Balkan Sunflowers

is an international grassroots organisation, founded in 1999 to aid the Kosovar refugees. Volunteers from around the world saw the TV images of the war and refugee emergency. They wanted to help in ways that money could not.

They believed that person-to-person contact with aid workers who came to work as friends and neighbours, might help restore community life in ways that emergency aid and political support alone could not.

Balkan Sunflowers believes that international volunteers, participating in local community life, crucially promotes the ideals of a caring and open society. Balkan Sunflowers volunteers come for at least six months, live in vulnerable communities; they organise children and youth activities, and workshops for adults, teach courses, or provide information.

Balkan Sunflowers have asked if we can please supply:

· A big roll of Velcro
· Blutack (really hard to find in Kosovo)
· Lino - for etching, and etching tools
· Bikes and bike tools
· Furniture for children, tables and chairs - like the Early Learning Centre · Outdoor kids furniture
· Craft books, instructions: Beading, weaving, mosaicing, for e.g.
· Tangrams
· Glass paints
· Mosaic sets, mandala making sets
· the "Directory of Grant Making Trusts" / the "Guide to the Major Trusts" or any other fundraising resources - from any year/any edition!
· Clay, plaster
· Building Blocks
· Scientific games: "Magic Gardens", crystal growing kits, for e.g.
· Musical instruments
· Pipe cleaners
· Felt of different colours
· Activity Storage Boxes
· MAB blocks: (http://extranet.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/DSME/decimals/SLIMversion/teaching/models/mab.shtml) or any other blocks helpful for teaching mathematics
· bean bag / bean bag chairs
· children's books
· picture books
· sports equipment
· school stationary
· whiteboards / blackboards
· reference books (atlases, encyclopaedias,
· Poster paints (as many as possible!)
· Poster Glue / School Glue

mirrors (unless they wont survive the journey)