Tag: Tirana
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Tirana’s young volunteers help elderly residents during COVID-19 lockdown
By joining the #AdoptoNjeGjyshe (#AdoptAGrandparent) initiative, youngsters are volunteering to support their lonely elderly neighbours by sharing a home-cooked meal or offering to deliver their groceries and medicines.
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A young mayor tackles one of Europe’s most polluted capitals
As mayor of Tirana, Albania, Erion Veliaj has introduced alternatives modes of transport to the city’s traffic-clogged streets and made the public a full partner in the process. Tirana’s colorful buildings — Wikimedia Commons At a roundtable on walkable and cyclable cities at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona this week, Erion Veliaj, the mayor of […]