Balkan Sunflowers Prague based picture database: Bathore

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Bathore is a place north of Tirana where between 1992 and 1996 26.000 people illegally settled.
Balkan Sunflowers was the first NGO to put the deed to the promises and runs different projects in Bathore.

71.93 Kb 20-09-1999 A bridge near Bathore
70.84 Kb 20-09-1999 The Bathore working group meeting in the Tirana Piramide

52.41 Kb 11-09-1999 The main road from the asfalt road in Kamza leading into Bathore		83.22 Kb 11-09-1999 This family of five have 12 m². Their cottage is from stone. The man doesn't work for five years since the mines closed in Burell. The children can't go to school, as there is no money.		64.81 Kb 11-09-1999 Leentje en Fatmir visit the people that got food from us during the last distibution
70.28 Kb 11-09-1999 A project from someone in Bathore. He found a way out and built for 3000 USD a greenhouse. He employs three of his neighbours. The problem is, that the ground is not his own. But it is very fertile.			69.02 Kb 11-09-1999 In this cottage live 12 people. There are almost 400 of these cottages.

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The following photo's come from a special part in Bathore where 1.200 people live in old cow sheds.
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Climbing things for the children in Bathore					They have it a bit better - their father has a shop
70.30 Kb 13-08-1999 A playground in Bathore	66.36 Kb 13-08-1999 The old cow sheds				65.53 Kb 13-08-1999 The living room from the "president" from the people living in the cow shed, and his kids. His house it by far the best of the whole place.
61.46 Kb 13-08-1999	68.47 Kb 13-08-1999 Over 50 people live in this house				73.60 Kb 13-08-1999 The inside of one of the houses in the cow shed camp. This is how over 1000 people live here, with more or less 5-6 people per room. No running water, no toilets
61.20 Kb 13-08-1999 The sister of "the president" with the youngest kid	60.21 Kb 13-08-1999 The water place in one of the cow sheds...				54.03 Kb 13-08-1999 ... People get their water from here, filter it through some cloth and drink it.
66.09 Kb 13-08-1999 Half of a family in one of the houses	65.60 Kb 13-08-1999 One of the outside toilets				70.54 Kb 13-08-1999
72.29 Kb 13-08-1999	75.28 Kb 13-08-1999 She was the nicest girl I found				61.87 Kb 13-08-1999
	69.34 Kb 13-08-1999 The medical post with ambulance
children of Bathore around the yellow Sunflower bus
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68.45 Kb 21-08-1999	66.33 Kb 21-08-1999				54.56 Kb 21-08-1999
68.42 Kb 21-08-1999			60.51 Kb 21-08-1999

Impressions of Bathore