PLAY International Kosovo

Partnering with The Ideas Partnership This month we have been thinking quite a bit about our partners and the importance of partnerships to our mission as an organization. As we mentioned in our post “ living up to our principles ” on 5 October, working as a collective is the only way we can make a lasting and deep impact on people’s lives. So we thought that we would have a closer look at a partner PLAY has been working with in Kosovo for almost 10 years now: The Ideas Partnership or TIP. PLAY's 20th Anniversary celebration in October 2019 was also a chance to celebrate our partnership with TIP and others As an organization, TIP is a great showcase for the benefits of a sport for development approach. One of its areas of work involves running Learning Centers to provide education, health, welfare and other services to vulnerable children and their families. With these core activities taking place in a central location inside communities in Fushë Kosovë / Kosovo Polje and Janjevë

[Regional Partnerships] Creating change and having a genuine impact on people’s lives is no small thing to achieve. This is why one of the core principles of PLAY’s work is a recognition that in order to make a real difference, we need to work as a collective. Joining our efforts to the work of others in effective partnerships is therefore one of the most important things we can do to create sustainable solutions to society’s challenges.   PLAY's 20th anniversary in 2019 was an opportunity to reflect on the past and the fu ture In 2019, PLAY celebrated its 20th anniversary. In Kosovo, this gave us a chance to both reflect on our achievements and look towards the future and how our work can have even more impact. One of the results of this was a determination to build new, long-term partnerships around the Western Balkans. These partnerships will not be based on implementing a single, donor-funded project, but long-term collaborations to bring sustainability and sustained energy to