REPUBLIC
OF ALBANIA
NATIONAL
INSTITUTE FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ALBANIAN ORPHANS
Address:
Rruga “Dibrës”, nr. 312/1, Tiranë
RESOLUTION
OF THE NATIONAL MEETING OF ALBANIAN ORPHANS
FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ALBANIA AND THE ORPHANS IN THE
EUROPIAN UNION
APPROVED BY ALBANIAN ORPHANS ON THE
OCCASION OF 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDANCE OF ALBANIA AND 10TH
ANNIVERSARY OF FOUNDATION OF NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE INTEGRATION OF ALBANIAN
ORPHAN CHILDREN, ON MAY 20TH ,
NATIONAL DAY OF ALBANIAN ORPHANS, CONCEIVED AND FOUNDED AS A NATIONAL DAY FROM
THIS INSTITUTE AND ANNOUNCED BY THE ALBANIAN PARLIAMENT
On
May 20th, the National Day of Albanian orphans, on the occasion of
100th anniversary of Albania Independence and 10th
anniversary of National Institute for the integration of Albanian Orphans, was
held the national meeting of orphans from all around the country with the participation of all generations
that belong to this community, in the presence of the most important
representatives of international organizations, representatives of higher
Albanian institutions, diplomatic body and outstanding personalities of
culture, science and art. The meeting, besides the celebration of 100th
anniversary of independence, promoted 10 years activity of the National
Institute for the Integration of Albanian orphans. The meeting approved this
resolution about the current difficult situation of Albanian orphans, to make
it known to all international organizations, representatives of European
Parliament, European Commission, the governments of Western countries and member
countries of UN.
The meeting CONSIDERED:
1-
Achievements of the National Institute for the integration of Albanian orphans for
the awareness of public and politic opinion of the country, to protect the
orphan rights by making known the values, situation and the real concerns of
this community as well as the direct contribution that this institute has given
for the welfare and integration of a part of Albanian orphans.
2-
The contribution of Albanian personalities of culture, art and science which
come from the community of orphans, for the cultivation and distribution of
human values.
3-
The support of higher representatives of International Organizations to the
activity and the mission of the National Institute for the integration of
Albanian orphans.
4-
The cooperation and the support that the President of Republic of Albania,
Prof. Dr. Bamir Topi has given to the
orphans and the National Institute for the integration of Albanian orphans,
these last 5 years.
5-
The contribution of the Western countries in support of Albanian orphans that
have emigrated because of blood feud.
6-The
cooperation and support that the Committee of Nationwide Reconciliation has
given to the National Institute for the integration of Albanian orphans, for
the protection of orphan rights, in and out of Albania, especially for the
protection of the rights of orphans that emigrate because of blood feud.
7-
The support that Media and Non-public Universities have given to the Albanian
orphans under awareness of the National Institute for the integration of
Albanian orphans.
The meeting APPROVED:
tHE LETTER TO THE gENERAL SECRETARY OF uN AND MEMBERS
OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, TO DECLARE MAY 20TH AS THE “WORLD DAY TO
SUPPORT THE ORPHANS”
The meeting CONSISTED:
The
condition of orphans and Social Service network
This
service reports that social assistance covers 65-67% of people in need, whose
number amounts to 464800, or 14% of total population. Indeed, the number of
those who need social assistance is over 700 000. This number has varied from
time to time from 700 000 to 1000 000 individuals who actually remain in an
extreme poverty due to unemployment crisis. From 700 000 Albanians in need of
social assistance, 184 000 of them are children, 31 000 of whom are orphans.
Over 2/3 of this age face the extreme effort for survival, but the orphans
remain the most affected by this extreme poverty and struggle. Only a few of
them receive social assistance. The social assistance guaranteed by state
covers only 5 % of their minimum needs. From 31 000 orphans in all over the
country, only 400 of them are treated in 9 government residential centers and 360 others in non government centers
(NGO). 100 000 persons with disabilities, among whom there is a large number of
orphans, are in the same poverty situation and struggling for survival .
