Pack for a Purpose

We are proud members of Pack for a Purpose, an initiative that allows travelers like you to make a lasting impact in the community at your travel destination. If you save just a few kilos of space in your suitcase and bring supplies for area schools or medical clinics in need, you'll make a priceless impact in the lives of our local children and families. Watch the video here. 

Hotel Gracanica supports Pack for a Purpose with a special project for The Ideas Partnership Learning Centre for Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian learners aged from 3 to adult. The project works in neighbourhoods 28 and 29 of Fushe Kosove, about 20 minutes from Gracanica and Prishtina. Most of the families here earn their living from scavenging from the garbage, and from begging. Only 4% of this community complete compulsory education and illiteracy is high. The project offers kindergarten education, weekend academic support for kids in school, mediation to get kids into school, hea th support and antenatal care and clothes distribution,

The Ideas Partnership Learning Centre is an initatiive of the author Elizabeth Gowing. The Ideas Partnership won the EU Award for Roma Integration in Kosovo in 2014.

Click here to see the list of supplies needed.

Check with your airline or travel agent to determine the current luggage allowance. For Custom rules and regulations, check with the Embassy of Kosovo (according to the last available information, goods up to a total value of 175 € can be brought into the country without paying customs or VAT).