|© UNICEF video| |UNICEF supports education programmes in Kosovo
designed to encourage impoverished ethnic minority families to
enrol and keep their children in school.| In the run-up to the
20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child –
a landmark international agreement on the basic human rights of
all children – UNICEF is featuring a series of stories about
progress made and challenges that remain. Here is one of those
stories. By Peter George PRISTINA, 29 June 2009 – In a desolate
corner on the outskirts of Pristina, Kosovo, two men sit on the
bare ground, mending a bicycle that is a lifeline for their
families. Without their bicycles they could not earn the money
they need to keep their large families alive. And what they earn
is little enough because their days are spent sifting through
the city’s garbage for what others throw away. “We work in the
garbage containers, collecting tin cans, copper, scrap metal,
aluminium, whatever we can find,” Besnik Hasanik says with a
sad, gap-toothed