I was visiting Alyssa’s official website and I noticed she blogged recently about her visit to Kosovo. Like Alyssa, I vaguely remember the conflicts going on in the war-torn country, but I remember more someone close to me going there to help these people and he didn’t come back the same person.
I read with great interested the story of Alyssa’s visit and I thought you, the fans, would enjoy reading about it as well.
Alyssa in Kosovo
Before I leave for any UNICEF field visit, I do quite a bit of research about where I’m going. I think like most people in the US, I didn’t know much about Kosovo at all. I vaguely remembered hearing news stories of the war back in 1999. There were reports of a conflict between Serbs and Albanians, talk of the NATO bombings, and of course Slobodian Milošević. But since then, there has been little news available. This is all my roundabout way of saying that it wasn’t until I got to Kosovo that I truly understood the complexities of this place and even more important, the complexities of healing a society in which everyone, in some way, was touched by war.
