Events

24 youngsters receive self-employment support from the municipalities of Gjilan, Viti, Kacanik and Hani i Elezit who have been selected as grantees under the USAID EMPOWER Private Sector self-employment program.
Their selection follows the successful completion of a training program aimed at equipping 200 youngsters from the aforementioned municipalities with business-oriented skills from which 79 received grants in the form of equipment.
The program is funded by USAID Empower Private Sector, in partnership with Sida – Styrelsen for Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete, and implemented by Help Kosovo, including co-financing provision by partner municipalities in the project.

Isabelle Sommer, Project Officer from the Medicor Foundation is visiting Kosovo these days. Help Kosovo has welcomed her and accompanied on field visits to Help clients over the years from various cities in Kosovo. She was accompanied on the field by the Country Director of Help Kosovo, Shqipe Breznica and monitoring officer Valon Hyseni.

Balkan Women Association (BWA) which is aiming to enable the diversification of knowledge, experiences, models and initiatives from six Balkan countries to foster women entrepreneurship is currently implementing their first joint project “Women Book”, powered by Western Balkans Fund and co-funded by Help – Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe.

“WOMEN BOOK” is a book-making activity that contains the portfolios of 60 women from these 6 countries, more precisely 10 women entrepreneurs from each country representing their own personal business story. The beauty of this book is practically its diversity, as it presents businesses from different sectors run by women of different ethnic backgrounds.

On 28.08.2019, Help signed a cooperation agreement with the Municipality of Prishtina to support of at least 30 micro businesses for 2020.

Help Kosovo has supported the High Security Prison in Dyz, with equipment for laying epoxy floors.

Through this project, it is aimed at influencing the rehabilitation and re-socialization of prisoners in the framework of the project “Supporting Socio-Economic Stability in the Western Balkan Region 2019-2020”.

Today, on 11.07.2019, Help signed a cooperation agreement with the Municipality of Gjakova to support of at least 30 micro businesses for 2020.

The Mayor, Mr. Ardian Gjini was pleased to reach this agreement with Help, and also expressed readiness for the successful implementation of the project.

The Country Director of Help, Shqipe Breznica encouraged citizens to follow the activities of Help Organization and take advantage of this opportunity to develop their businesses or to open a start-up.

After this agreement Help will continue with the information sessions for citizens of Gjakova in early 2020 where everyone will be notified about the application procedures.

Successful completion of the “Business Administration in Kosovo” training for selected clients for the grant scheme within the “Support for Socio-Economic Stability in the Western Balkans 2019-2020” project.

The training was organized for the clients of the municipalities with which Help has a cooperation agreement during 2019.

In Obiliq were trained and certified 30 clients, in Fushë-Kosovë 35, in Prizren 42 and in Gracanica 18 beneficiaries who beside the business training also benefited grant in the form of equipment.

This training was implemented by A & A Consulting Center.