Minister of Education and Sports Ogerta Manastirliu inspected the works being carried out at this school, which is expected to open its doors at the beginning of the new school year.

“Ndre Mjeda” is undergoing a radical transformation and capacity expansion, so that to have single-shift teaching, with modern classrooms, smart and science laboratories, a library, recreational spaces, a gym and sports fields and access for every student”, said Manastirliu.

Further on, she appreciated that, “Ndre Mjeda” will host about 700 students and 60 teachers, offering good standards not only in the teaching process, but also opportunities for cultural, sports and creative development of students”.

The reconstruction project of the school also includes an additional to the 3-story building, a new gym with a usable terrace, as well as the installation of a new heating and cooling system. The school square will also be readjusted. /k.s//a.f/p.s./

In a message shared on social media, Spiropali described Mjeda as a brilliant contributor to Albanian culture and language, whose work added “strength, beauty, richness, and dignity” to the national identity.

“The legacy of Ndre Mjeda is a cornerstone in building our national identity,” Spiropali said.

“He was a voice that awakened the suppressed conscience of Albanians, a rare defender of our culture and language. As a teacher, poet, translator, clergyman, and patriot, Mjeda served his nation with a mind enlightened by knowledge and a heart inspired by ideals of liberty and the Albanian language.”

A key participant in the Congress of Manastir (1908), Mjeda was part of the commission that standardized the Albanian alphabet.

Spiropali noted that Mjeda’s legacy lives on through his lyrical and patriotic poetry, quoting one of his best-known verses from “Gjuha Shqype” (The Albanian Language).

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Prime Minister Edi Rama shared today in the social media a view of Marko Prendi’s farm.

“Marko Prendi, the 26-year old from Mjeda village, in Vau i Dejës has set up a unique venture, “Butterfly Farm”, the first of its kind in Albania and in the Balkans”, wrote Rama.

PM Rama also wrote that, “Prendi, graduated in Environmental Biology, has decided not to leave the country, but has been able to combine perfectly well his profession with the business he has started up, growing 1500 butterflies inside a fairy garden, which he aims to develop further into a modern destination for tourism, education and scientific research”.

According to biologists, in our country there are 205 kinds of butterflies and the most beautiful of them is “Danaus chrysippus” or as they call it the plain tiger or African monarch and is found mainly in Karavasta area.

Butterflies are therapy for people. For children, they are medicine and a stimulus for consciousness in mental development. Like bees, they are responsible for the continuity of life on earth. Thanks to the pollination of flowers, they achieve fruiting and the reproduction of plants. /k.s/j.p/p.s./

The complex, the Church and the house, built by the poet by himself in the neoclassical style survived the time of communism, becoming one of the unique centers of historical and cultural tourism in Albania.

Built in 1906, Mjeda’s house was transformed into a museum-house where there are exhibited the poet’s personal belongings, photographic materials, academic writings, books and many of his objects. The two-story house has been transformed into an exhibition, where among the most important items is the poet’s writing desk, over 100 years old, where he wrote the most beautiful works in Albanian.

Since 2012, “Ndre Mjeda” Museum Center in Kukël holds the status of Category I Cultural Monument.

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