Liri Berisha

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Liri Berisha in 2009

Liri Berisha (born July 5, 1948 in Tirana , Albania ) is a pediatrician , president of the Albanian Children Foundation and ambassador of UNICEF .

Life

Liri Berisha is the daughter of Rexhep Ramaj Balidemaj, an Albanian ethicist from Montenegro , and Milica Bulatović, who was born in Belgrade . It was originally called Slobodanka, but was renamed the Albanian form Liri after the political break between Albania and Yugoslavia .

She graduated from the medical faculty of the University of Tirana with success. In the same year she married the doctor Sali Berisha . The two have two children and six grandchildren. Liri Berisha subsequently worked as a pediatrician.

The fall of the communist dictatorship marked a key phase in her life when her husband Sali Berisha led the student movement to overthrow communism and found the first opposition party, the Democratic Party . In 1992 Sali Berisha was elected President of the Republic by the first pluralistic parliament .

Liri Berisha, as the president's wife, was committed to helping sick children. She was elected President of the Albanian Children's Foundation "Domenick Scaglione", which takes care of seriously ill, disabled, orphaned and marginalized children. One of the priorities of their engagement was reducing child mortality.

In 2008 Liri Berisha founded the Mother Teresa Cultural Foundation . A year later, she was named Woman of the Year by the Women's Information Network .

Liri Berisha is Honorary President of the UNICEF office in Albania, which is committed to the rights of children to education, recreation and health care. Berisha has been appointed local ambassador to Albania and Kosovo , specifically for UNICEF's global initiative to prevent and cure tetanus in mothers and newborns in the Central African Republic .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FACSIMILE: A e ka correction January më në fund emrin e nënës në Gjendjen Civile, zonja Berisha? www.gazetadita.al written on May 26, 2016, accessed on February 1, 2020 (Albanian)
personal data
SURNAME Berisha, Liri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramaj, Liri (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian UNICEF Ambassador, President of the Albanian Children's Village
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tirana , Albania