Social
centers for services to the groups in need are only a few compared to the needs
and remain fragile in front of local,
center and state administration which change their destination because of “lack
of funds” every time that private construction firms , related to the
representatives of politics and government, buy them with a low and ridiculous
price. State Social Service Network
operates with 12 regional offices in all country which have not functioned
properly during the transition years. This happens because in most of the cases
this service network has been corrupted and informal, bringing considerable
damages to the state in achieving the standards. Rehabilitation Center for
orphan children isolated from blood feud, that was constructed in Poliçan by the
decision of the government in 2008, failed because of the corruption and the
lack of vision. Despite the warnings and the denunciation of the Committee of
Nationwide Reconciliation, there were spent only 38.000 Euros from 5 million
Euros that the government and the donators provided for the project. There have
failed other projects such as the “Second Chance” of the Ministry of Education
for the isolated children from blood feud, and the project of establishing a
special structure of the police in Shkodra to stop the blood feud. This has caused skepticism to a part of
international partners, as the main donators in implementing of social programs
in favor of groups in need, about these projects and institutions of private,
state and social services. Unfortunately a part of these donators continue
providing funds to the wrong direction and without the proper vigilance.
Non
Governmental organizations and their relation to the orphans
In
this sector, there are publicly stated 140 associations dealing with the
treatment of poor layers and children in need, especially the orphan children and
the ones isolated because of blood feud. This fact hasn’t only not relieved the
phenomena that affect these layers, but has made their situation worse, since
most of them are pseudo-associations. This happens because most of the
individuals that create these fake NGO-s, are individuals without a background,
the necessary stature and the moral integrity, and unfortunately have severely
damaged the cause of civil society, movement for emancipation and social
development. Most of them are non educated or with purchased diplomas, who
obviously manifest low moral acts and behavior, plagued by permanent fraud and
theft habits on behalf of unprotected
groups of society. These individuals
who are easily identified as social extortionists, are mainly traffickers and
former bodyguards of casinos, that cheat the public opinion ,state
institutions, private operators, business, foundations, embassies , showing in
Albanian medias or internet as representatives of orphans of families in enmity.
They have severely compromised the mission of the Civil Society creating occult
relations and without any transparency with the foreign donators, mainly from
Islamic countries for commercial and profit purposes. Further, these
individuals have created relations to irresponsible and incriminated persons
from western countries to trade “aids” from USA, Canada, Belgium, England
etc. Some representatives of Islamic
societies operating for years in our country with suspicious activities
guarantee financial support to these abusive individuals with mutual benefits.
The law in Albania allows every individual to create formally a nongovernment
organization and many traffickers, rogues and criminals have benefited from
this. A part of them are related to the corrupted employees of public
administration. Such individuals have absorbed, through the media and internet
fraud, donations in considerable values on behalf of orphan and blood feud
children. These founds were never available to the orphan or isolated
children. Unfortunately, in many cases,
not only the citizens, but also the Western donators have fallen prey to these
frauds. In addition, these speculators misuse the orphan children in electoral
campaigns and in propaganda meetings in the interest of people with politic
power that support them, for personal profits and to mask their abusive
activities in a flagrant way and in contravention with the Convention of the
Children Rights.
Under
the influence of these individuals, the government and the International
Community have disconnected the relations with the serious operators of the
Albanian Civil Society. The situation gets more serious when the government in
an oppressive way goes against the serious operators of the civil society
because of their constructive opposition, involving the structures of the state
police. The police involvement to damage the image of the most devoted
organizations of the Civil Society because of their opposition to the
government is the worst strike to the democracy, the state of rule and law, Human
Rights and citizen freedom.
This
political criminal game has supported and encouraged the incriminated people
and has hidden the other actors of the civil society, businesses and citizens
to avoid their confrontation with the bad governance, government decisions and
the laws approved in parliament which are the best indicator of the mafia and
the organized crime relations to the structures of the state and government.
Boarding
Schools in the service of the orphans
For
21 years there are hundreds of young orphans, unemployed persons in ghettos
conditions, sheltered on the boarding schools in Tirana, Shkodra, Saranda, Durres,
Berat Korce, Fier, Elbasan, Gjirokaster (whose intention is the accommodation
of the boarding students from the districts). In this miserable situation, they
are not provided with the minimum vital conditions and have no hope for the
future. Remaining orphans doubled, in a miserable situation these young people
are the most vulnerable and marginalized contingent of Albanian society.
