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Help rebuild Fushe Kosova Kindergarten |
November 11, smoke was seen coming from the Balkan Sunflowers preschool building in Fushe Kosovo, Kosovo. Staff acted quickly using the 4 fire extinguishers that were kept around the Learning Center buildings, preventing the fire from spreading more rapidly until the municipal fire brigade arrived.
The fire had spread from a defect in the chimney to the insulation above the ceiling. Damage was contained by the staff's quick response and the fire brigade's action, the losses being restricted to the ceilings of 2 rooms, the floor of one room, carpets and wiring. Luck and the fast response prevented loss of the whole building.
Balkan Sunflowers needs to repair the building. The preschool and kindergarten programs in the building have on average 70 children attending every day. The program is disrupted. Further, we have an obligation to the owner of the building who has allowed us its rent-free use as a service to his community.
Repairs will cost Euro 3,000. Balkan Sunflowers requests donations to meet this unexpected cost. Donations can be made by credit card using the Network for Good donation button on this page, or by wire transfer or check to BSF accounts in the United States, the EU (Spain), or Kosovo. For account transfer information, please contact our fundraising officer at
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The Work Balkan Sunflowers Does |
Balkan Sunflowers is an international grassroots organisation, founded in 1999 to aid the Kosovar refugees. Volunteers from around the world saw the TV images of the war and refugee emergency. They wanted to help in ways that money could not. They believed that person-to-person contact with aid workers who came to work as friends and neighbors, might help restore community life in ways that emergency aid and political support alone could not.
Balkan Sunflowers believes that volunteers – international and local – participating in community life, crucially promotes the ideals of a caring and open society.
Balkan Sunflowers currently has two major projects: the Learning Centers Network and Great Films that Change Our World .
Balkan Sunflowers primary focus areas are Community , Human Dignity , and Children and Youth.
Balkan Sunflowers, through the support of our donors, provided more than 100,000 hot meals to children participating in our Learning Centers Network program in 2009. |
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