Location               Date
Pejë/Pec                15 October
Gjilan/Gnjilane          20 October
Ferizaj/Urosevac       23 October
Gjakovë/Djakovica    24 October
Gracanicë/Gracanica  27 October
Prizren                    29 October
Obiliq                      31 October
Mitrovicë/Mitrovica    06 November
Prishtinë/Pristina       10 November

Peja, 01 October – Recently, on 25th September, an informal municipal meeting was held in Peja with the representatives of the community of Raushiq and municipal institutions. Vice-Mayor of Municipality, the Director of Public Services, Director of Emergency, Defence and Rescue, and the Chief of Community Cooperation Police Unit have discussed with the residents regarding their safety problems. A week before, on 19th September, in a meeting held with residents of Raushiq, on which there were around 40 residents, they expressed their safety problems and concerns to FIQ, Saferworld, and partner organization from Peja “Syri i Vizionit” staff. The key problem of community safety is the threat from the highway Peja-Deçan, a highway which has taken lives of many people. Two nights before this meeting, an 18 year-old person was killed in an accident caused by a vehicle travelling with high speed. The community has made several appeals to the Municipality and Police to prevent this permanent potential threat for their lives. They have also stressed the lack of a pavement, road signs and the lack of frequent Police patrols on this highway, especially near-by the school.
Raushiq is a village located in the western part of the country, in the Municipality of Peja, and has around 100 households.
In this meeting they have chosen a Council consisting of ten persons which will work in the following months with the staff of the project “Safe Place”, as part of the concept for community safety, in order to make efforts leading to the solution of their problems.

Prizren, 01 October – Lubinja e Eperme is a village populated with the Bosnian community and it is located near the border with Macedonia. It has 3000 residents, a primary school with 400 pupils, several small businesses and a radio station. The residents complain about the discrimination by the municipal authorities. According to them, even the discrimination makes them feel unsafe. In the meeting held with the community, on 19th September, they identified several daily problems. There are 7-8 pylons (electrical towers) in the village which may collapse at any time. They have made appeals several times at KEK for this matter, and as a result KEK staff visited the place and made analysis but took no action at all in repairing them. Two other highly-sensitive problems are the lack of Police presence in the village, and total lack of communication and cooperation with the peace-keeping forces of KFOR. Young people stay on the streets all night and they cause problems, get involved in thefts, and the Police is very negligent and unprofessional on these matters, the residents say. They also mentioned that the Police very rarely visit the village, and they do it only in cases when they are called by someone, still with delay and unprofessional behaviour. There are also no routine Police patrols in the village. According to them KFOR has not established any means of communication with the residents. Representatives of the village say that residents themselves have invested in many areas of life. They pay with participation the Secretary of Office in the village, and they also pay the worker who maintains the roads of the village. They have welcomed the project for community safety and also stress that they are disappointed by the authorities.