SHORT BIOGRAPHY

“Mother Theresa” branch Kumanovo is non-governmental Association with social and humanitarian goals. “Mother Theresa” was registries as branch of “Mother Theresa” in Pristina in 1990 and from that period its activity was developed as the only branch in Republic of Macedonia but from 1999 “Mother Theresa” begin to cooperate with “Mother Theresa” in Struga so our Association is a branch of this center in Struga.

The activity of “Mother Theresa” is extended in three municipalities: Skopje, Kumanovo and Lipkovo, but helps and other regions where there is need for us. Its activity is developed by 28 sub branches established on local communities and with our supervising they always take care for the displaced, social cases, orphans, and for the handicapped.

From the establishing Assembly held on 12.11.1990 “Mother Theresa” approved its status and its program, and the 38 articles of the status regulate the work and the organizing of the Association our program goes further with our primary goal of the humanity, charity inspired by our great mother Mother Theresa.

Ten years of the existence of “Mother Theresa” are full with sacrifice of the presidency of the activists and its membership and beside the lack of financial tools in these hard times “Mother Theresa” reached success and good results and with that reasoned its existing. For this “Mother Theresa” deserves the support of the International Agencies and local and regional NGO-s and in the future to expect better results.

Afterward the establishment of “Mother Theresa” with the beginning of Kosovo crisis its activity was expanded with the actions and interventions on financial tools, firstly was helped the Albanian education that in that time was outside the public institutions with the action “Family helps family” on four Kosovo Municipalities we provided financial support for some families especially were included the families of the miners of Trepca who in that time were in very bad living conditions. 

Our activity was not concentrated only in Kosovo we didn’t left aside our social cases in Macedonia. With the beginning of the war in Bosnia our Association was faced with over 10.000 refugees and we provided for them sheltering assistance in food and clothes. But its most largest activity was during the years 1998/99 when began the escalation of the crisis in Kosovo our Association was faced with a large flux of refugees where their number reached over 30.000 and with cooperation with many local NGO-s we provided for them sheltering on private houses, clothes, and at the end in coordination with UNHCR was provided their safe return in their houses. Our activists did their duty with solidarity with these displaced people who had tears on their eyes and when the civilizing world was shuddered by the horror scenes that suffered these people our Association never stopped to give them spiritual warmness working with all potential to offer them bread salt and heart and make them feel happy. With the escalation of the crisis in Macedonia “Mother Theresa” from the beginning gave assistance to these displaced people and also for the people that were in the region of Lipkovo we provided assistance to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

After a decade of its existence “Mother Theresa” with its activity on the sphere of humanity, tolerance, solidarity become a known name for the world and inner opinion and its activity was expanded with cooperation with many International Agencies.

Recently “Mother Theresa” works without schedule and the need was to be created some commissions to relief its activity   because there was need for these commissions. One of these commissions is the projecting team that works with success and with the coordination of the Organizations from abroad will be in charge of the renovation of the demolished houses, the improvement of the infrastructure and quality of life. Till now “Mother Theresa” had a successful cooperation with “Capanamur”- Germany ;“Caritas”-Vienna; “Diakonie”-Germany; “Mercy Corps International”- USA, “IRC”; UNHCR; UNICEF etc.