Kosovo Woman Photo Gallery: Women of Kosovo Pics

Program Participants 2009View Slideshow

Over the last year we've made many trips back to the field. Here are some updated images from women in our Kosovo office.

Program Participants 2009
Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International, is pictured here embracing a Kosovar program participant
Program Participants 2009
Kosovar women attend a workshop focused on empowerment
Program Participants 2009
Women prepare a group dinner for Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International during her stay
Program Participants 2009
Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International enjoys a meal with the local Kosovar women
Program Participants 2009
Zainab Salbi, Founder of Women for Women International listens as women share their stories over lunch
Program Participants 2009
Women in Kosovo use greenhouses to grow produce and sell in the markets to earn an income
Program Participants 2009
Women pictured here are part of a cooperation called the Prishtina Women Group of Floral Design
Program Participants 2009
Women pictured here are part of a cooperation called the Prishtina Women Group of Floral Design

Women's Opportunity Center 2009View Slideshow

2009 marked the launch of our first Women's Opportunity Center! The groundbreaking took place in September at our Kosovo office. Click on the thumbnails below to view the images.

Women's Opportunity Center 2009
The foundation for the Kosovo Women's Opportunity Center in September 2009
Women's Opportunity Center 2009
Guests and staff members sign a guest book to commemerate the monumental groundbreaking
Women's Opportunity Center 2009
Staff members got into the action, driving the machinary at the groundbreaking
Women's Opportunity Center 2009
The inaugural Women's Opportunity Center under construction in Pristina, Kosovo

Classroom and Job TrainingView Slideshow

In our Kosovo office, the women are taught various skills, such as weaving, technical training, health education and bee keeping. To view some photos of women in the field during programs training click on an image.

Classroom and Job Training
The sign outside of the Kosovoan Women for Women International office, "Grate per Grate"
Classroom and Job Training
Male members of the Kosovoan Women for Women International staff
Classroom and Job Training
Participants in Kosovo reading sponsor letters aloud to each other
Classroom and Job Training
Sponsor letters are a life line for many women who need an emotional outlet
Classroom and Job Training
Kosovan women come together regardless of ethnic group to train and learn tolerance
Classroom and Job Training
Three participants stand outside of Sadijes house where she has proudly placed a Women for Women International sticker
Classroom and Job Training
Women learn to use tools for wood working
Classroom and Job Training
In addition to wood working, some women learn to weave baskets which can be used and sold in the store
Classroom and Job Training
Some of the wood products women in the program have created. Door frames and toys can be sold to factories or individually in the Women for Women store
Classroom and Job Training
Sewing is another trade skill that women use to make clothing to sell
Classroom and Job Training
Electrician training involves learning how to detect wire uses and instructions for completion
Classroom and Job Training
Beekeeping is another skill that many women learn which helps them both in keeping honey but also in their gardens for pollination
Classroom and Job Training
Two women work together to harvest their bees
Classroom and Job Training
The women not only maintain the bees, they create the houses that the bees live in and build their hives
Classroom and Job Training
A women works in her yard where she uses stones and wood from the products she helped make
Classroom and Job Training
Two women proudly wear their Grate per Grate Internationale shirts, they are participating in an event for Women for Women
Classroom and Job Training
Women hold up rugs they have woven and intend on selling
Classroom and Job Training
The Handicraft shop where women in the program sell their goods
Classroom and Job Training
A participant stands in the shop and smiles for the camera
Classroom and Job Training
A pair of slippers that the women have made and placed their unique tags on which symbolizes that this product was made by Women for Women
Classroom and Job Training
A graduation certificate that certifies a women has gradated successfully from the Women for Women program

Women and their EnvironmentView Slideshow

Photographs of women who have participated in the Kosovoan program. To view an image, click on the thumbnail.

Women and their Environment
A participant in the Women for Women program stands outside of her house with her family
Women and their Environment
A women shows her certificate proving that she has graduated from Women for Women international
Women and their Environment
A young women who is enrolled in the Women for Women Kosovan program
Women and their Environment
The outside of the Women for Women office and shop
Women and their Environment
A bombed out building in Kosovo - these are constant reminders of what happened here
Women and their Environment
A man looks out of his apartment across to a building that was long ago ruined and yet to be rebuilt
Women and their Environment
Elsa, a women in the program, smiles as she enrolls into Women for Women

Farming and GardeningView Slideshow

Agriculture is a very important aspect of Programs training in Kosovo. They tend to multiple greenhouses and animals and have grown a variety of vegetation and flowers. To view the women in their greenhouses and land, click an on image.

Farming and Gardening
A view of the land where the Women for Women International in Kosovo will begin setting up green houses and planting
Farming and Gardening
Some of the field have already been cleared out and soiled has been reaped for planting
Farming and Gardening
An existing gardening area. Women each have a plot to maintain and plant
Farming and Gardening
The skeleton of a green house that will soon be completed. This is one of many that will be going up this year
Farming and Gardening
Women in the program measure and plant in potters within a green house
Farming and Gardening
A man instructs the women on various horticulture, including what bulbs will produce which flowers, and how to take care of them
Farming and Gardening
A women tends to her lettuce in the green house
Farming and Gardening
A row of flowers has already bloomed and can be sold in the market
Farming and Gardening
The women grown a wide variety of flowers, all of which will be used on one manner or another
Farming and Gardening
The Women for Women International sign that is being displayed at an exhibit in Prishtina
Farming and Gardening
Women sell the flowers they have grown to local buyers at the exhibit