Balkan Sunflowers - Volunteers for Social Reconstruction

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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 current projects are: the Learning Centers Network, Never Back Home video project, The Rolling Film Festival 2010, and support to minority broadcasting in Kosovo. 

Recent projects include Changemakers 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.

 
 

Newsflash

Mubarak Awad
Mubarak Awad is internationally renowned as a leader, an activist, a passionate advocate of non-violence, and as a tireless worker for children and youth. Born in Jerusalem in 1943, Dr. Awad, a Palestinian-American, teaches in the department of International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University. He is the founder and President of Nonviolence International (http://nonviolenceinternational.net) and founder and retired director of the National Youth Advocacy Program (www.nyap.org).
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Showcasing films
made by & about Roma

Prishtina, 2010
2nd Edition dates to be announced