THE
MAIN CAUSE OF THIS SITUATION IS:
The lack of national development planning and the consolidation of the state of rule and law:
By
4 million people of Albania, 1.5 million have emigrated through the hardest
clandestine ways facing the killings in the border, deaths due to the bad
weather and the drowning in the sea from criminal drivers or military ship
attacks. A considerable part of these
victims have been orphans, 50% of this emigration are citizens forced to leave
the country because of the enmity
conflicts created due to the absence of
effective law state. The lack of the
effective law state has brought into the scene the Kanun which is
applied in a distorted way and with tragic consequences even to the women,
children and orphans. By 10400 victims of the self-justice murdering, in and
out of Albania, , 68% of them belong to the poor families and the same
percentage results to the families which has caused these killings. These
killings have brought 1400 orphans that do not only remain in poverty and
misery but are imposed to find the justice of their lost parents. Actually
there are 1500 isolated families with 900 children that do not attend school.
Like the most of the orphans, the threatened families have not found the
necessary protection or support, except that of the Institute for the
Integration of Albanian Orphans and the Committee of the Nationwide
Reconciliation. Many orphans and families in blood feud, when they do not find
the reconciliation and the survival in the Albanian conditions, find that their
only way is to leave the country. Unfortunately, also in this case, the
engagements of the traffickers and extortionists who have created
pseudo-associations have damaged the right of the families who are really in
blood feud to get protection in western countries.
Albanian
orphans as most of the citizens, even though they belong to a young age
population, do not have any business opportunities and have lost their hope for
the future in their country . Often they have become a prey of these frauds of
pseudo-associations and traffickers.
Local power (districts) do not have a plan for the social support of the
orphans they do not have a plan for the
development of citizen economy and environment.
The relation to the parties interests has done the local administration
incapable to take useful and stable decisions for community. According to the
information provided by organizations of
human rights and those of environment , the geographical Mediterranean position
of Albania and its nature, relieve, climate, vegetation, water and underground
resources , satisfy the conditions for higher living standards and business ,
but the problem is that this property is forgone and not managed because there
is not any national planning. The corruption as a distinctive feature of poor
societies is becoming an ugly feature for Albanians who find it very difficult
to be disconnected since they have many
vital needs. On the other side they see that the government people provide
fabulous wealth being in power. The anti-corruption laws operate only to the
poor citizens and low-ranking employees. Until now there is no minister
convicted for corruption, his relation to mafia and the sale of national property.
The
corruption has continuously undermined the administration which is created by
militants and devoted people of the party in power. The weakness and the
professional incapability of these people ascended in government directly from
the auditors of politic parties, have influenced in all life areas, bringing
poverty and devastation not only in the everyday life, but also in political,
social, legal and judicial life. International organizations and diplomatic
representatives have not been able to recognize the social and politic reality
of the country and have not contributed adequately for the protection and
consolidation of state of rule and law. Their annual reports that are published
and read by government are superficial, with careful phrases not to anger any
politic party. These reports are totally out of reality and often ridiculous.
In none of their reports, in these 21 years of transition, is presented the
real picture of orphan children, even though the situation is consisted easily.
This comes as a result of the absence of
a real civil society and trade unions in Albania. Non-government organizations
funded by internationals do not have volunteerism except the paid staff and the
leader who gets the Lion’s part of the amount provided by the donator. Politic
parties have been interested that the trade unions are run by their people. The
projects of civil societies have never provided the groups in need. As far
there are 83 projects for the orphans and 176 for blood feud supported by
donators, but only a very litle number of the orphan children or families
involved in blood feud have benefited from these projects. In Albania, especially in cities, the culture
of protest and gathering for human rights is absented. Albanian citizens, even
though they suffer every day the stress to provide the minimal vital conditions
cannot be gathered in protests because they have lost any hope for change and
face every day the psychological and media oppression of policy. The citizens have
neither trade unions nor civil society to lead or protect them. According to
the recent data the number of beggar
children, thieves, prostitutions and children who work for their family is
increased more than 30% in the last three years, even though the government
says that the country has an economic growth. Orphans are the most unprotected
layer of these contingents. 60% of these orphans remain very poor during all
their life and their existence is in constant danger. The businesses in most of
the cases provide donations for public celebrations of people in politic power
and not for direct investments in education and well growth of this group in
need. Donations provided in support of foundations leaded by people with
politic power, have deprived group in needs for real support. The Albanian
tradition of liability of relatives to take care of the orphan is disappeared.
