Community Development Center “Today for the Future”

“Today for the Future” is a leading organization in Albania serving for mobilization and empowerment of communities in need of help.
Driven by the vision as well as using innovative methods, “Today for the Future” has scored successful approaches of gender empowerment, volunteering and activation of young people, protecting the environment, mediation for employment and other different services as well as the participation and community mobilization. “Today for the Future” works hand in hand with the local government, national and international agencies as well as civil society and private sector.
Having gender equality and the partnership amongst men and women as one of the main priorities “Today for the Future” is the author of the national anthem “Bring the Sun!” in which many Albanian artists and ambassadors who campaign towards gender violence have collaborated.
“Today for the Future” is spread nationwide with its programs also having three main centers located in Tirana, Durrës and Pukë.
The Network is an expression of institutionalized and informal community movements that have been consolidated since 1998, as the pursue of the empowerment and mobilization programs to undeveloped and in need of help communities. The Community Center “Today for the Future” in Durrës is located in the suburbs of the city known as “Ish- Këneta”, an informal area with a population of 60,000 people. This area is characterized by a diverse population coming from various minorities from internal migration and in need of major infrastructure changes, legalization of buildings, public services etc.
In 2007 the experience and the success of this Community Center was stretched to one of the poorest regions in Pukë marking the beginning of “Today for the Future”, Pukë.
In 2013, being registered as a legal entity the Community Development Center “Today for the Future” opened its Regional Center in Tirana covering many development programs for other areas of Albania.
The Network “Today for the Future”, implements these programs in Shkodër, Pukë, Lezhë, Burrel, Durrës, Tirana, Elbasan and Korçë, as well as cooperates with its partners and local governments in Kukës, Peshkopi, Librazhd, Pogradec, Fier, Berat, Vlorë, Gjirokastër and Sarandë.