Dear friends, colleagues, collaborators, partners, donors,

The end of 2020 is a good opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made through our activities and to see how we can fully achieve our goals that we have set for ourselves as an organization and as a team.
The passing year proved once again the importance of the work that the CED organization does and in a way we managed to prove that despite the new measures, as an organization we managed to adapt to the new conditions that the pandemic imposed. 2020 was a challenging year for CED and all our supporters, so I want to use this letter to thank all those who helped us get through it.

After the period of 2001, Tearce is "labeled" as a place where most of the leaders of local and national organizations will implement projects in order to introduce an interethnic cooperation, which despite the conflict from 2001, the residents managed to maintain positive reports of created over the years.

For the realization of each project, the main need, in addition to financial means, are various human capacities. Aware that every project has as its main goal "what after the project ends?", So how will the sustainability continue after the departure of a donor, activists with the initiative of Metin Muaremi, Mensure Ilazi, Xhemal Qamili, Dijana Srecko Petrovski and Alije M.Ismaili decided to establish the CED organization on December 19th 2006, ie to become a legal entity, being aware of the challenges they will face in a country where over 10,000 non-governmental organizations are registered.

A monument in honor of the Beans Day was erected in the village of Tearce, Tetovo region on 04.12.2020. The creator Ljubisa Kamenjarov, whose idea was to create a fusion of traditional and modern artistic expression, made the monument. On the one hand, he presents the beans as a long-standing and indigenous variety, the most famous and far famous in this area. On the other hand as a unique and promising Macedonian agricultural product with great potential for development and profitability.

Centre for Education and Development - CED within Info Club Tetovo, in the framework of the project "RISE" - Network for Recourses, Information, Skills and Employability, a project funded by UNDP, and in cooperation with the Faculty of Contemporary Social Sciences, organized a two-day training (6 and 7 November 2020). The training for career development was attended by all those interested who aimed at their professional development and knowledge reinforcement in terms of what each employer requires from his employees.

 On 20.07.2020 The Center for Education and Development - CED in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning (MEPP) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) organized an online ZOOM meeting with NGOs on "Next communication steps in the process of declaring Sharr Mountain for a national park."

the Minister of MEPP, Representatives of UNEP, CED, Macedonian Ecological Society, as well as the Public Relations Office at the MEPP addressed the meeting.

The Center for Education and Development - CED together with representatives of the youth wings of all major political parties organized the event "All for a cleaner and more developed Sharr Mountain" The event aimed to set a good example of care, promotion and preservation of the environment and promotion of the values Sharr Mountain as our common home, precisely by young people aspiring to be future decision makers.

During the event, young people from the youth wings of the political parties set a personal example by cleaning up waste, writing eco-messages and signing a joint declaration of commitment to invest in improving the environment.

First she is overwhelmed, then she doesn't want to go back home. Yllza attended the Summer Camp in the children's village in 2017 and spent two weeks there that changed her life. Three years later, the 19-year-old returns to Trogen as a group supervisor.

21.03.17 Continuing its tradition of raising community awareness of environmental issues, CED organized Ecology Day 2017. Due to the presence of litter in the community, the main focus of the event this year was trash. The aim was to educate students about trash, its effects on the environment around them, ways to reduce the amount of trash we create, and how to properly dispose of the trash that we do make. In the weeks leading up to the event, CED volunteers led workshops in schools in various villages in the region.

Center for education and development – CED in cooperation and partnership with Forum CSRD – Skopje, for 18 months worked in implementation of the project “Networking and advocacy of local communities in RM”, financed from CIVICA MOBILITAS Programme. The goal of the project was to advance the process of decentralization in RM through networking and advocacy of local communities.

Members of CED took part on Erasmus+ KA1 Training Course “Social Entrepreneurship for change” in Leipzig. Due to the current political and social situation in the world, Europe has faced the problem of huge waves of immigrants.