Announcement - Njoftim

25.03.2013

NJOFTIM PER TENDER

Rikonstruksioni I Qendres Shendetsore te ADRA ALBANIA Referenca e publikimit: ADRA ALBANIA/ 2012-07-01 Organizata ADRA ALBANIA nepermjet ketij publikimi njofton hapjen e procedures se negociueshme per tender per rinovimin e qendres se saj shendetsore e cila ndodhet ne adresen  Rr:” Bedri Karapici”, Qyteti i Nxenesve, Tirane/ Shqiperi. Ky rikonstruksion do te behet nepermjet ndihmes financiare te IPA ADRIATIC CROSS BORDER PROGRAM and ADRA FINLAND. Dosien e tenderit mund ta gjeni prane zyrave te ADRA ALBANIA ne adresen e meposhtme: Rr “Muhamet Gjollesha”, Nr.4, 1000 Tirane, Shqiperi

Autoriteti Kontraktor

Emri dhe adresa e autoritetit kontraktor

Emri                            ADRA Albania

Adresa                         Rr. "Muhamet Gjollesha", Nr. 4

            PO Box 2403 10 000 Tirana

                                    Albania

Tel/Fax                        +355 66 2092832

E-mail                          info@adra.al

Adresa e Internetit       www.adra.al

Emri dhe adresa e personit përgjegjës:  

Emri                            Hashmet Biba, Menaxher Logjistik i ADRA Albania

Adresa                         Rr. "Muhamet Gjollesha", Nr. 4,

PO Box 2403 10 000 Tirana,

Albania

Tel/Fax                        +355 66 2092832

E-mail                          hashmet.biba@adra.al

Vendndodhja e objektit te kontratës:

Qëndra Shëndetsore e ADRA-s

Rr “Bedri Karapici”,

Qyteti i Nxënësve,

Tiranë/ALBANIA

Përshkrim i shkurtër i kontratës:

1.      Fondi limit 23,072.00 Euro   

2.      Burimi i Financimit: Adriatic IPA Cross Border Cooperation Programme 2007-    2013 and ADRA Finland

3.      Objekti  i kontratës Rikontruksioni i Qendres Shendetesore te ADRA Albania

Kohëzgjatja e kontratës ose afati kohor për ekzekutimin: 
Kohëzgjatja në muaj 1,5 ( nje muaj e gjysem) ose dite 45 ( dyzete e pese dite)

Afati perfundimtar per pranimin e kerkeses suaj eshte data 10.04.2013 ora 16.00 me oren lokale.

Jeni te lutur te paraqisni kerkesen tuaj ne adresen e zyrave qendrore te organizates :

ADRA ALBANIA ( adresa: Rr “Muhamet Gjollesha”, Nr.4, 1000 Tirane/ Shqiperi)

Per cdo informacion shtese ose pyetje mund te drejtoheni ne adresen e zyrave qendrore te organizates.

Live from the guardian!

One Billion Rising – live coverage

LiveLive coverage of events around the world marking a day of action – and dancing – to protest against violence against women and girls

Albania

Erinda Toska works for a humanitarian organisation called ADRA Albania in the small city of Fushe-Kruje, not far from the country’s capital, writes Kira Cochrane.

She and her colleagues work intensively with the Roma community, who often live in very difficult conditions, she says, facing serious challenges with poverty, unemployment and violence. They decided to hold two events for One Billion Rising; the first took place yesterday, involving the women of the community, and began with a showing of the video The Girl Effect, which discusses women’s rights, then some time learning the choreography to Break the Chain, and dancing enthusiastically.
The two main issues they wanted to discuss were domestic violence and early marriage – Toska says many girls in the community are married at 12, and pregnant by 13, and this leads to a vicious cycle of poverty and other problems. They’re keen to involve men in the conversation too, and so are having another event for them today, to discuss the same issues. After all, many boys are married early too. The aim is to "encourage them to reduce domestic violence." she says, “because they’re all young, so they can do something.”

People dance to mark One Billion Rising in Fushe-Kruja, Albania, today. Photograph: public domain

Mobile Clinic for Roma, update

ADRA Albania is continuing its efforts to help the Roma community and rural village communities by providing basic medical services, medicine, and in severe cases the funds to undergo specialist treatment.

Volunteer doctors and nurses, as well as dentists are coming to Albania on a regular basis to support our own medical staff.

