TheIdeasPartnership.org

Welcome

to the Ideas Partnership, stimulating and supporting educational, cultural and sustainability projects in Kosovo, without political or religious affiliation.

The site offers you information about our partnership and our projects, including the catch-up classes that have got children from the Roma/Ashkali community of Fushë Kosovë Municipality into mainstream school.

Two good things this month. Firstly, we won a grant from KFOS to implement our project aiming at 'Reducing the effects of the economical crisis by giving access to income generating activities and by improving employability'. Thanks to this we've just recruited three Kosovars to manage the donations of clothes we receive and establish a local 'social shop', to manage the soap-making micro-finance project, and to market the soaps and handmade cloth bags.

And secondly, thanks to the generosity of friends and family from around the world, our team of volunteers and supporters who ran in the Prishtina Half Marathon have so far raised nearly 4,000 euros for things like our community advocate, healthy snacks for under-nourished children attending our weekend classes, and our campaigns against plastic bags. Thank you very very much - to those who reached into their stamina, and those who reached into their pockets. If you'd still like to donate a little something, please use the easy paypal button at the bottom here.

Meanwhile, our local hand-made soaps, produced by the women of Fushë Kosovë's Neighbourhood29 in our micro-finance project, are starting to attract a lot of interest in Kosovo and abroad. The soaps, olive oil-based and scented with essential oils, are the ideal gift.

Another micro-finance project is producing these very smart Kosovo flag bags. And we've still some of the 'love' greetings cards, using pictures taken by children in our Neighbourhood29 project. Have a closer look at the photos over to the right here, and then just e-mail us at theideaspartnership@gmail.com.

The site will continue to develop. For now, please contact us at theideaspartnership@gmail.com if you'd like to get involved or learn a little more. You can also come along with us on facebook.

You can also use the magic of paypal to...

- in which case we'd be most grateful. Anything you can give will go directly and completely to good causes in Kosovo.

(If you want to see the lengths some people are prepared to go to to help, have a look at the three wild men planning a midlife kayak around Britain. Amazing people; amazing ideas.)