Concordia centers aid children facing poverty in Kosovo
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Concordia, a social organization, runs two day centers in Kosovo, one in Prizren and another in Gjakova, to support children and families experiencing poverty.
Since 2021, the centers have provided around 120 children and teenagers daily with warm meals, clothing, and academic assistance. Many of the children come from families struggling with financial hardship, single-parent households, or have experienced the loss of parents.
Concordia staff also make home visits to families who cannot reach the centers, delivering necessities like food and clothing. In Gjakova, a particularly impoverished area, nearly 90 percent of residents live in extreme poverty, and some families house as many as 20 people under one roof. The centers collaborate with local schools to improve school attendance, and Concordia reports that 100 percent of the children who attend the centers advance to the next grade level.
The warm meal provided at the centers is often the only nutritious food these children receive each day. Concordia also works to register children who are not enrolled in school and provides food packages to families with limited resources, sometimes less than one euro per person per day. The Stift Klosterneuburg has supported Concordia’s projects in Kosovo for 26 years, sending delegations to observe the work and gain perspective.
