American Excursion Fundraising Party - A fundraiser party is being thrown for  the students participating in the American Excursion this summer.  It will be next Friday, May 7th at Ciao Bar in the block in Tirana.  All are welcome!

American Excursion PCPP Fundraising –The American Excursion Project is fundraising! This project will send 8 Albanian youth to America to participate in 2 weeks of an environmental camp and 2 weeks of home stays. They are fundraising through the Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP) to obtain funding from donors back home. Attached to this email is a draft letter that you can personalize and send to your family, friends and colleagues who may be able to assist. Please spread the word so that we can get these motivated youth to America! For more information or to donate please visit the American Excursion PCPP page at:

Brief summary of a recent activity: We recently visited the recycling plant in Librazhd, where one of the engineers explained how the process works.  We're also planning a clean-up with a local school and we're going to separate the trash from the recyclable materials. Then the recycling guy will grab the metal and plastic and recycle it. Also (as of now) he said he'll donate some flowers and small trees for the high school in return for the plastic and such.  After the clean up, we're going to go door to door and hand out pamphlets about the environment and explain why you shouldn't burn plastic.