FilmAid in Macedonia
Kosovo Mission, 1999
For eight weeks, FilmAid held free screenings of silent films, cartoons and family-oriented feature films for a few hundred to as many as 4,000 children and their families in the refugee camps in Macedonia and back in the war-torn communities of Kosovo.
Traumatized children came out of tents and gathered together as a community for the first time since the shattering experience of being forced from their homes. Night after night, families came together as an audience, and the FilmAid truck went from camp to camp enchanting children and uplifting spirits. FilmAid employed local people to run the programs and trained them in technical skills. On this mission, FilmAid learned how it could use film to educate on matters of life-saving importance. FilmAid projected essential information on land mine awareness, a critical issue at the time.
"I don't know how long I will be here but I wish you were here every day. I am very grateful that [FilmAid International] is here."
- Ardita Myfari, Kosovar refugee, age 14
Learn more about the conflict: The IRC in Kosovo
