Last summer Roger Roy (’65) spent six weeks in the Western Balkan region of Europe where he was a parliamentary development advisor for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kosovo. He was tasked with writing and designing a project to assist MPs to help address/alleviate the extreme poverty in the area and assist those who urgently need social services. His wife Gerry accompanied him and volunteered teaching English to parliamentary interns and UNDP staff. Roger writes, “We had some wonderful weekend visits to Orthodox churches in Kosovo including the UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Decani Monastery. We also had an amazing visit to Montenegro, Macedonia, and Albania where the scenery and old towns such as Kotor, Ulcinj, and Ohrid were an amazing voyage of discovery.”
Roger is pictured on the left, with his wife Gerry, centre, and Kenar Loshi the Head of the Goverance Programme at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-Kosovo) on the right. The photo above was taken on the grounds of the Serbian Orthodox Monastery in Peya, Kosovo.
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