the ideas partnership

Welcome to The Ideas Partnership

volunteers tackling education, cultural heritage and environmental challenges in Kosovo and the region, without political or religious affiliation.

The Ideas Partnership mission is: the empowerment and support of those in need in Kosovo in the fields of education, health, welfare, and cultural heritage, and the protection of the environment, promoting the ethos of volunteerism and philanthropy. 

You can learn more about our work through the site; or just contact us. Have a look at our latest newsletter. See a presentation about our work. And follow us on Facebook. (And Twitter @TIP_Kosovo. And Instagram.)

You can also use the magic of paypal to  to support our work.

What are some of the things we get up to? Our big news – everyone’s big news – is the opening of our NEW ACTIVITY CENTRE. After a decade in improvised cold concrete spaces with inappropriate access, the children we work with – and the young mothers and those with special needs, and anyone from the local community who needs somewhere to come together and speak and develop – have a bright, clean, modern, easy-access space designed according to green principles and built by, with and for local people. We’re still raising money to finish making all of the classrooms operational…

Here’s our recent webinar on the challenges facing marginalized pregnant women and their babies, and how our midwife is changing and saving lives. This was Neighbourhood 29 ten years on, remembering one of our first projects and looking at how the community, and the individual children who showed us their world, have developed. Here’s our report on the causes of early marriage among the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities (also available in Albanian) – developing an earlier report on the early marriage phenomenon. Here’s our Policy Brief: Access of women from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities to health services. And this was when the Duchess of Cornwall visited our centre in Fushë Kosova. Oh, and from our tenth birthday a little while back here are the ten stories ten TIP friends told over ten months: our TIP Ten Out of Ten.