PLAY International Kosovo

Milijana Ilic is a young, motivated girl that lives in Lepine, a village near Lipjan and currently, she is in the second year of Medicine High School. In her free time, she enjoys artistic activities like acting and her hobby is roller-skating. It is the first time she is participating in activity from an NGO, and she decided to participate in this training because she likes socializing and meeting new people. Milijana expressed that she liked every bit of the training and her time there made her feel at home. She finds this feeling mesmerizing, and her time exceeded the expectations she had before starting the training.  “ Every activity was interesting. I am so happy to have met so many people from different communities, it feels like I have known them for 10 years… I never noticed any prejudice because I come from Serbian community in Kosovo or any prejudice for whomever.” When asked about the games and what was her favorite part, she states that she liked that every game had a part

It has been almost a year since Irfan Mustafa – Fani is part of the nonformal education training from PLAY international. Fani is a very motivated 19 years old boy from a small village called Plemetina in Obiliq. He has finished Medicine High School and he is currently doing an internship at a local hospital. He is waiting to be certified to be a nurse and one day he aims to be a doctor. Fani is motivated to participate in PLAY activities to help other vulnerable people, especially children from his community. He expresses a great motivation to change the mindset of children in the Roma community especially in the regard of school dropout. “I hope one day my community, Roma community, grows out of this situation of financial instability and lack of education. For this, we must be willing to work with one another, especially to educate children.” Another thing that bothers Irfan, is the situation of young women within the Roma community. He expresses that he feels resentful that gi