This year, students from Fier, Lushnja and Mallakastra, as well as from other cities and regions across the country, will be provided best contemporary education conditions thanks to an investment worth 105 million lek to completely renovate and upgrade the artistic lyceum in Fier. Adding new premises and classrooms in the school where music, visual art and choreography are taught has significantly increased teaching quality.

Prime Minister Edi Rama visited the artistic high school in Fier, an education institution whose history began over 50 years ago, but no infrastructural interventions and upgrading projects were developed for decades.

Mayor of Fier Armando Subashi said that the former dormitory premises have been reconstructed to expand school capacities and modern classrooms have been built to introduce choreography as a new subject due to be taught at this school.

The school principal explained that the artistic school has expanded to incorporate now three buildings and house the primary, nine-year and secondary education schools. “This main central building houses classrooms for the three education cycles,” she said.

The Premier visited some of the school premises where figurative art is taught, as well as the school’s new gym, which previously failed to offer even the most basic conditions for normal conduct of teaching process. The new infrastructure helps the pedagogical staff in their daily work.

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The urban renewal program of the Fier city center has also affected the area along the Gjanica River in the southern city. The Gjanica River rehabilitation project and works to requalify the city’s centre are about to complete. The Gjanica River bed is being rehabilitated to transform the area into an important natural asset of Fier’s urban area and the project is also designed to build a central square currently missing in the southern city.

Freeing public spaces and providing direct access to the river; expanding green spaces in the area, mainly along the river banks and the streets; rehabilitation of the underground and surface infrastructure; designing a series of mini-squares and streets to provide links with the city’s central square are some of the main objectives of the project, which will provide a new urban dimension to the city.

Works to rehabilitate the Gjanica river bed are about to complete. Works to reconstruct two existing pedestrian bridges and build a new bridge have completed. A new underground parking lot and the tile cladding of the city’s central square and the green areas along Gjanica river have also completed. The Gjanica River rehabilitation, reconstruction of the existing bridge and construction of a new bridge, dedicated bicycle lanes, construction of the buildings’ facades, lighting installations and the green spaces are part of the project designed to transform this inherited urban mess with illegally built constructions into a social and recreational space the city lacked to date.

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The urban renaissance program, an Albanian government project aimed at transforming and promoting important features of Albania, with a great focus on upgrading the development centres across the country, is completely transforming public spaces in the town or Roskovec, in Fier district.

The urban transformation project has now expanded to the residential areas in the south-central Albania town. Construction of the new municipal building is about to complete, while work is underway to construct the town’s main thoroughfare, pave streets and alleyways with cobblestone, rehabilitate the buildings facades and clad first floor walls with natural stone tiles. Rehabilitation of the residential area No.2 is also about to complete, with works featuring intervention in the engineering, water and sewerage network and the rehabilitation of the buildings’ facades.

Prime Minister Edi Rama visited the town of Roskovec to closely inspect the ongoing urban requalification works, which include an area of over 3,5 hectares.

Roskovec Mayor Majlinda Bufi provided details on the ongoing project, which kicked off with rehabilitation of a number of derelict buildings and removal or buildings ruins that used to cause chaos and polluted the area. She highlighted the new municipality building which features modern infrastructure and is set to house all public service delivery offices in a single one stop shop. The existing municipality building, the town’s oldest structure, will be transformed into a cultural tradition museum.

“The whole area undergoing urban requalification includes more than ​​3.5 hectares. The project includes a series of other buildings around and along the town’s main square. The entire part of the underground infrastructure related to the drinking water supply and sewage system has completed. Work goes on with rehabilitation of buildings’ facades, with the first floor walls being cladded with stone tiles, the plastering of the buildings and their painting. The project also includes lighting and creation of green spaces. The new municipality building will house all local service institutions. Two main squares are being build, with one of them designed to host various events organized by the municipality. A green space and recreational park will be dedicated to children and the elderly. Few old and derelict buildings were located here, but they have been demolished and completely removed. The existing building, one of the oldest ones built in 1926, will be transformed into a museum to showcase part of the tradition of Roskovec and a wider area,” she explained.

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The newly renovated health care centre in the town Roskovec, one of the 300 centres being reconstructed across the country as part of Albanian government’s program on rehabilitation of health care centres, has been completely transformed to offer now a range of services and the latest international standards in primary health care.

The centre has been rehabilitated, expanded and equipped with new equipment in an investment project worth EUR 200,000.

Health personnel say the centre’s renovation and the new modern equipment have significantly improved service and access to the primary health care, as number of outpatient visits have increased significantly.

Prime Minister Edi Rama visited the new health care centre, which provides 24/7 care services to around 35,000 local residents in the Municipality of Roskovec and the surrounding areas. The Minister of Health and Social Protection Ogerta Manastirliu said that the rural health centres offer service standards similar to other facilities in urban centres.

According to the centre’s director, with the new conditions and modern equipment the care service delivered at this health centre has improved significantly and patients are satisfied. “I work for 14 years here. This centre offers health care services to around 35 000 residents in Roskovec and the rural areas, including residents in the bordering areas with the city of Berat, who choose to receive care at our centre. Quality of service has improved significantly and patients are satisfied,” she said.