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Albina Tahiraj

Kosovo Leadership Academy
Mitrovica, Kosovo 40000
Email: albina@kleadershipacademy.org

April 13, 2019

Director Biljana Markovic Stamenova
Executive Director
Macedonia2025 Summit
Skopje 1000, Macedonia

In November 2018, I was one of the KLA students that attended the Macedonia2025
Summit. It was a great opportunity for me as a student to go out of my country and
learn more about problems of the other countries and meet some people that want to
change their country.

Thank you for your generosity and letting us be part of the Macedonia2025 Summit.
In this letter I want to share with you some thoughts regarding the impact that the
summit had on me.

First, I really liked the idea of bringing to Macedonia different people of different
positions, from different countries and who then share from different personal
experiences. In this way they work together to come up with new ideas of how to
change Macedonia.

The second emphasis that impacted me was that this meeting wasn’t just about how
to change Macedonia, but it was how to change yourself too. Different leaders came
to the summit and talked about character and how to become leaders. They had
experienced different lessons throughout their lives and shared these with the
attendees. The person who talked about leadership really impacted me. To become a
successful leader, we should know that failure is the “closest friend” of success.