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The Municipality of Kucova: Reconstructing Housing for Families in Need

– NGO Partner: N/A– Theme: Housing, Earthquake Relief– Location: Kucova– Date: Winter/Spring 2021– Amount Raised: $17,092– Partners: Municipality of Kucova – Description: The Municipality of Kucova, in collaboration with GAF, was able to reconstruct an entire building previously unused by the Municipality and in need of extensive renovation. Two low-income families now live in this …

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Speaking Out on Sexual Abuse of Children in Albania

– NGO Partner: YWCA Albania – Theme: Health/Youth – Location: Albania – Date: June 2021 – Amount Raised: $2,836 – Additional Donations: Corporate Donations from Optima Legal and Financial, and Institute for Public Policy Management – Description: Sexual abuse is one of the most painful and frightening experiences that a child can endure. The consequences …

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Giving Tuesday: GERMIN and The Global Albanians Foundation

Last week, GERMIN and the Global Albanians Foundation (GAF) together concluded the largest-to-date Albanian Diaspora Virtual Conference, gathering over 2,500 live participants from around the world in a marathon 25 hours program over three days (19-21 November), sharing ideas, exchanging opinions, tackling important issues, and celebrating successes. Today, we launch our end-of-year fundraising campaign and …

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Save the Date

GERMIN – one of the leading nonprofit on Albanian Diaspora Engagement – is hosting its second global diaspora conference in partnership with the Global Albanians Foundation (GAF). This year’s conference will be fully virtual, connecting industry professionals, businesses, communities, activists, and experts from around the world to reflect on diaspora engagement in the past 20 years and explore what its foresight role is in the next …

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Phase 2 Application Form: Project Proposals for Earthquake Relief

Primary Evaluation Criteria This call for proposals is open to (i) nongovernmental organizations; (ii) municipalities and communes; (iii) universities and educational institutions and (iv) private organizations. The main criteria for evaluating concept ideas are as follows: Emergencies that have identified potential for intervention. Providing support in an areas affected by the earthquake where there is …

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Newsletter: Earthquake Relief Efforts

Together with our partners and donors, we have raised $215,922.93 to help alleviate the situation created after the disastrous Earthquake that hit Albania in November of 2019. Phase One of project Earthquake Relief awarded $51,000 to 6 implementing partners, and will be completed in September.  In addition, we awarded a total of $25,000 to support emergency relief during the Covid crisis …

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Vision OJF: Children’s DayCare Center in Fushe-Kruje

– NGO Partner: Vizion OJF– Theme: Youth, Earthquake Relief– Location: Fushe-Kruje– Amount Raised: $4,122– Date: Summer/Fall 2020– Partners: Municipality of Fushe-Kruje – Description: Under this initiative, Vision OJF and the GAF created a Daycare Center for children in Fushe-Kruje to serve families that had been adversely impacted by the earthquake. The Daycare Center was equipped …

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Multicultural and Integrated Religious Albania (MIRA): Shelter and Health Care for Children in Three Villages

– NGO Partner: Multicultural and Integrated Religious Albania (MIRA)– Theme: Health, Education, Earthquake Relief– Location: Rushkull, Sukth– Date: Summer/Fall 2020– Amount Raised: $8,597– Partners: Local Municipalities – Description: Through this initiative we provided: (i) containers for 2 families which served as temporary housing for these two families displaced by the earthquake; (ii) food packages for …

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