Nov 28

Mobile Clinic for Roma, update

ADRA Albania is continuing its efforts to help the Roma community and rural village communities by providing basic medical services, medicine, and in severe cases the funds to undergo specialist treatment. Volunteer doctors and nurses, as well as dentists are coming to Albania on a regular basis to support our own medical staff. Recently, a …

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Oct 21

Adventist Church and ADRA Leaders Meet Albania’s Prime Minister

Dr Berisha meets with  leaders 02 October 2012 Tirana, Albania Julian Kastrati, tedNEWS A delegation from the Adriatic Union Conference headed by its President, Pastor Branko Bistrovic, held a courtesy meeting with Albania’s Prime Minister, Prof Dr Sali Berisha. In this visit, Pr. Bistrovic was accompanied by Pr. Sretko Kuburic, AUC Executive Secretary, Dr Dragutin Matak, …

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Oct 10

ADRA Albania Launches Literacy and Integration Centre for Roma

02 October 2012 Fushe-Kruje, Albania Lydia Weidner, tedNEWS ADRA Albania has successfully launched the “Reflect! Act! Integrate” Training Centre in Fushe-Kruje, 25 km from Albania’s capital, Tirana. Kindly sponsored by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Austria, the projects aims to combat illiteracy among the largely marginalised Roma populations. …

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Jul 24

ADRA Albania and Adventist Church Leaders Meet Albania’s Minister of Culture

  18 June 2012 Tirana, Albania Julian Kastrati, tedNEWS Dr Bertil Wiklander, the President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Trans-European Division, held an official meeting with the Honorable Mr. Aldo Bumçi, MP, Minister of Tourism, Culture, Youth and Sports in Albania. He was accompanied by Dr Reinder Bruinsma, President of the Seventh-day Adventist …

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Apr 30

Medical Volunteers from Slovenia and Croatia

We would like to welcome Slovenian and Croatian health volunteers to Albania.  For almost a week now Olga Popov from ADRA Slovenia has been amongst our ranks.  She has been helping out with some of our projects and spent the night up in Zall Bastar in order to get everything ready for the larger team that …

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Apr 24

The Finnish come to Albania

This past month ADRA hosted a group of Finnish high school students and their parents for a brief period of six days.  Though their stay here was very brief we tried to maximize their time with events in different areas that ADRA is working in. During their week here in Albania they worked in three …

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Mar 29

Busy Month with Volunteers

The last few weeks here at ADRA have been busy ones. We have received visits from ADRA France and Rio Lindo Academy and next week we will welcome volunteers from ADRA Finland. With all these visitors coming and going our office has been in constant motion with activates at Ramazan Kabashi School for the blind, …

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Feb 08

Unloading the Love

As a volunteer here at ADRA Albania I have learned to expect the unexpected, which is why an afternoon call from our director on a cold rainy day at the end of the week did not surprise me. We had been waiting for the packages to clear customs for weeks and of course the day …

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Jan 16

Thank You for All Your Wonderful Support!

We hope you had a special holiday season! This Christmas season has come and gone but children around Albania are still happy thanks to the over 9,000 parcels that were donated by ADRA Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. We would like to give a special thanks to all of the families that helped make …

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Oct 26

We are pleased to announce to you that ADRA Albania will take part in the Healthcare, Medical and Pharmaceutical EXPO on October 31st – November 2nd at the Sheraton Hotel, Tirana. You are invited to join us these three days ! This is a great opportunity to come and learn more about our health and …

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