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EDUCATION/TRAINING
ALBANIA
Student boarding scholarships, corresponding to the academic year 1994-95, were provided in December 1994 to students originating from the extremely poor, mountain villages of Berat and Korça, who are enrolled in the Korça and Berat Pilot Agricultural Schools. Innovative new curriculum is offered in vocational agricultural training, such as crop cultivation, especially new crops, livestock breeding, and modern agricultural methods and techniques.
In 1999, students and professors of the Kristo Isak Agricultural School in Berat carried out a project consisting in the construction of a 1,000 m2 greenhouse where the students cultivate cucumbers and tomatoes (local varieties). The steel and plastic materials for the construction of the greenhouse were bought with funds provided by World in Harmony. In 2001, World in Harmony provided additional funding for the Kristo Isak Agricultural School in Berat, to be invested in the greenhouse run by the students and teachers. The Agricultural School in Korça will use their part of the donation to replace the school’s photocopier and repair/upgrade the computer lab.
In 2001, World in Harmony provided more finances for the nursery garden in Kristo Isak Agricultural School. The Agricultural School in Korça used its part of the donation to buy a new photocopier as well as to repair and modernize its computer classroom.
CHILE
School supplies and textbooks for the Republic of Zaire School, for the academic year, 1992-93.
GRECIA
From 2003 – 2006, World in Harmony provided financial aid to an outstanding Albanian student, Olsi Nikos Nini, enrolled in the 3-year lyceum program at the American Farm Schoolin Thessaloniki, renowned for its quality agricultural education. This assistance represents the amount each family is expected to contribute towards their son or daughter's education, covering partial coverage of room and board charges. Every student is provided with a full tuition scholarship, the balance of the boarding fees being assumed by private donors, companies and foundations.
HONDURAS
In 2001, World in Harmony initiated a collaboration with the National Association of Ex-scholarship Holders for the Development of Honduras (ANEDH) in an educational project called Honduran Girls, which provides scholarships to girls with good academic potential, coming from impoverished families living in the Department of Valle, one of the most economically deprived areas of Honduras, thus permitting them to continue their studies up to the 9th grade. This project commenced in 1997, thanks to the initiative of ex-scholarship holders whose scholarships were made possible thanks to the program Scholarships for Peace, under U.S. Government auspices
ENGLAND
In 2004 we collaborated in the construction of a Concert Hall on the grounds of the YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL, founded on 16 September, 1963, at Stoke d’Abernon, for gifted young musicians. The YMS is a microcosm for a world in which Yehudi Menuhin passionately believed: that through music, all peoples could aspire to living in harmony, by means of mutual understanding and cooperation.
MOZAMBIQUE
In June 1993, didactic material and schoolbooks were donated to the "Massaca II" school in Boane.
NICARAGUA
In 1999, a development project was initiated, in collaboration with the CODESPA FOUNDATION, for the purpose of providing job training (instruction in the various aspects of credits, production, marketing, costs and basic bookkeeping, natural resources and respect for the environment), as well as financial aid for disadvantaged families living in marginal urban areas in the Department of New Segovia.
SOUTH AFRICA
In September 1994, funding was provided for a workshop based on the ERJ structure (Empowerment for Reconciliation and Justice), attended by ministers of all faiths, to learn how to intervene and assist in the solution of all types of conflicts (peace-making skills), especially those originating from racial tension and intolerance, in Cape Town.
Saheti School
In 2001,World in Harmony contributed to the Education & Development Program of the NELSON MANDELA CHILDREN'S FUND, to assist them in projects they are carrying out, with an emphasis on children within the 5 - 15 age group.
TUNISIA
In 2002 a contribution was made to the NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT FUND 21-21, under the auspices of the Tunisian Government, whose objective is to offer equal employment opportunities to all Tunisians. The program focuses upon: (1) self-employment initiatives (cottage industries) and the creation of small companies; (2) professional job-conversion programs to teach workers new skills; (3) job-training programs, especially in the public works sector.
In 2002 World in Harmony collaborated with the ENDA Inter-Arabe - Environment & Development in the Arab World, an international NGO which receives the support of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, in an educational project to assist disadvantaged young people living in the north western section of Tunis, composed essentially of families from rural areas seeking better opportunities in an urban environment.
In 2003, World in Harmony continued to support the international NGO, ENDA Inter-Arabe - Environment & Development in the Arab World, in an educational project to develop the aptitudes and stimulate the interest of children and youth in persevering in their studies, by providing them with the necessary tools to be successful in school. Academic failure is a dominant factor in social exclusion.
VIETNAM
In 2004, books representing Greek excellence in literature and philosophy, were sent to Vietnamese students who are studying Spanish language at Hanoi University.