Week of Women 2015

 My name is Adelina Qarri, and I’m very happy to be part of the international organization YMCA, empowering youth all over the world.  My role is to coordinate the program called Y Women/Man with the project focusing on gender equality. The project also helps youth to continue education and take leadership roles in order to promote new standards for gender equality in our society that it is still patriarchal.

Adelina at Week of Women 2015
 During the 23rd-27th March of 2015 I was part of the training held by NDI Kosovo called Week of Women. It was a great experience for me knowing and sharing our stories with one hundred women from Kosovo coming from different sectors.

Panel of experts

The theme of this year’s week of women was Rule of Law, with panel discussions on different themes like domestic violence, corruption, women in security sector, and most important sexual victims from the last war in Kosovo. We learned a lot from the stories of power woman from Kosovo that beside barriers, threats and stereotypes woman from the Security Sector, Media, Public and Private sectors, Politics and Civil Society fight for their rights, they are successful, and most importantly being role models for younger generations.

The best parts of this week were also the trainings; public speaking, how to remove the stress, and how to be able to talk in front of the public with confidence and also important tips for body language in public from Pamela Hart.
There was training about vision, progress, how to identify our goals, finding time and courage to follow the path to achieve those goals by Shannon O Connell.
Also we had a training for social media, how to use properly social media to achieve our goals and to improve and promote our work from Valon Canhasi.

CEO Dorina Lluka, President Besnik Leka & Adelina

This week was incredible, I was able to present our work that we do in GWY/YMCA with the youth, helping the young people being leaders in our society, and especially empowering young women and promoting gender equality among society.

I will finish this blog showing to young girls that whatever obstacles that you deal with during your road to success never give up, because those obstacles will make you stronger and powerful, fight for your rights, desires and career.

 “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
 Luckily this is not difficult”.  (Charlotte Whitton) 



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