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What we did Old News The Balkan Sunflowers Summer Program 
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The Balkan Sunflowers Summer Program started on 21 June, with a two week training program. The Summer Program aims both to provide a fun and engaging program to some 500 children from some of Kosovo’s most disadvantaged communities.
It is also is designed to include continued practice in language and math and other school subjects, so children will continue to learn during the summer months, and not fall back in their school performance. Seventy-five staff and volunteers are taking part in the training being held at the Fushe Kosova Learning Center. Education Coordinator Joanna Brucker and Assistant Coordinator Petrit Bejdoni have been working 16 hour days for weeks preparing. (They may ask why we understate the preparation time.) They have been assisted in preparation by the Center Coordinators, by trainers who are participating in the two week training, translators, and other BSF staff. The Summer Program is launching a new concept – Theme Weeks. Each week will focus on a different theme: Puppets and People, Paint the World Around Us, From Outer Space to Home, Exploration of the Natural World Around Us, Mapping the World Around Me, and Stomp Out that Beat. Each week will integrate language, math, arts, science into the exploration, to make living and vital to children that the subjects in school can (and should) be relevant to everything around us in daily life. Over the six weeks of the program kids will participate in some 85 activities, which are detailed in the curriculum plan, which will be available soon in three languages on this website. This will also help staff and volunteers become much more experienced implementing activities from our activity library, which will help make activities throughout the year more interactive and interesting for children. The Learning Centers is currently supported by the Sunshine Lady Foundation, UNICEF, the Office of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Royal Norwegian Embassy, and the Alan and Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust. The Summer Program is receiving special funding from the Austrian Development Agency and the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (a Soros Foundation). |
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