YMCA in Kosovo Blog

To be honest, I had never heard about SDG’s or anything like this in my life. The reason why I wanted to be a part of this training was that I knew that the YMCA has always something valuable to tell us, something we would need through our entire lives...   And I wasn’t wrong! Diona and other participants on SDG training The first day of the training was a little bit confusing for me because we talked about things I     never heard before. However, I did not regret even a second of joining, because I knew from the beginning that the time that I would spend there it would be precious and interesting. SDG training had something that everyone could relate to or think about but the topics are huge and this meant our groups sometimes didn’t know how to express themselves or how to see things from a different viewpoint. In this project, we found a place where we could speak openly or what we thought about the different sustainable development topics in the world and...

The SDGs are a collection of 17 goals set by the United Nations. The broad goals interrelated but each one has its own targets to achieve!! The total number of targets is 169. SDGs cover a broad range of social and economic development issues. These include: poverty, hunger, health, education, climate, change, gender equality, energy, urbanization, environment and social justice. The SDGs are also knows as 'worlds transformation in 2030'. In YMCA we promote SDGs whith a focus on SDG 4 within Kosovo. This project is training over 60 young people with a specially curriculum in Peja & Gjakova. We were trained about three months. Where we did various activities about SDG 4. Then we separated the goals in the cities of Kosovo where we thought we should work harder to achieve these goals But we are focused more on SDG 4 that is Quality Education. We all gave our ideas about how we are going to achieve this goal till 2030. Rina during her SDG 4 trai...

My name is Lira Shabi ,I’m 19 years old and I come from Peja, I joined Y MCA 3 years ago and I’ve been part of Leadership training also I’ve been a peer trainer and an Youth ambassador. Lira during her SDG Training After hearing that there will be another training in my city about SDG   I was very happy because , I would be even more engaged in YMCA. I have   the right to say that I haven’t heard about SDGs before and about their function in the world . After my training, I was filled with a lot of knowledge about the goals of United Nations to stabilize the world in different aspects and in many areas. Each of the areas of the SDG has it’s importance. During the training we focused more on the education field because it is one of the main problems affecting the Kosovo state because of the results shown in the research conducted by Pisa also a lot of illiteracy in Kosovo. Training was done in different ways and  it  was very creative, those things made ...