Work in progress

After my Italian guests returned home, my work schedule resumed in full force last week.

While in the midst of networking, negotiations, and legal matters, which are taking quite a bit of time daily, and spill over sometimes onto the night hours, I squeezed in time, here and there, to advance as much as possible the plans for the physical setup of the offices that will be able to use a wing of my property.

Electricians, carpenters, painters, and cleaning personnel are making quite a bit of progress, which will continue throughout the summer.




Water, electrical services, windows and doors fixtures are all fixed, new venetian blinds and telephone are installed, old computer is refreshed, and online connections are fully operational.

In addition to some, just received, donated furniture for a 2nd office room, I obtained estimates for special cabinetry that can be installed for the eventual library, once the major physical work is completed inside and outside the premises.

Also made a few new purchases to add necessary furnishing and equipment for a more complete functioning by the fall.

The shipment of books of all sorts (in 3 languages), historical documents, recordings of training materials, collections of scientific and technical papers, etc. that I accumulated throughout the years of my professional work, and arranged for shipment from NY to Albania this spring, is currently crossing the Mediterranean sea and will reach the Albanian port of Durres around June 25.

These resources will be added to the publications already donated in loco and will form the library of the organization we are setting up in Tirana for educational purposes of its younger population.

What remains to be done now is to find funding sources to staff appropriately the organization so that it can function and grow in the future.