Recovery

From crisis to sustainable livelihoods

Building a resilient community — overcoming economic poverty, sharing resources and standing with one another in times of need and injustice.

34
families into legal
employment (2025)
2
cities — Tirana
& Durrës
Weekly
social-work
drop-in clinics
A Tek Ura social worker visiting a family in their home — the Recovery programme in Albania

“Tek Ura has changed this area, helping people in times of crisis.”

— Amelia

The need

Many families we walk with live one crisis from destitution. A criminal record, a disability or unstable, informal income can close every door — poverty here is rarely about effort, but about access.

In 2025, the Recovery programme supported 34 families into legal employment — a move from informal or unstable income toward sustainable livelihoods, and away from repeated short-term crisis support.

Our social workers walk alongside low-income families and people with disabilities: helping them access state economic aid, offering welfare-rights advice, counselling and practical help through weekly drop-in clinics. The aim is always the same — to empower as many people as possible out of poverty and into employment or training.

We work in formal partnership with the Tirana municipality and closely with social services and the employment office, putting together packages of care that connect marginalised people with real, lasting opportunities.

A voice from the bridge

“I needed someone to believe something was possible before I could believe it myself. Roxhers and the team were that person. I have my own flat now. I have paid back everyone I owed. My mother answers the phone.”

— Erjon, now a full-time logistics coordinator in Tirana

How it works

1
Drop in

Weekly social-work clinics: welfare-rights advice, help to access state aid, and a listening ear without judgement.

2
Make a plan

A careers group, CV and interview practice, mentoring, and partnership with local employers.

3
Into stability

Legal, lasting work, debts repaid, and a family back on its feet.

Who we work with
Tirana municipalitySocial servicesThe employment officeLocal employers

“If you spend yourselves on behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness.”

Isaiah 58:10

New in 2025

Eco-Street Project

Launched in 2025 in partnership with embassies, bringing neighbours together around caring for their environment and improving the streets where they live.

Pathways to employment

Through our partnership with the Tirana municipality and the employment office, 2025 saw 34 families move from crisis and unstable income into legal, lasting work.

Ways to help

  • Fund a family's route from crisis to work
  • Offer mentoring or employer links
  • Give to the Emergency Fund

Please pray

  • The 34 families who moved into work in 2025
  • Those still waiting for a door to open
  • Wisdom and stamina for social workers like Roxhers

“Break down barriers. Build people up. Bring people together.”

Help a family move from crisis to stability — give, pray, or get involved with the work in Albania.