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are growing each day…so this are indicators that parents show genuine interest towards BONEVET and see it as an institution that was missing to the community.
How does Bonevet stimulate the entrepreneurial skills at the kids since at a tender age? In your view, what is the best way to raise entrepreneurial children? The child’s mind is the most powerful learning machine that we are aware of. Every child is born with natural talents and abilities. They have immense capacity for learning (great brain capacity), they possess independent learning skills (educative instinct), they love learning (natural curiosity), their brains grow as they struggle and make failures (growing intelligence).
BONEVET Tirana, a Space Where Anyone Can Materialize the Dream
But, recent studies have provided evidence that whatever the natural capacities, it is the environment and the culture in which children grow up in, that has a deep influence on how they develop.
By Rudina HOXHA
The vision of Alfred Nikolla for BONEVET Tirana, modelled according to BONEVET Prishtina, is very clear: to make BONEVET the epicenter of the development of the spirit of curiosity and entrepreneurship in town. “So in 3 years’ time we would like to see BONEVET Tirana as a business incubator and a maker space where anyone can engage to materialize their dreams into achievable results,” BONEVET’s CEO, Nikolla told FOLLOW BUSINESS ALBANIA in an exclusive interview. He elaborated that BONEVET is a children-friendly environment designed to stimulate children’s curiosity, imagination and creativity, three main pillars that in my opinion are the healthy foundations of raising an entrepreneurial child. From this perspective, this project creates the future ground for a more consolidated entrepreneurial
What is all about BONEVET and how did the idea for it come about? Why Bonevet is a novelty nowadays? BONEVET (Albanian word for DO IT YOURSELF) is a non-profit and non-formal educational institution established in 2014 based in Prishtina. Kosovo. Since then more than 6
2’800 children and young people have attended classes and/or workshops at BONEVET in Gjakova and Prishtina. More than 70 makers have gained various technical and non-technical skills.
BONEVET has made an important positive impact within the community of Gjakova, and it continues to give hope to the community that was left to itself after the last conflict, because many educated and skilled people left home to look for jobs elsewhere. So, looking at this perspective that BONEVET created, we thought that the same mindset of doing things, needs and should be part of Tirana’s community.
So, let me tell you a few numbers that you can create your own idea why BONEVET Tirana is a novelty nowadays. We are counting only 2 seasons (4 months) of being active in Tirana with our modules(courses) and until now have mentored 96 children from the age of 7-10 years old in 5 different disciplines. Request for older children to be part of our courses December 2019
