Visit to Bajramshaha Jasharaj, employee of the Start plus market - A smile that makes everyone return
In the Start plus market, owned by the Jasharaj family, which is located in the Spanskih boraca street, you can find everything you need - from a needle to a locomotive. The rich offer of fresh fruits and vegetables, delicacies, dairy products, pastries, and personal hygiene products, attracts not only customers from the settlement, but the ones from all parts of the city. However, discounts and various items are not the only things customers return to. In this trade oasis on Konik, at the very entrance, there is a coffee machine, from which we immediately grabbed a macchiato. But even delicious hot drinks that invigorate passers-by or customers waiting for a longer purchase are not the only reason to return. What makes the market successful is the family atmosphere and smiles, because you will admit, there is nothing that can brighten your day like a smiling face. It is this smile on the face of cashier and saleswoman Bajramshaha Jasharaj. She waved at us and invited us to visit Start plus. And so began our story.
Vesna Dragicevic, librarian and mentor at the Secondary School Ivan Goran Kovacic - Good cooperation with colleagues is important for successful mentoring
The project Increasing educational opportunities for Roma students and young Roma in the Western Balkans and Turkey funded by the European Union and implemented through the Roma Education Fund and the NGO Young Roma is of immeasurable importance for children who want success and progress. Knowing that they can get a job only with knowledge and perseverance, they try to seize their chances. They know that they are not alone on that path because they have the support of a mentor. This time the heroine of our story is sociology professor Vesna Dragicevic, a librarian and mentor at the Secondary School Ivan Goran Kovacic, who helps Roma high school students through our organization. The biggest challenge for Vesna is to enroll students and ensure their safe completion of schooling. However, three decades of work at the school guarantee a good performance. She classifies herself as an old-fashioned worker, she approaches children both as a friend and as a collaborator, and often as a parent.
Hadzi Idrizi, electro installer in the Elko Tim Company – The best friend of the electricity
Having chosen a perspective profile of an electro installer, Hadzi Idrizi found employment in the company Elko Tim, where he did an internship through our organization last year as well. The work he performs through the NGO Young Roma includes electrical work on the installation, repair, testing, maintenance of electrical installations, equipping business and residential premises. Idrizi graduated from the High School of Electrical Engineering Vaso Aligrudic and is a beneficiary of our program Increasing access and participation of Roma students in secondary education and the transition to the labor market funded by the European Union, and implemented through the Roma Education Fund. Hadzi is happy to work in his field because that way he has more opportunities to gain experience that will surely benefit him. He would like to be given a chance to extend his contract with Elko Team, because he would achieve the goal from childhood. He told us that as a boy he always fixed things in case of a breakdown and that this profession was in some way predestined for him. Idrizi hopes that thanks to his longer work engagement, he will be able to help his family, and he would also like to enroll at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
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