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During January and February 2004, Mercy-USA for Aid and Development continued its successful program to protect the health of school children in Kosovo by making repairs and upgrades to the water and sanitation system at Ismail Qemali Primary School in Pristina.
Since 2000, M-USA, with primarily UNICEF funding, has made water and sanitation system and other repairs at 35 primary schools throughout Kosovo. These repairs are providing an environment that is far more conducive to education, as well as a safer, more sanitary one for over 13,000 children.
From January to June 2003, through a US Agency for International Development (USAID) sub-grant from Parsons Corporation, Mercy-USA for Aid and Development upgraded the water and sanitation systems and made other repairs at three schools, with approximately 950 students and staff, in the municipalities of Gnjilane/Gjilan and Lipljan/Lipjan.
In June 2002, Mercy-USA successfully completed the construction of a ten-classroom primary school in the village of Likovac/Likoc in central Kosovo. The school, named Emin Duraku, includes kindergarten to ninth grade and is serving approximately 500 students from Likovac/Likoc and five other surrounding villages in the municipality of Srbica/Skenderaj.
This project, which began in September 2001, was funded through a grant from the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and through the generous support of our private individual donors.
In May 2002, M-USA distributed educational supplies to a school in the village of Molliq located in the Djakovica/Gjakova municipality.
Food and Shelter
From 1998 to January 2005, Mercy-USA provided food, shelter, clothing and hygiene assistance to over 110,000 vulnerable persons in Kosovo (including Macedonian refugees), as well as to over 105,000 Kosovar refugees who were in Albania and Bosnia during 1999.
Relief aid provided by M-USA during this period included about 1,150,000 pounds of food, 688 family tents, 5,829 mattresses, 18,855 blankets, 7,000 cooking utensils, about 3,000 cooking stoves and units, 330 heaters, 400 boxes of toys, as well as 27,280 pieces of clothing, 3,785 pairs of shoes and 800 pairs of gloves. Mercy-USA has also provided over 5,000 hygiene packages containing soap, detergent, feminine hygiene products, etc.
From October 2001 to February 2002, Mercy-USA renovated and repaired 29 sites throughout Kosovo for use as community shelters. Approximately 5,100 homeless persons were able to use these renovated shelters (schools, orphanages, clinics, motels, barracks, dormitories, and office and apartment buildings) to keep warm, dry and safe during the winter months and throughout the year.
Since 1999, M-USA has renovated and repaired 88 sites for use as community shelters for over 11,000 homeless persons in Kosovo. UNMIK and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have funded these projects.
From October 1999 to January 2000, Mercy-USA carried out a partial-home-repair/winterization program in two villages, Brovina and Molliq. M-USA helped the 1,135 residents to partially repair 160 homes sufficiently to shelter them warmly during the winter.
In April 1999, M-USA received a grant from UNHCR to build a refugee camp in Mamuras, Albania, rehabilitate a collective center in Tirana, and construct water tanks and river-water filters. The camp and collective center were closed later that year after Kosovar refugees returned to their homes.
Health Improvement
From August 2003 through February 2005, Mercy-USA for Aid and Development built access ramps for persons with disabilities at 93 locations within 25 municipalities throughout Kosovo. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) funded this program. From November 2004 to February 2005, M-USA repaired a wheelchair workshop in Pristina.
From January 2003 to March 2005, with grants from the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Mercy-USA for Aid and Development constructed a new Social Service Center in Fushe Kosovo and renovated five other centers in Pristina, Lipljan/Lipjan, Kamenica, Mitrovica and Decan.
From January to June 2003, Mercy-USA carried out a US Government-funded upgrade and extension of the water supply system to Suvo Grlo/Suhogrelle Village in the Municipality of Srbica/Skenderaj. Through a USAID sub-grant from Parsons Corporation, M-USA completely upgraded the water supply system to this mixed Kosovar Albanian and Serb village of 754 inhabitants.
This completed project, which now brings fresh running water to each home in the village, involved upgrades to the existing water catchment system, the building of two new water reservoirs, and the installation of five miles of distribution pipes. The upgraded system is also very cost effective and sustainable since it utilizes gravity to move water from the reservoirs to the individual homes, instead of electricity.
In addition to work on the water supply system, the USAID sub-grant also funded the construction of two new restrooms for a small clinic in the village. The residents of Suvo Grlo/Suhogrelle are now benefiting from the increased health and sanitation resulting from these infrastructure improvements.
From February to May 2003, M-USA, with UNMIK support, also renovated the concrete retaining wall and expanded parking and external access ways to the Chest Hospital in Pristina.
During 2001, Mercy-USA, with a grant from UNICEF, renovated the water and sanitation system at the 370-bed Prizren Hospital. This hospital serves the over 80,000 inhabitants of the city of Prizren and surrounding villages, providing them with general surgery, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics and urology services.
In 1999, M-USA repaired two public pharmacies and a clinic in the municipality of Djakovica. Mercy-USA also distributed medical equipment, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to these facilities and the main hospital in Pristina. Combined these four health care institutions serve a population estimated at over 370,000.
Economic Growth and Income Generation
During 2001, under a grant from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Mercy-USA distributed over 666,700 pounds of potato seeds and 1,867,400 pounds of fertilizer to 6,062 vulnerable families in Kosovo.
The potatoes produced from these seeds and fertilizers helped our client families to feed themselves with dignity and to supplement their income by selling the extra harvest.
Since 2000, M-USA has distributed over 1,082,300 lb. of vegetable seeds, 16,310 fruit trees, 2,386,800 lb. of fertilizer and 7,020 agricultural spray canisters to over 15,000 farming families in Kosovo.
Civil Society
In 2002, M-USA repaired and refurbished regional Pension Fund buildings in Djakovica/Gjakova, Urosevac/Ferizaj, Gnjilane/Gjilan and Mitrovica. Also, during 2002, M-USA refurbished one Municipal Civil Registration Center in Malisheve/Malishevo municipality. UNMIK fully funded these refurbishment projects.
During 2000, Mercy-USA repaired and refurbished 112 sites in four regions –Pec/Peje, Prizren, Pristina and Gnjilane/Gjilan. These sites were used by UNMIK as voter registration and polling centers. UNMIK fully funded this refurbishment project. |
