TEACHERS AND PUPILS TOGETHER IN SOME INTERESTING ACTIVITIES
EI-NOT PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

According to the working plan both FSASH and SPASH are organising activities and concrete work in the framework of the EI – NOT Project implementation.

After the preparations of all the documents, including project description and objectives, calendar of the activities, questionnaires, etc, and after the meetings of the working groups and the consultative meetings with all the teachers involved, they organised the joint discussion in each of the selected schools, in Tirana (Bathore), Elbasan and Korce.

Meetings were organised separately with each school, which created the possibility to discuss concretely about the situation, the work done for the identification and selection the pupils, organising the monitoring system, filling in the questionnaires and so on. More than 135 pupils, mainly from those at risk to abandon the school, took part in those meetings, together with their teachers.
Both chairmen of the FSASH and SPASH, as well as representatives from the regional education directories and school administrations took part in all the discussions and gave an important contribution to increase the engagement of the teachers in this work.
Really optimistic were the discussions, especially in both schools in Elbasan, in school Bathore 1 in Tirana and in both schools in Macedonian minority in Korca.

Teachers spoke openly in front of the pupils they are monitoring. They expressed their commitment to help their pupils stay in the school and learn better the lessons, also asking to their pupils to be more active and explain to their parents that they have to attend the school, instead of going to work in the market or in the streets. The principle of De Rada School in Elbasan, Kristina Luga said that she is considering both the bois that she is monitoring as her sons and she expressed her conviction that they will be integrated in the school as all the others.

Pupils themselves spoke openly appreciating the engagement of their teachers and asking for some assistance, especially through contacting their parents, but also through any other possibility to alleviate their economic situation, because, also according to them, it is this reason that their parents urge them to work, selling in the streets or doing other jobs in the afternoon or any other time, before or after the lessons in the school.

It is important that some of the teachers reported good results, even after so little time dealing with their pupils. The best example was mentioned in Bathore No 1 School in Tirana, by the teacher Dilaver Lena, who said that one of the girls was turned back in the school, (she had left the school some weeks ago), after the concrete work he had done with her parents.

We also talked about the activities planned to be organised in the future and they appreciated very much the cultural and sportive activates we are going to organise with them in October.
Especially in Korca schools, pupils and teachers appreciated very much what we are doing there and they expressed their engagement to realise the objectives of the project.
Especially in this community, we also solved some problems of the teachers, through the intervention of the Ministry, regarding the payment of some remuneration from the end of the last year, some textbooks not paid yet, and so on. We are under the discussion process with the Ministry also to solve the problem of the transport for some pupils from both schools in Korca, who have to walk long distances every day to reach the school.

FSASH and SPASH working groups will continue to follow by near the concrete work of the teachers with their pupils and make all the necessary arrangements for coming activities.