Recently, a group of Slovenian doctors visited the village of Zall Bastar, where there is a great need for health education, medical attention, medicine and dental care. The situation of the health centre in Zall Bastar is severe, three nurses share one stethoscope, and the whole centre is ill-equipped.

Nearly all inhabitants are living on social assistance, which is less than 15 Euro a month; they can hardly afford medicine or special services.

The Slovenian team brought a Gynecologist, a Paediatrician, a Dentist  and nursing staff to support the medical centre of Zall Bastar by performing baby-visits, ante-natal visits, providing free PAP-tests, and free dental care for children and adults.

Albanian volunteer doctors have already expressed interest to follow this example, so ADRA Albania is working not with a volunteer dentist in Tirana and a volunteer ophthalmologist in Fushe Kruja.


Their trip was kindly sponsored by the Slovenian pharmaceutical company KRKA, which is also operating in Albania, and ADRA Slovenia.

We greatly value this humanitarian intervention, the efforts and motivation of volunteers to offer their work and material.

Zall Bastar says Thank You!

Adventist Church and ADRA Leaders Meet Albania's Prime Minister

Dr Berisha meets with  leaders

02 October 2012 Tirana, Albania [Julian Kastrati, tedNEWS] A delegation from the Adriatic Union Conference headed by its President, Pastor Branko Bistrovic, held a courtesy meeting with Albania's Prime Minister, Prof Dr Sali Berisha. In this visit, Pr. Bistrovic was accompanied by Pr. Sretko Kuburic, AUC Executive Secretary, Dr Dragutin Matak, representing the Religious Liberty Association, Pr. Leo N. España, Albanian Mission (ALM) President, Pr. Julian Kastrati, ALM Executive Secretary, Pr. Sergio N. Borges, ALM Associate Treasurer as well as Dr Beatrice C. Kastrati, ADRA Albania Country Director.

In his opening address, Pr. Bistrovic transmitted to Prime Minister Berisha greetings on behalf of Dr Bertil Wiklander, Trans-European Division (TED) President, who visited Albania earlier this year to mark 20 years of officially organised Church presence in the former communist country. Pr Bistrovic then proceeded to give a brief presentation regarding the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church, its structure, mission and vision. Pr Bistrovic stressed that "the Church does not exist to serve itself, but rather to serve and address the needs of the local community," thus reassuring Dr Berisha of the on-going commitment of the Church and ADRA towards the Albanian people, offering universal values through a holistic approach that has given Adventism a very positive image worldwide.

Receiving a certificate of recognition from ALM and ADRA

On behalf of the Religious Liberty Association, Dr Dragutin Matak commended the Prime Minister and the Albanian Government for the outstanding and exemplary level of religious liberty and the peaceful coexistence among religions in Albania. As he expressed his gratitude to the Adventist Church for its contribution towards religious liberty, on his part, Dr Berisha pointed out that "respect towards others' religion is one of the most fundamental values of the Albanian civilisation." Furthermore, Dr Berisha emphasised that "religious tolerance and co-existence has been passed on from one generation to the next, despite various attempts from occupiers to use Albania's religious diversity as a tool of discordance, or from the former communist regime which tried to wipe religious faith of fron the national consciousness."

After briefing the Prime Minister on the 20th Church Establishment Anniversary celebration, Pastor Leo España, President of the Church in Albania, highlighted the fact that Adventism has much older roots in Albanian soil, reaching as far as 100 years ago. Pr. España then shared briefly the touching story of Albania's Adventist martyr of faith, Daniel Lewis, a pharmacist from Boston who returned to his native Albania in the 1930s to share the Advent message in the Land of Eagles. Following World War II and the instalment of a repressive communist regime, Daniel Lewis was later imprisoned, tortured and died in prison because of his Scripture-based religious beliefs, including keeping the Sabbath day holy.

Courtesy Photo with PM Berisha

Pr. España also briefly shared the story of one of Lewis' Bible students, Meropi Gjika, who waited for over 4 decades to get baptised and return her tithes and offerings to the Lord. Evoking on Meropi's last wish to have a church near central Tirana, Pr. España presented a letter of request to the Prime Minister, kindly appealing for the latter's assistance on securing a special permission to build a multi-purpose community and evangelistic centre that would simultaneously house the Central Tirana Adventist congregation. 

