| Pinkland
The Pinkland youth center serves youth aged 12 to
20 in Banovici, a small mining town near Tuzla left
devastated by the war. Thousands of people in Banovici
remain unemployed, and those who have jobs often make
low wages. As a result, many young people do not have
their basic needs met. Local schools are poorly equipped
and there are few professional teachers. Schools cannot
themselves afford to offer extracurricular activities,
and there are very few places in town for young people
to
socialize.
Pinkland was created to fill some of these social,
cultural, and recreational gaps. The center now offers
classes in computers, music, painting, woodworking,
and dance, as well as sports, summer camps, and picnics
to more than 1,350 youths. Kids can also spend unstructured
time at the center, reading books, watching TV, or
listening to music. The counselors provide therapy
to children in need, and sometimes families, friends,
and teachers are included in the therapy process. Pinkland hopes to become self-sustainable by the end
of 2008 through its music recording studio. In January
2007, CBD staff visited
Pinkland and decided to help the center acquire additional
music equipment so they can attract more musicians
to the studio as well as continue to organize an annual
international ethnic festival.
In April, CBD received a donation of darkroom equipment
from a photographer in Lexington, Mass. After finding
out that a container was leaving for Bosnia in two
days, CBD packed up two
enlargers, timers, lenses, condensers and other
darkroom equipment and prepared it for shipment to
Pinkland.
List of
Priority Equipment that is Required by Pinkland
to Become Self-Sustainable
Please contact CBD at 978.461.0900 or info@balkandevelopment.org
if you are able to donate any of this equipment.
Music Department
Dynacord D15/3 – 3-way speaker
Behringer B1800 pro bass speaker
Allen & Heath PA28 24 channel mixer
Alto MAC 2.4 power amplifier
Audio Technica MB/Dk7 microphone set for drums
Alesis DM5 drum module
Recording Studio
Behringer Composer pro MDX 2600 compressor
Behringer Ultragraph Pro FBQ 1502 15-band stereo
graphic equalizer
Universal Audio UA 6176 or
Avalon VT 737 pre-amps
Alesis Midiverb 4 voice processor
Computers
Laptops
Sports
Martial art helmets (kung-fu)
Martial art gloves (open, kung-fu)
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