The situation remains hopeless when 40 000 young people who have finished their
studies are unemployed, 30 000 persons of age 14-30 are drugged and 7000 of
them turns out to be involved in criminal acts. The institutions, public and
non-public programs are missed. There is only a rehabilitation center for 30
young drug users. Violation cases in family are increased in a tragic way,
often ending with the killing of the wife or husband in front of children eyes.
In poor families the violence is extended to the children forced to obey the
parent orders, to leave school and go to work. In cities the families have
degenerated into divorces and conflicts
because of the poverty, bringing many tragic cases for both parties. A
considerable number of wives and daughters of poor families find the illegal
prostituation as a solution to survive. Victims of this miserable situation are
especially orphan daughters.
Concerns
of the National Institution for the Integration of Albanian Orphans
The National Institution for the Integration of
Albanian Orphans has continuously insisted that the government and the state
should be more sensitive about this situation. The Institute has long insisted that
the structures of the local power, in the process of decentralization and
social services, should have all taxes and necessary legal instruments to act
for the improvement of social conditions of the orphans. The Institute has
raised its voice for the cooperation between the government and the operators
of the society, for the prevention of crime against life since these 21 years
the self-justice killings have left 1400 orphan children, but the government
has ignored its voice. There are about 600 orphan children of the police
officers fallen on duty, who have not really felt the warm hand of the state,
as a moral obligation and a sign of respect for their 350 fathers, martyrs of
the homeland which gave their life in this painful transition in defense of
order ,peace, freedom and its values.
There are 1050 other children from Rom community that remain disdained
in the eyes of all society, begging along the streets of the major cities of
the country. All the problems arising from this resolution as well as the
report of Amnesty International indicate the continuity and high preocuppation
with which the National Institute for the Integration of Albanian Orphans have arised
these problems, but there has not been shown the proper attention to this
important institution of the civil society. Tha Albanian Parliament,
international community, donators and the Albanian government are responsable
for that. Members of Parliament have amended 40 times the law on “Status of
Parliament Member”, which provides them support and welfare to their families,
while the law on “Status of the Orphan” is never amended, leaving the quote for
an orphan living only 28 USD per month, as in the beginning of transition, when
the minimal cost of an individual in Albania was 400 USD per month.
The Amnesty
International Report.
In
the last six years,
the Amnesty International has published its annual report on the deplorable situation of orphans in Albania. This report has been presented every year to the
Albanian government, the international institutions and the European Parliament
emphasizing that during the 21 years of transition in Albania the rights and
the fundamental freedoms of orphans have been denied and flagrantly violated.
The Amnesty
International states that:
- The Albanians
orphans were denied the right to
housing, employment, medical assistance and
many other rights, they are the most marginalized
and hopeless part of the society. "
"Young people who leave social care need
shelter and dignity”- appealed the Amnesty International in 2010 during
Albanian Orphans’ National Day –
The Amnesty International
has called on authorities to ensure
that orphans and
other young people who grow up in social care structures
not become homeless once they finish school.
Social housing in Albania is very scarce and generally the poorest and the most
vulnerable (orphans included) have no access to it. The majority of these youth
cannot afford private housing without financial assistance. Amnesty International calls on the authorities to ensure them, without delay, access to adequate housing, either by
providing them with support in the form
of bonuses to
housing, or other by means. The Amnesty
International states: “poverty is one of the main reasons why children are
placed under the care of social structures in Albania and the state does very
little in helping them to come out of poverty.” As a result of non-sufficient protection of their rights by the state, when they reach adulthood, they often remain homeless
and are threatened by extreme
poverty and social exclusion. The right to adequate housing is guaranteed in
the international law, which requires states to give priority to disadvantaged groups. The Albanian
legislation guaranties orphans the right to priority treatment in regards to
housing. According to official statistics, during 1996-2011, only 29 out of 1150 persons with orphan
status have been provided with housing under
the provisions of this law (none
of them after the change of government
and since 2005). The current government policy on
housing has not given priority to housing people
in need and the current social housing programs
will only benefit a small minority of the
homeless in Albania. The Amnesty International is of the
opinion that the youth who leave social care do not receive the necessary
support needed to complete their transition to independent life. Many of them
graduate without obtaining the skills and the necessary qualifications that
would enable them find a secure employment and sufficient income to live
independently. Not
having a family from which
they can seek help and often in unsafe
and poorly paid
jobs, they may have little
other option but to live in the harsh conditions of semi-abandoned school
buildings - the
only "solution "the
state provides for their housing needs. Some
of them have been living in these kinds of shared accommodations for
approximately twenty years and now they are raising their children in these
miserable conditions. Every year other youth are added to their ranks, the ones
that become homeless as soon as they graduate. A young woman who was raised in
the structures of the social care told the Amnesty International the following:
“A human being needs more than a loaf of
bread, needs to live life with dignity...An orphan is dignified only when he is
able to live in a house”.
