


Students are dropping out of school, not just because of economic reasons
In the 2014/2015 school year, 45 students from the “Eqrem Çabej” gymnasium in Vushtrri dropped out of school. This school has around 1,500 students. A direct reason why all these students dropped out of school was the massive migration of the Kosovars toward western...
Only around 30 blind people have a job in Kosovo currently
Haki Ahmeti, a 57-year-old, is one of the few Kosovar citizens who has a full-time job even though he cannot see. He has been offering services as a physiotherapy technician at the General Hospital “Dr. Sami Haxhibeqiri” in Mitrovica. When he started his job as a...
Kosovar women entrepreneurship still limited to small businesses
Ilire Lepaj, a 35-year-old woman from Prishtina a year and a half ago decided to open her own store which she named “IL Art e Zanat.” In this store, which is located in the center of the city she sells different kinds of materials with traditional motifs such as...