PLAY International Kosovo

  Hello, everyone! The streets up to our office know quite well the noise created by the bicycle 🚴, which is how he travels to work almost every day, while our office knows him for his always smiling 😃 face and his hairstyle resembling James Dean 👦. This time you will have the opportunity to meet him. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Drilon Bajrami! Drilon joined PLAY this March as an Admin/Finance assistant. He plays a supporting role for the mission’s finance manager and logistician to ensure that PLAY’s accounting records and financial processes and procedures are done successfully.   Drilon loves sports, and when we asked him what he thinks about his job he said: I like being part of a multicultural organization which promotes sports as way of improving education and works toward social change. This is my first time working on projects of this scale, and it has been challenging so far considering the circumstances in which I started working but with the help of the staff, ...

  How Has Lack of Physical Activity Affected  Children During Quarantine? Gent Bislimi - Swimming Coach The  COVID-19  pandemic is an unprecedented time all across the world. With the Kosovo government's decision to close the schools in March, and people staying at home, means that people have far fewer opportunities to be physically active, as all of outdoor activities were restricted. These drastic measures and physical inactivity have impacted the health and mental well-being of people. However, children, the most fragile group, have been affected the most during the months of quarantine. Their physical and mental health experienced negative changes: some of them have gained weight, while most of them have been very sad and more aggressive during “stay at home” times.  That is why PLAY has interviewed parents and children to understand how exactly the past few months have affected them. Children in a preschool class play while wearing facemasks. (Chava S...

  Hello everyone! As promised last week, we start the presentation of our team with one of the biggest personalities at PLAY. You can’t miss him at a height of 1.95 meters – this week it is Senad Ramani! 📣 This 26 year-old Kosovar-Bosniak has been our Sport4Youth Project Coordinator for two years now. That means he recruits, trains and coordinates activities and seminars with the youth volunteers of our Sport4Youth project. As you can see in his second picture he is always ready to have fun! And, as his sense of humor does not stop him from being professional, between two jokes we asked him what he likes about his job:  “I like working with young people from different communities, especially seeing their development as volunteers from the recruitment to the ceremony of certificates. I also love seeing them doing an extraordinary job on the field in their localities. Being from a minority community, it means a lot that my job enables me to turn my life experience into a usefu...