Qendra "Femijet Sot"
Rruga "Deshmoret e 4 Shkurtit"
Tirana, Albania
Tirana
Albania
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Others
- Research
- Youth and education
Our Mission and Vision:
Our Mission is to lead Albanian society toward a conscious engagement with Children’s Rights and the value of children’s participation in constructing a sustainable and joyful future.
We envision having Albanian children recognized by adults and by themselves as active agents in history. We wish to see children in our country who live with dignity and have guaranteed rights, who are respected and live in freedom. We wish to see Albanian children living healthy and enjoying proper levels of nutrition. Our vision is to have children who have access to education, leisure, culture, and who enjoy the right of access to every sphere of life and to equitable professional opportunities that would bring sustainability to society and the planet.
- Our Objective:
Our statutory objective is to work for a world where children are capable of realizing their full potential. To reach this goal, QFS will work through:
a) contributing to the realization of children’s rights; their education, health, physical and psychological well-being, as well as their normal development
b) increasing their participation in decision making for issues concerning them and empowering their role in the family and in the community
c) raising the awareness of society toward children’s needs, rights, and their importance as the future of the country
d) pushing for the drafting and implementing of public policies that have the child at their centre
Children’s Rights
The center works to promote children’s rights. Such work is focused both on children who must recognize their rights and be aware of how to realize them, as well as on the society as a whole, which also must recognize and respect them. Only in this way is the complete realization of children’s rights possible. Within the framework of this program, we aim to undertake actions such as monitoring the media and governmental actions to evaluate their commitment to addressing children’s rights. Thus, we aim at improving qualitatively the media’s recognition of the social value of children and their rights in Albania, and we offer a recognition certificate called the “Visible Child Prize” yearly to constructive media exposure on topics concerning children’s rights.
Further, QFS will monitor governmental actions to assess whether children’s rights commitments are actually being delivered and pressures through positive advocacy being made so that concerns are actually addressed. In each administration we aim to pressure governmental involvement in drafting and implementing public policies serving to improve the situation of children and youth in Albania. QFS’s goal is to have an influence in drafting policy directed at vulnerable children such as those in the Roma community.
It’s my right to live with rights
Project aimed to assist isolated children as a result of blood feud phenomena, faced mostly in Shkodra district.
Quality Education for Children
Through this program, QFS contributes to the continued improvement of education, addressing problematic issues for the country such as school children enrolment and attendance (including work on statistics), access to proper infrastructure and learning methodologies, as well as suitable didactic materials. QFS works to provide school equipment and well trained teachers, at all levels of public education to children and youth. The program seeks close collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Albania in order to improve public education at the community level. The program aims to guarantee that children are heard and their input considered in this process. The program also advocates for an increased educational budget for the maintenance and improvement of schools.
Environmental education is an important part of this program. QFS promotes the creation of a clean and healthy environment for children and everyone else. Campaigns on the engagement of children into anti-pollution and recycling activities within their families, schools and society will also take place in the framework of this program.
QFS will work on increasing children’s knowledge of fields which are important to development, such as technological and computer knowledge. In this way, children are pointed towards the digitalized world (the access to and knowledge of IT and
communications). The program aims to amplify the opportunities of children for access to Information Technologies and Communications and their learning of its use, allowing the youth to seek professional skills in this field as well.
The program aims at promoting the traditional forms of Albanian arts and culture. This is considered an educational approach that guarantees the survival and appreciation of all in a cooperative, participatory and creative way.