The Albanian Organization or the Order of Malta undertakes several humanitarian activities to assist communities in need, especially Roma and Egyptian ones. The contribution this time was for Kujtime and her son Leonel.
Kujtime and Leonel live in the area of “Zuktha” in the house of his grandmother and uncles, where 13 people live. Leonel’s parents divorced when he was not born while his father is not interested and has never met him. Since he was a small child, Leonel went with his mother along the streets, collecting cans to ensure something to eat.
In 2015, he was referred as case by a volunteer of the Albanian Organization of the Order of Malta. He was registered in the Malteser kindergarten. For the first time in his life, Neli (as he is called by the volunteers) participated in the summer camp organized by Malteser, spending his holidays at the Coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Neli continues to attend regularly the Malteser kindergarten, but he and his mother do not have a shelter, they do not receive financial assistance from the office of social services, and the mother has not been given access to employment, although she has been knocking endlessly at the doors of state structures… she continues to collect cans and begs to survive!
During the last months, the social department has been working intensively to provide Kujtime with the necessary documents for obtaining social assistance. After a hard attempt it was possible to approve the monthly financial assistance for Kujtime and her son. The economic assistance is 347.465 thousand lekë per month.