Next mission: May 2010
Developing sport in the Serb enclaves of Kosovo!
In December 2008 we initiated the action to help Serbian sports clubs in Kosovo. We have brought in Kosovo, more precisely in Kososvka Mitrovica (northern Kosovo), all equipment necessary for the creation of a boxing club that was forming.
We were able to achieve this goal through a partnership with a French boxing club in the region Iséroise.
Our actions always being looked upon long-term and with continuity, we will start providing sports equipment in the spring of this year. We will deliver the following to Kosovska Mitrovica and the Serb enclaves in Kosovo:
- Equipment for football and basketball: balls, shorts, T-shirts, shoes.
- Boxing Equipment: gloves, shin pads, punching bags.
- Office equipment for the secretariat of the sports clubs.
Following the war, the Serbian youth was left with no activities and found themselves abandoned to the street while subjected to its vices. What is missing most in this disaster area (due to the anti-Serb pogroms and war), is material assistance to support and encourage initiatives to get young Serbs off the street! The boxing club that we helped last year now has 60 members. With the additional equipment that we will bring the hope is to double that number. 120 young Serbs who are training in boxing; this is how many young people will be mentally and physically strengthening themselves to face the terrible challenges of their lives – a people who have become a minority in their own land. When everything is gone (Serbian government, Serbian town halls etc.) it is these local football/basketball associations that will become the living and gathering areas for young Serbs.
Help the young Serbs to pull through!
You can help:
-If you have a large stock of sports equipment in very good condition
-If you can get this equipment at reduced cost
To allow us to buy the equipment we need from you:
• Cheque payable to ‘Solidarity Kosovo at: Solidarité Kosovo – BP 1777-38220 VIZILLE – FRANCE
• Bank Transfer: BIC: CEPAFRPP382 – IBAN: FR76 1382 5002 0008 7707 2878 125
• Donate online through Paypall: http://www.solidarite-kosovo.org/fr/dons-en-ligne
We remind you that Solidarity Kosovo is a volunteer organization and that each donation goes directly to humanitarian missions.
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