The Baker

Soldiers aren’t the only ones working to make a difference in Kosovo, Stefanovic Milutin, owner of Pekara Breza, a bakery in Lesak, which is part of the TF Ibar area of responsibility, has worked with KFOR by making food and sponsoring a local multi-ethnic scout camp in the summer.
“Since KFOR came in this area I have had interaction and cooperation with all the nationalities that have been in this area,” says Milutin. “I provide them food delivery as well as groceries, and they come by my restaurant as well as the bakery to eat.”
In addition, Milutin, who has been a scout for 35 years, has helped organize and sponsor a local multi-ethnic scout camp in past years, and is planning another for July.
“We’re trying to give kids an opportunity to develop a relationship with nature,” he says, “and the most important part is friendship.”
“With help from the French [commanded Multi-National Task Force (North)], we had a multi-ethnic camp in this area, where we involved the kids from all the areas of Kosovo, as well as guests from Serbia, and France.”
According to Milutin, the 2006 camp included Kosovar children from Albanian, Turkish, Roma, and Serbian ethnicities. And this year he’s hoping for more scouts from across Europe.
“With the camp, we have proven that we can actually live together… and by the end, the kids were saying goodbye to each other with tears in their eyes. So we’re hoping that this year we’re going to continue the tradition of the multi-ethnic camp,” says Milutin.
“We are actually going over boundaries that are set up [in front of the children],” he adds. “When we’re talking about boundaries I think borders, language, as well as ethnicity, or religion boundaries… so we’re trying to go over those.”