Campaign Story

Who are we?

Vjollca Kuqi is the leader of the “VITA” Sport and Health Association, a professor of Physical Education and an advocate of a healthy lifestyle and body weight management. Vita Association is part of the Women’s Network “Qeliza” from Gjakova, an association that aims to improve the status of women and girls through educational and advocacy activities. Working with civil society has helped her to detect the needs of the community more closely. Working with different groups of people made her confident in providing services and in spreading this form of exercise. In 2017, Vjollca made a successful campaign on KosovaIdeas called Books-Education and Experience where she raised funds to publish her book “Midis dy kohëve (Between two times)”. 

Shqipe Bejtullahu is an accountant by profession and an advocate of gender equality, at the same time she is the project coordinator of the Women’s Network “Qeliza” from Gjakova.

Urime Shtaloja is an architect and a good connoisseur of spatial planning. She is also a humanist and has previously worked with a humanitarian organization to rehabilitate war-damaged homes. Urimja has always been a supporter of the activities of the “Vita Sport and Health”, where together with Vjollca they influenced the inclusion of young people in sports clubs. In this project, Urimja comes motivated to help the team to renovate this new club.

What is our goal?

The body therapy club aims to create a conducive environment for physical exercise, and the awareness of women to live a healthy life. With the Project “Renovation of the Women’s Body Therapy Club “VITA” we will improve the conditions of the space where women of different ages will exercise, especially middle-aged women. The general goal is to include retired women in physical therapy and to help them improve chronic diseases.

This club will serve as a platform with planned recreational aerobic activity, body therapy, and rehabilitation exercises, in order to create a suitable recreational environment that affects the improvement of health and social welfare of women and to encourage them to integrate and maintain health.

The “Vita” Sports and Health Club was active for years in a different location, but because of the Global Pandemic the activities stopped. In order for the Club to be continuously maintained and to function properly, the women will pay a monthly fee to attend and the pensioners a modest amount.

How will your support help?

The re-functionalization of the Body-Therapy Club “VITA” for Women of different ages, including pensioners in Gjakova is also a service with a holistic methodology for health problems. Moreover, by rehabilitating this club, it is possible to include and improve social and psycho-physical well-being and raise their mood to feel valuable in the family and the district where they live.

“VITA” club will offer group exercises with practical and theoretical workshops and will be a good opportunity for women to socialize and counsel each other. Exercises in successful groups also affect on emotional problems, health, age-related diseases such as chronic ones. An added value of this initiative is that by joining and attending the club women will break taboos and at the same time change the patriarchal perception that exists in the community. So, their involvement in the club raises their self-confidence and values to the society.

With the funds that we will raise through KosovaIdeas platform, we will be able to renovate the club and make it functional. 

What we need (Budget)