YMCA in Kosovo Blog

I am Martin part of GWY team in Gjakova. Yesterday I visited YMCA Kolleg in and YMCA University in Kassel, Germany. Also I had some meeting with officers in YMCA Germany. It was a pleasure to see students learning on an institute of real education, spirit and physical preparation. I hope soon people from GWY will have the opportunity to join schools like this one in a short future. It is so important to break the ice of communication and one day to have some cooperation. Greetings from Burgdorf, Germany!

Hi everybody ! My name is Arber Beqiri and I am a board member in my local YWCA-YMCA in Västerås ,Sweden. I work mostly with art programs within the YMCA, like Street art, graffiti and screen printing but I am also in charge of the web administration and the graphic design production for the organization. I meet Adrian at the General Assembly in Manchester and I was amazed of what a great job you guys were doing in Kosovo. I was born in Kosovo, Mitrovica but I've lived mostly outside the country, I did not really know that there was a YMCA in Kosovo until I meet Adrian at the GA, but now I know and I would love to keep in touch with you guys. I would love to blog sometimes about what we are doing here in Sweden, because I feel that in that way we can inspire and motivate each other in the best way . I will take part in the festival in Prague this year, so I look forward to meet some of you there ! Blessings, Arber

Posted on Behalf of Orbis. Hello My dear YMCA family. I’m Orbis Rexha and I’m a volunteer at the YMCA in Kosovo . I had the chance to be a participant of The training Named “Fighting youth unemployment through empowerment” in Macedonia.  It was a great experience for me especially getting to know new people from different cultures and breaking down all kinds of stereotypes. The other participants were from all over Balkans and Europe so the diversity was big but when we started to work together we became one!  The Program was great at first we learned theory but we had the chance to express ourselves later on and did much research and practice. The trainers were great and very flexible ,tolerant and very professional. It was a little bit sad that none of the participants and even the trainers didn't know what YMCA is or anything about it , but that gave me the great pleasure of telling them about our Family and our great work that we do and ...

Welcome! The George Williams Youth Association is the YMCA in Kosovo! Here on this blog we will have testimonies and stories from staff, trustees, volunteers and young people. We will try and capture our projects and International experiences.  We are always looking for friends and participants to blog to all our friends in Kosovo and around the world so if you feel you have something to contribute please get in touch! The blog will at times contain thoughts and feelings of individuals and service users and do not necessarily express the organisation or the further movements position or stance. Please try and respect peoples writing and any comments should be positive and add value to whats written. This blog was created for us to share our learning, journey and experiences as we journey together. TOGETHER WE ARE YMCA