communities upon their talents

Several regions, minorities, and non-conformist communities or have been suppressed throughout history. Their beliefs, background or culture have been the reasons why the majority have stopped them from receiving an essential human needs, such as food, health or educational support. Consequently, this leads several of them into trading as the main tool that would provide …

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Oct 14

Roma Community Excelling at Proactive Learning

Continually, we are bombarded with negatively connotated facts, data’s or stories about how life functions in the Roma Community. The interesting fact is that all these information is presented on such terms not by the Roma Community itself but mostly by the rest of us. We evaluate their culture and mindset upon our own expectations …

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Apr 07

Java Rome dhe Dita Botërore e Shëndetit

Për herë të parë në sheshin George W. Bush të Fushë Krujës u organizua një aktivitet kushtuar Javës Rome dhe Ditës Ndërkombëtare të Shëndetit nga organizata ADRA Albania. Ky aktivitet u zhvillua jo vetëm për të festuar kulturën Rome por edhe për të ndërgjegjësuar opinionin publik të Fushë-Krujës në lidhje me diskriminimin që komuniteti Rom …

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Jan 29

Project “Children helping children”

“Happiness is the only thing that doubles when you share it.” Albert Schweitzer During the time from the 17th to the 25th of December ADRA Albania distributed the parcels of the action “children helping children” in and around Tirana. Many parcels, packed with clothes, toys, school material, sweets and love from children in Germany and Austria arrived at …

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Dec 12

International Volunteer Day

5 December is celebrated each year as International Volunteer Day (IVD) which was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985. The aim of this day is to provide volunteer organisations and individual volunteers with the opportunity to raise the public awareness of their contributions to economic and social development at local, national and international levels. This year, …

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