The contracts are signed for the establishment of two new social enterprises in confiscated properties of organized crime in Durres and Saranda!

“KinFolk Coffee Library – Social Initiative as a measure to counter youth crime involvement in the city of Durres” and “Social Crafting Garage – Saranda”, winning projects of the Fourth Call for Proposals under the sub-grant scheme of CAUSE – Confiscated Assets Used for Social Experimentation Project, join KeBunono!, Pasticeri Sociale in Fier, as the first three initiatives of this kind in the country and in the region.

Through the grant of CAUSE and the usufruct contract with the Agency for the Administration of Sequestrated and Confiscated Assets, the implementing organizations Albanian Education Foundation in partnership with the Civil Society Development Center Durres and Institute of Development, Migration and Integration will work to create a sustainable social enterprise model on a property confiscated from the organized crime for a period of at least 5 years.

The project “C.A.U.S.E. – Confiscated Assets Used for Social Experimentation ” aims to create a good model of sustainable re-use of the confiscated assets to the organized crime under the administration of the Agency for the Administration of Sequestered and Confiscated Assets, through the establishment of social enterprises by CSOs. It is implemented by Partners Albania, in partnership with Project Ahead and Comitato Don Peppe Diana, and funded by the European Union through the Delegation of the European Union in Albania.