Jezerca Tigani, the Amnesty
International Coordinator states that the right of housing is a minimal right,
but the Albanian Institutions play the finger pointing game. “This report highlights of how the Albanian
governments have failed and continue to fail in protecting the human rights of
orphans and how this failure has led to their marginalisation. The denial of
their right to housing has taken this group into a deeper poverty and social
exclusion and has limited their access in other rights”-miss. Tigani says.
Melanie Anderson,
representative of the Amnesty International and one of the main authors of the
report on Albania states
that the municipalities and the government should accommodate the orphans just
like everyone else. “The Albanian law requires central and
local authorities to take measures
to accommodate orphans graduating from high school, but in practice, these legal requirements are ignored, creating harmful consequences
for orphans and sometimes with tragic consequences" - says Mrs. Anderson.
Amnesty International
activists visited the dormitory
of Tirana technological school, the "Arben Broci" boarding school in Shkodra
and the trade school in Vlore; they
called them uninhabitable, ghetto
of orphans where they live
in isolation and extreme poverty. Miss Anderson said: “There
are not a large number of homeless orphans and this goal can be achieved if
there is a political will”.
The Amnesty International
urged the government and municipalities to implement international conventions that Albania has signed, especially the law on the "orphan status", to raise the amount of social housing and distribute them with full
transparency, having orphans’ representatives participate in the housing commissions. Housing is only one
of the problems faced by the 31 thousand Albanian orphans who deal with
enormous difficulties such as education, employment, food, clothing and
insufficient funds, only 50 USD a month.
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INTEGRATION OF ALBANIAN
ORPHANS HAS PROPOSED TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UN, NEW YORK.
To
Declare May the 20th, “the World Day to Support Orphaned Children”
The official
letter forwarded to the UN Secretary General states:
The understanding of man, which supports the
declaration of 1948, is not abstract
or even surreal. Since it stems from
an absolute and universal desire - the inalienable dignity of man - this
international instrument takes into account the diversity of the entire
political situation, economic and social, in which living people of flesh and
blood whose rights can encounter real barriers that need to be defined and thus
be overcome.
In our
day and time, worldwide, regardless of the specifics of one's culture, the human rights belong
to the common heritage of mankind
and should continue to serve as the basis upon
which to support solidarity
- a necessary condition
for the full realization of the future of any individual. For
example solidarity with the ones who are of a greater need, and specifically,
the orphans. Namely, to establish
this spirit of solidarity and to give them a universal dimension to the
global concern for this category of people the National Institute for the Integration of Orphan Children, addresses the General
Assembly of the United Nations
with this memorandum,
proposing May the 20th
as "World Day
to Support Orphaned Children".
The fate of the world’s orphans is and should be inseparable from it all. A day
like that would remind people that the exclusion or the removal of this social
group may have consequences on everyone’s progress. There is a threshold of
poverty, and even of humiliation on these people of whom many democracies risk
their universal values. Albania, our country of a thousand troubles, where
orphans are lacking the basic reasons to be engaged as citizen in the daily
practice of democracy, has made some impressive steps. Eight years ago, with
the proposal of the National Institute for the Integration of Orphan Children
and supported by the Academy of Science and a group of intellectuals (the best
of our country), the Parliament declared May the 20th, “The National
Day to Help Orphaned Children, a decision that was adopted by Kosova Parliament
as well. The Albanian and the Kosovar orphans probably have the most tragic
story in the world, because many of them were left alone as their parents were
executed by the communist regime who eliminated intellectuals who had studied
in the West, but also by the tragic events of ethnic cleansing in the former
Yugoslavia and the war caused by Miloshevic dictatorial killing machine upon
Kosovo’s vulnerable population. The sufferings of the Albanian children who
were orphaned during the 50 year dictatorship are of unprecedented
proportions.
Mr. Secretary General!
