What is Crossing Borders?

We support children and young people in less-developed regions by improving their educational opportunities

Taking the statement "We change the world for the better" as its motto, Crossing Borders is focused on making a sustainable contribution in less fortunate regions of the world.

Education enables children and young people to lead a better and more independent life. If knowledge and experience are passed on, a sustainable and self-perpetuating effect is achieved that allows families and whole communities to progress. By focusing our efforts on poor regions, we achieve the most comprehensive effect with our available resources.

As an independent association, we have currently 190 members worldwide. Up until now, we have supported projects in 34 countries and on four continents.


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What do we do?

Financial assistance and organizational support for projects

Crossing Borders offers financial assistance and organizational support to projects that improve the education opportunities of children and young people in disadvantaged regions of the world. In special cases, projects in other regions are also supported. More rarely, we support the charitable engagement of our associations members financially through donations.

Additionally, we also try to foster networks of knowledge exchange and communication activities that aim at enhancing social awareness and social competencies.

How to support us?



Support the idea

By sharing our passion, spreading the word and actively bringing in your thoughts and ideas, you are making a contribution. We are always looking for fresh ideas, networking opportunities, interesting project proposals, and motivated people sharing our commitment.

Spread the word and help us to reach more people!

Donate

We guarantee that donations are used in order to improve the education opportunities of children in less-developed regions of the world. All donations are used exclusively for supporting our partner projects.

It is straightforward - you donate and we make sure your money goes directly to the cause.


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Support the projects

What counts in the end is that children receive support in order to live a self-determined and happy life. Support for this cause does not necessarily have to go via Crossing Borders, we are happy to create opportunities for direct engagement within the projects

Check out the section "What does Crossing Borders do?" in order to learn more about our projects and their concrete support needs.

Psycho-social programme (Kosovo)

The psycho-social program supports children with special needs and learning disabilities from diff erent cultural and religious backgrounds.

Especially children from the Roma, Ashkali or Egyptian ethnics groups in Kosovo are often forced to live on the street and beg for their living. The situation is even worse for those with learning disabilities or cognitive impairments. Within this project, the children receive psycho-social care and support. Special activities allow them to gain new experiences outside of their environment of poverty. The resultsof these eff orts are visible – health, hygiene and school performance improve and the children are more self-confi dent. Crossing Borders has supported the psycho-social program directly and has also contributed to the erection of a building for the NGO "Duart Plot Meshire".

How to support this project?

The project is looking for all kinds of school material and children’s clothing. Volunteers experienced in working with children are welcome as well.

Partners:

Duart Plot Meshire

Where:

Vitomirica, Peja (Kosovo)