Young community volunteers in Kosovo and university students from Japan worked with the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) to clean up neighborhoods in the war-torn region of Kosovo. ADRA’s Public Awareness Education Campaign 2000, a waste management and beautification program ran August 1 to 22, and was the kickoff for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Waste Management Project.

Campaign volunteers also aimed to promote awareness of environmental issues by distributing materials that included a comic book called The Secret of the Earth.

This fall, with US$2.8 million in funding from the UN Development Programme (UNDP), ADRA will reconstruct five schools in the Malisheve municipality in cooperation with the German KFOR, a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing a security presence in Kosovo. ADRA will also provide public awareness and landmine awareness education to students.