Coffee Festival Coming in September

May 20, 2021, 10:50 AM | Reports

Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation non-formal group gathered on Tuesday to plan another community activity. What is common for all communities here? Drinking coffee. Therefore, through this activity, our Cohesion Circle are preparing a coffee festival on the main bridge. The group is comprised of individuals from different backgrounds, majority from Albanian and Serbian communities but also from Bosniak and Ashkali (entrepreneurs, religious leader, youth with majority of young females,  civil society activists, etc).

“This event will bring people together like it was once”. Fehmi Ferati, cohesion circle member.

In the spirit of cooperation and reconciliation, most of the activity planning was entrusted to our community representatives who helped us this Tuesday to plan what kind of a message we want to send with the festival, what kind of engaging activities to plan and how to ensure proper visibility of the festival.

“Our goal is to make a traditional yearly event and to show the bridge as a place where communities come together”, said Milivoje Raičević, CMB’s Communication Officer, at a workshop in Vila Vlahia.

NSI Project Manager, Marko Milenković added that the festival should strive to send a strong message of inter-ethnic cooperation and friendship and encouraged the participants to share their ideas on how best to achieve this goal.

We are excitedly starting the preparations, and happy to have support from community members who share the goal on bringing communities together.

See you in September on the main bridge to drink coffee and tea, eat local treats, listen to music, emoji) and feed the (duck emoji). We will keep you entertained (party emoji) and safe (mask emoji).

Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation is implemented by CBM and partners Youth Initiative for Human Rights - Kosovo (YIHR KS) and New Social Initiative - Nova društvena inicijativa, with the support of the support of the American People through the USAID in Kosovo.