Freedom, Identity and Belonging - 22/11/2025

📅 Date: Saturday, 22 November 2025

🕑 Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM

📍 Venue: Central Library Islington, 2 Fieldway Crescent, London N5 1PF

Proudly representing Albanian culture in a month filled with history, pride, and heritage. A time to honour our freedom, celebrate our identity, and embrace the sense of belonging that connects us all, wherever we are in the world.

Join Merita Avdyli, Author and Founder of Successful Mothers, for an inspiring afternoon of stories, dialogue, and cultural connection.

Discover personal narratives that reflect the richness of the Albanian experience, and explore how identity and belonging evolve across generations and borders.

📅 Date: Saturday, 15 October 2025

📍 Venue: The Brasshouse Community Centre

Today, we had the honour of joining Black Country Women’s Aid in a powerful event dedicated to honouring the strength, resilience, and creativity of those affected by modern slavery.

We were deeply moved by the voices of survivor-victims and the incredible work carried out by the BCWA Modern Slavery Support Service in helping individuals rebuild their lives. There was a beautiful expression of strength and hope, by the powerful poem interpretation in the Albanian language by Nertila Kika 

At Successful Mothers, we stand in solidarity with all those affected and remain committed to raising awareness, building partnerships, and working together to create a world free from exploitation. 

Ardjana Gjoni your brilliant work makes us proud, thank you for the special invitation from your team!

An evening to cherish and celebrate the heart of every

home - our mothers! 

📅 Date: Saturday, 30th of March 2025

🕑 Time: 3:00 – 8:00 PM

📍 Venue: Illyrian Grill House, 55 Green Lane, 55A Green Lanes, London N13 4TD

Invitation to Commemoration Event on a month of Kosova's 17 Years Independence 

 A Village Slain: Where Grief Met Courage

Join us for an important and deeply moving conversation about the massacre in Krusha e Vogel, one of the most devastating tragedies of the Kosovo war. In March 1999, nearly all the men of this village were executed, leaving behind a community of women who had to endure unimaginable loss while finding the strength to rebuild their lives.

This discussion is not just about remembering—it is about honoring the resilience of these women, acknowledging their pain, and ensuring that the sacrifices made are never forgotten. Their courage in the face of grief is a testament to the unbreakable spirit of Kosovo.

📅 Date: 8th of February 2025

🕑 Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM

📍 Venue: Central Library Islington, 2 Fieldway Crescent, N5 1PF

Dashmir Thaci

MBACP, MSc Psychodynamic Counselling

Dashmir is a motivated and versatile counsellor and psychotherapist who has experience working with clients from all age groups and backgrounds with a range of mild to severe difficulties. He comes from an educational and practice-based background that has fostered a specialism in psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural approaches to practice.

Successful Mothers is inviting you to come along and talk to a professional psychotherapist, who will listen and support you free of judgement. If you don’t know what to talk about, you can start with recent life events. You can discuss “small” “deep” or “serious” issues, but remember there is no “correct” topic to discuss in therapy. Feel free to talk about anything. Dashmir Thaci is a highly qualified, experienced and registered psychotherapist offering  integrative face to face individual psychotherapy sessions, who actively listens  and helps you find ways to deal with emotional issues. Dashmir is offering practice with methods matching your personal needs and wishes.

Therapeutic intervention may prove more efficaciously designed to meet pre-established objectives. It is important to inhibit the most unsuitable habits that we create throughout life without even noticing, which can have a negative effect on our every day living. This session is a tester on developing adequate procedures to support, protect and maintain the newly acquired strengths to cope with new life challenges in the most positive ways.

📅 Date: 16th of April 2025

🕑 Time: 2:00 – 4:30 PM

📍 Venue: 2 Fieldway Crescent, Islington, N5 1PF

During this week of 20 June 2021 which was designated as Refugee Week, many members of our community participated in activities in collaboration with Shpresa Programme. While we still have some restrictions in the UK because of COVID, we still managed to continue with some educational activities specifically sharing stories, as we believe that sharing our stories is one approach to help refugees. Some of our community's most inspiring individuals shared their stories to encourage refugees to participate in their communities wherever they are.

Simply as fellow human beings, storytelling is a great method to connect and empathise with one another. We are highlighting the great possibility of togetherness while learning the experiences of others as a method to encourage refugees as we recover from the isolation, we all experienced in 2020-2021. The importance of community has been highlighted over the recent year and for the duration of the ongoing pandemic. So, we all understand now what it means to be isolated, separated from people we love. However, refugees could experience the trauma of finding themselves in a new country where may not speak the language, so working together to support each other through challenging time is the key. We cannot walk alone!