There we go: the two boxes of books collected by the Prague Thriftstore (many thanks to Thomas and Barbara again, and to all those who donated their books!) traveled in the car from Prague over Bratislava-Budapest-Beograd-Kragujevac to finally make it to Kosovska Mitrovica, so I declare them the most traveled book-collection in Europe. :) Anyway, as my main mission in Kosovo this time was the elementary schools' teachers' training, I talked to my participants in order to identify the most suitable school for the collection, and I found it: it is the department of Aziz Sylejmani (Albanian) school, located in the Kodra e Minatoreve/Mikronaselje neighborhood of northern Mitrovica.
The school is not a building - it is three containers attached together and forming provisional classrooms. People: I hereby confirm that the kids (a tiny mixed class of grades 3-9) LOVED the donation as did Lirije, their English teacher and my course participant. Let's do more donations like this, I was truly moved to see how much difference can such a small collection make: apart from the books, the two small boxes carried a huge gift - the care and attention of people who have never been in Mitrovica, but who chose to support my program.
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