In March we got informed that the Swiss confederation is supporting our farm / working place for handicapped people. 8 people with special needs and one member of the Roma minority are working on our farm. We have goats and chicken and produce different goat cheese. With this great help, we could build one traditional corn silo, a terrace for our farmworkers, and bought 20…
German and Italian Kfor soldiers together with the military pastor Matthias Spikermann visited Diakonie Training Center in Mitrovica on 18 June 2021. The German protestant military services are supporting the work of Diakonie Youth Center for years! The soldiers visiting the training for cooks.
After 5 months of training we had the final test for the trainees of our cooking class. The test was held on 13.07.2021 in Diakonie Training Center in Mitrovica. As we did before we have invited examiners from outside to control and to test the dishes from our students. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms Gervalla-Schwarz, German Ambassador Mr. Jörn Rohde, the Swiss Ambassador Mr.…
Yesterday on 05.06.2021 we were honored to have the German Ambassador Jörn Rohde for a visit. Together with Ambassador Rohde, we visited most of our projects in the Diakonie Kosova. Such as the farm where the Ambassador was very impressed with our goats, chickens, and farm products. We also stopped by on some of the training at the Diakonie Training Center such as the cooking…
Psychosocial center for trauma therapy during the March and April 2021 has organized 5 days of training for children from REA (Roma, ashkali, and egypter) in the Fushë Kosova office with a topic of environment, recycling, and how to deal and handle plastic staff and other staff! The trainers were staff from the youth center who have expertise in teaching children to deal with recycling…
On 04.19.2021 we had a visit of a delegation, soldiers from the 58 German Contingent. They visited our Vocational Training Center and the Farm as a working place for the handy capped people. The Commander Colonel Mr. Bröcher overhanded a check (Donation from many Soldiers) with the amount of 1024, — €. We are very thankful to all the soldiers that contributed to our work.
Diakonie Youth Center offers time, help, and commitment to the youth of Mitrovica. Besides our regular and daily activities every Thursday we have a special time for children with special needs. In our center, we offer activities for youngers with different special needs. By these activities, we try to integrate them into the society and to make them more friendly with others and to learn…
The Catholic Church in Zürich supports our farm The Catholic Church in Zürich, Wollishofen for about one year organized different activities to collect money for the Diakonie Kosova. Particularly they wanted to support our farm because there are eight handicapped colleagues still working. The church was able to collect 12,929.91€. The headquarters of the Catholic Churches in Zürich (Stadt Kirchenverband – Church Association of the…
Visit from Caritas in the kitchen of Diakonie Kosova On Monday, 10.11.2020 we had visitors from Caritas Austria and Caritas Kosova. They are running together one project which is called “Your Job”. The goal is to train the young people in crafts that are needed in Kosova at the moment and to bring them into the very difficult labor market of Kosovo. At the moment,…
On Monday the 17. June we had a visit from the AWO Nürnberg project in Prishtina. The Head of Department, Mrs. Martina Sommer and Project coordinator of the Kosovo office Mr. Nezir Kolgeci came to see our work in our farm/workings place for people with disabilities. They have seen the chicken and goat stables, the kitchen were we produce our cheese and then drunk a…
