BEFORE - The community identified preschool education as its top priority — they considered it important to long-term ethnic harmony, especially in a community where interaction between children of different ethnic groups is rare. Despite its broken windows, cracked ceilings and walls, and a damaged roof, this building was the perfect place to renovate for a preschool.

AFTER - The renovated building now houses a preschool and a day-care facility for both Albanian and Egyptian Kosovars, a service new to the village. “Today we are all being educated — without ethnic, gender or religious difference, because the project was educational for all — for government officials and the communities, we all learned how to contribute to projects,” said a local official at the preschool’s opening.