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NEW! December Issue of Compact
Nov 25, 2020
Classroom Improvements in Gjirokaster
Nov 17, 2020
Estes Park Fire Update
Oct 20, 2020
Fire Near Estes Park
Oct 17, 2020
A Greener Way in Pogradec
Oct 14, 2020
Update from Gjirokastër
Oct 07, 2020
NEW! October Issue of Compact
Oct 01, 2020
Back to School Albania-style
Sep 15, 2020
Amaro Tan Summer Camp
Sep 11, 2020
Laptops for 47 Teachers in Albania
Jul 21, 2020
Kindergarten-- Back in Session in Albania
Jun 02, 2020
NEW! June Issue of Compact
May 27, 2020
Buçimas Clinic Reopens
May 22, 2020
School from home in Albania
May 06, 2020
Children's Learning Center-- Exciting Update!
Apr 15, 2020
Relief aid deliveries in Pogradec and Gjirokastër
Apr 13, 2020
NEW! April Issue of Compact
Mar 30, 2020
A chance to help out
Mar 23, 2020
COVID-19 response in Albania
Mar 20, 2020
After the Earthquake
Feb 05, 2020
Albania Earthquake Update
Dec 23, 2019
Bringing Aid to Mokra
Dec 13, 2019
Albania Earthquake
Nov 26, 2019
A deadly 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Albania in the middle of the night November 26. The quake was centered near the coastal city of Durrës, and has been followed by many hours of aftershocks.
Article in the Estes Park Trail Gazette
Sep 27, 2019
Back to School in Gjirokastër
Sep 20, 2019
Making New Friends in Gjirokastër
Jul 26, 2019
Learning the Rules of the Road at NG-Albania
Jun 14, 2019
Roy and Beverlee Atwood Return to the US
May 24, 2019
Support Estes Park Volunteer Trip to Albania!
Apr 23, 2019
Nehemia School Graduates Give Back
Apr 08, 2019
A New Love of Learning
Jan 28, 2019
Interview Time at Nehemiah Gateway University
Jan 23, 2019
Winter Aid Deliveries in Pogradec
Dec 22, 2018
From Amaro Tan to High School
Oct 29, 2018
Ambra and Jorida graduated from the Amaro Tan School in Pogradec in June. Although you would not guess it by looking at them, both girls come from desperately poor families. By successfully completing ninth grade, they have already attained a higher level of education than most girls from their Balkan Egyptian and Albanian communities. But they aren’t done yet. Ambra and Jorida were awarded full scholarships to the private, college preparatory Nehemia High School in Pogradec, and started tenth grade there this fall.
A Right To Play and Have Fun
Oct 02, 2018
The theme of Amaro Tan’s 2018 summer camp was “I have rights.” This may seem like an unusual theme for a summer camp, but for the children of Amaro Tan, it is a vitally important one.
Their Joy is a Blessing to Us All
Aug 15, 2018
Nehemiah Gateway Albania’s Social and Medical Improvement team held their annual two-week summer camp for children with disabilities and special needs on July 2-13. The camp took place at the Nehemiah Gateway campus at Buçimas, which is enclosed for safety and has green spaces and play equipment for all ages. The 25 children who participated enjoyed outdoor play and open-air activities together every day. Thanks to generous donors like you, this camp was offered completely free of charge.
Visiting Villages in the Albanian Mountains
Jul 27, 2018
On a warm, sunny day in early June, I joined Nehemiah Gateway social workers on their twice-yearly visit to the mountain villages in the Mokra region near Pogradec, Albania. The villages seem to be close by on a map, but it takes several hours and excellent driving skills to reach these remote places. Arnold Geiger, founder of Nehemiah Gateway, first visited these villages in the 1990s, after the fall of communism. Since then, the organization has been visiting twice a year, bringing parcels of food and donated clothes and shoes to the poorest people in a very poor region. According to Albania’s 2011 census, about 46,5 % of Albanians still live in villages like these—a number that continues to shrink, as it does in many parts of the world.
In the late 1980s, Arnold Geiger started helping convoys of humanitarian relief to many countries, for example Russia, Romania and Turkey. A 1991 trip to Albania, then newly emerging from 50 years of totalitarian government, profoundly moved him.