To the delight of everyone in the audience, the Prime Minister pledged his full support for this project and affirmed that such a church that caters for the spiritual, social and health needs of the community would be most welcome. In a wider context, Dr Berisha also expressed the support of the Albanian government on initiatives of the Adventist Church and ADRA in areas such as inter-faith dialogue, culture and social solidarity.

As tokens of appreciation, the AUC, ALM and ADRA Albania leaders at the close of the meeting presented the Prime Minister with a small gift from the TED President, a recently-published Thomson Bible in Albanian, as well as a plaque in recognition of Dr Berisha's long-term, unique contribution to religious liberty and promotion of humanitarian and faith-based values for the Albanian people.

For more information about the church in Albania and ADRA Albania, please visitwww.adventist.al and www.adra.al [tedNEWS].

ADRA Albania Launches Literacy and Integration Centre for Roma

02 October 2012 Fushe-Kruje, Albania [Lydia Weidner, tedNEWS] ADRA Albania has successfully launched the "Reflect! Act! Integrate" Training Centre in Fushe-Kruje, 25 km from Albania's capital, Tirana. Kindly sponsored by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Austria, the projects aims to combat illiteracy among the largely marginalised Roma populations.

In the opening ceremony, Dr Beatrice C. Kastrati, ADRA Albania Country Director, welcomed distinguished officials including His Excellency, Mr Florian Raunig, Ambassador of Austria, Mr Erik Tintrup, Vice Ambassador of Germany, Ms Filloreta Kodra, Vice Minister of Labour, Mr Ardian Came, Vice Minister of Education, as well as Ms Wein and Mr Qosja from ADA.

Dr Kastrati also welcomed other important stakeholders of the project such as UNDP, Amarodrom, Terre des Hommes, Save the Children. In a strong show of support for ADRA Albania, a delegation from the Adriatic Union Conference (AUC) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as well as the Albanian Mission (ALM), headed by Pastor Branko Bistrovic, AUC President, was also present in the opening ceremony.

In her welcoming address Dr Kastrati expressed her deep appreciation for the Austrian Embassy and ADA for their generous support on behalf of Roma women, men and youth who desperately need literacy and social integration into the wider Albanian society. Dr Kastrati then shared a touching story, as she described the birth of the project idea back in 2009 when an elderly Roma woman asked ADRA to teach her reading and writing so she could sign a contract.

In his address, Ambassador Raunig, expressed words of appreciation for ADRA Albania. In a wider context, the Ambassador stressed that EU Integration commences inside the country from the bottom up, building peace within the community before integrating into society, and then society integrating into the world.
Vice Minister Came pointed out in his address that the integration of Roma children into the public school is an excellent example for the whole country, a goal the Albanian government has been working towards for many years. He emphasised the key role of women, especially mothers in child rearing in the development of society. He assured ADRA of continuing support and cooperation in part of the Ministry of Education.

"ADRA Albania is well-known to the Ministry of Labour through many years of service to the vulnerable communities and we look forward to many years of cooperation in the future," said Ms. Kodra, Vice Minister of Labour. She commended ADRA’s efforts to prepare Roma adults for vocational training courses offered by the government and promised cooperation in the creation of needs assessments of the Roma communities.

Ms. Erinda Toska, in charge of implementation, proceeded to introduce the project specifically, listing all problems the Roma people face in their everyday life, such as poverty, disease, confinement of women, unemployment and presented the results of the pilot project and the action steps towards the new project.
On behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and ADRA's Board of Directors, Pastor Bistrovic expressed the Church's appreciation and continuous support for such fine and humane initiatives. "Our mission is to serve others in the community, especially catering to those who are underprivileged and discriminated," said Pastor Bistrovic.

The meeting was concluded with a visit of the Austrian Ambassador, ADA and other officials to the project centre. In this centre, Roma women, men, youth and teenagers will have the opportunity to receive training as well as participate in group discussions on sensitive topics such as healthy lifestyle, early marriage, family planning, sexually-transmitting diseases, employment and education.

Later that day, Dr Kastrati, along with AUC and ALM administrators, met with Albania's Prime Minister, Prof Dr Sali Berisha, who expressed his deep appreciation for what ADRA Albania has done on behalf of the Albanian people. ADRA was the first non-for-profit organisation that entered post-communist Albania. Its leader at the time, Pastor John Arthur, OBE, was decorated in 1994 with the country's highest medal, "The Mother Teresa Order".

More information about this project can be found at http://reflectadraalbania.blogspot.com
For more information about ADRA Albania please visit http://www.adra.al [tedNEWS]