Of course, our cultures are different, just like our languages are
different, but orphaned children around the world have much in common, other than their common tragic fate. What will be able to unite and give them more hope
for a better and secure future would be Your announcement of a
World Day to Support Orphaned Children which though not, had originated from our poor country on the
Adriatic coast. It would be no small thing nor a
luxury for Albania, which in addition to drugs, illegal
immigrants and organized crime that has accompanied this prolonged period of
painful transition, with
reoccurring crisis from the
lack of culture and basic notions of democracy, will
turn to show the
world an important part of
our human aspect. I hope and believe
that by remembering every year on May 20, a common
day for orphans around
the world, we would have shared the project for
a better future and
secure for all mankind.
THE NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE ALBANIAN ORPHANS APPEALS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT
THE INTEGRATION PROCESS OF ALBANIA IN EUROPE ALONG WITH ORPHANS, AND ADDRESSES THE
MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AS FOLLOWS:
Honorable Eurodeputies!
We Albanian parentless children, like
many other children in the world, suffer from unfulfilled dreams. It is not our
practice to talk to much or blow things out of proportions, but this is the
truth. We have doubts about our rights. We are not being taught how to be
better for ourselves and for our country. The politics in Albania are very
tense, is causing us to lose faith and strength. We feel we are becoming
foreigner to the present and distant to the future. Politicians of both sides
attach great importance to their individual goals, their fight for power, but
they forget that we, children, exist, they forget that there is a democratic
nation that has suffered from a dictatorship, a nation with boundless love for
freedom. Believe us, we have rights. We want dialogue, self-control, maturity.
We want the politics to own the truth, to contemplate the fate of its citizens,
to think of us. Why should our European country become a epicenter of
conflicts, why should it blow the horns of social hatred and be wrapped in the
dark clouds of doubt and corruption, our country, of an ancient civilisation
and rich in every aspect? There are wars, tensions and hostility in the world
of today. This is one more reason to apply self control and restrain. Therefore
we must preserve the balance of the soul so that we would not feel
ashamed. Since we have chosen the
alternative of change, we have planned the continuation of life. We should
practice goodness everywhere because is the value of human life. Faith in such
values is the belief that baptises the future. Civilisation is like a religious
fanatic, demands great faith and spiritual devotion.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of
European Parliament.
Help us to change our lives, and please strive to change the lives of
children around the world, the lives of those in needs but who do not demand
mercifulness. Above all, fight for the freedom and the rights of the orphaned
children! We are looking for and will, definitely, find purpose in
life. There are values in this life worth living for and to love, to
seek passionately, without even tiring, to find them and enjoy to the full. But
we need moral strength; the physical strength is often not enough. Moral that
is not prescribed like pharmaceutical prescription, but sincere moral that
gives us wings to fly. Otherwise we risk being conditioned by hatred that can
damage our spirit, our conscience; the world will be most likely filled with
more selfishness, more violence and we, probably, will not be able to even
adjust to ourselves. Certainly the consequences would then be catastrophic
Education in this spirit of solidarity and understanding amongst us will
increase the social sprit in general, it will increase the sense of pride. The
world needs a reliability standard that lasts without end. The world needs a
reference in the form of a special day, to remind everyone that it should never
forget that caring for children without parents, abandoned children or the ones
left adrift. The Albanian Parliament with the proposal of the National
Institute for the Integration of Albanian Orphans has assigned May the 20th
to be the National Day of Help for Orphans. Would have not been better if there
was a global day for orphans? A day to remind us all, without exception, that
we are this world’s citizens and it is not enough to be only citizens of our
respective countries?
Our life should take a more global meaning, that the loneliness would
not eat away the hope of the unfortunate marginalised children around the
world, that they live alongside other people, enjoying all rights and freedoms
of life so they can take pleasure of it
to the full and not vegetate in solitude, in the dark pockets of the consumer
oriented society.
We need a day to unite us all, on the whole planet, a world day that is
ours, where the desire to assist and human solidarity will appear, without
barriers of prejudice; we need a day for human dignity.
We,
the orphans of Albania, the representatives of the National Institute for the
Integration of the Albanian Orphans and the representatives of Kosovo Orphans,
express our gratitude and make the request for the European Parliament becomes
the promoter of this change in world politics for orphaned children by
proposing to the UN to announce May the 20th as the “World Day to
Support Orphaned Children”
From The National Assembly of the
Albanian Orphans.
Tiranë May 20th, 2012
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