Rina Ajeti is a second-year student at Maastricht University in the Netherlands where she is pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in European and Comparative Law. This summer she volunteered as a member of the Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) research team working on women’s access to healthcare.  

 

Rina always has been interested in learning more about how the right to healthcare is implemented and promoted in Kosovo. As a daughter of Kosovar parents who raised her in Germany, she feels a strong need to explore Kosovo from a different perspective.

During her internship at KWN, she has participated in interviewing key actors in the field of medicine in various health institutions, transcribing interviews and translating them into English for other member of the research team.      Rina also has worked on analyzing the existing laws    in Kosovo, including from an international human rights and European perspective.

 

“I am looking forward to applying the existing legal framework to the data findings in order to see which gaps may exist in the implementation of laws in Kosovo,” she said.

 

During her internship, she said that she has received valuable insights regarding how one conducts research, how to work as a team and how to communicate with people of different professional fields. Also, she has learned a lot about the laws related to healthcare in Kosovo, how the system works and which gaps in implementation exist.                                                                                             

 

Although Rina completed her internship here in Kosovo yesterday, she plans to continue to contribute to finalization the report even after her departure. She is involved in writing the chapter on law, which will be part of the final publication, to be released later this year.