Today, our magic hands got to experience something new. After having completed all the handicraft workshops, we switched beads with more nurturing raw materials. Our teachers Mira and Mamudija came to our house to teach us the art of making pita and burek – two of the absolutely most important traditional and delicious dishes of…
One of our volunteers is 珮雯 (Apple), a 22 years old Taiwanese girl. The visit to Kosovo is her first time in Europe. Read about her impressions in a special interview with a Plemetina Star:) Kosovo is an interesting choice for a first country to visit in Europe. How did that happen? The region of…
Our group has been living in Plemetina for a week now. We are spending time in “our” house and at the office of Roma Road, where the workshops are held. Between the places, while walking to work and back, we have been observing the environment. Here you can see some interesting things which we found…
If you didn’t realize yet: our project Magic Hands consist of two parts. Currently, we are in Plemetina, Kosovo, where we are documenting handicrafts of Roma women, but a month ago, another group of volunteers explored a different world. We spent two weeks in Tavankut, in Vojvodina, with the community of Bunjevci. We had the…
After an exciting and intensive first week in Plemetina, we went to explore city life in Kosovo 🙂 Luckily, in Prizren currently Dokufest is taking place, an international documentary film festival. This year’s topic: Migration. Between movies we spent time with eating Burek and strolling through the wonderful old town. Another highlight was the excursion…
We came to Plemetina with a very ambitious and big goal in mind: to share everything we learn in a book. In this book we will collect the tutorials of the handicraft, as well as stories about what we learn about Plemetina and its inhabitants. In an attempt to contribute to mutual understanding and peacebuilding,…
“Who are we?” Under this slogan the first workshop with youth from Plemetina and international Magic Hands volunteers took place. Thanks to hospitality of the local organisation Roma Road we could all meet and, by easy games that involve writing, drawing and talking, everyone got to know each other. Successfully, as you will see. The message…
Today we had the first day of workshop. We met our teachers, Mamudija and Mira and the girls who will help them already yesterday, but today we got into action. Women are teaching us how to make art out of glass beads. Mamudja started doing this crafts about 7 years ago when her sister in…
Our volunteers arrived to Plemetina! Time to start the second* part of the project “Magic Hands”! The first day of the workcamp has just passed and brought a lot of excitement. Before we start our workshops with Roma women and learn the traditional handcrafts they do, before we begin to work on the book and…
GAIA SCI KOSOVO calls for youth to join summer workcamp projects abroad. Each year thousands of volunteers join international voluntary workcamps which are being organized on all continents. The idea of international voluntary workcamps started right after the World War I, in 1920, when volunteers from ‘’enemy countries’’ joined forces in reconstruction of destroyed…