Orphanage project — Zyber Hallulli
We are providing a desperately needed new kitchen and food preparation area along with general fixing up of the orphanage.
Announced October 2025 · Tiranë, Albania- Projects delivered or underway
- 10
- Towns and villages served
- 7
- Foundation established
- 2014
- Gifts are tax deductible
- 501(c)(3)
Current projects
CurrentOrphanage repairs and fix-up, new kitchen equipment and food preparation area.
CurrentLaptops and tuition funds so Albanian students can finish college and trade school at home.
Past projects
A shelter near Tiranë that had served Albanian women for years — but had no working kitchen — fully repaired and re-equipped.
A K-12 school in a small rural village, repainted and re-floored, with a playground added.
A playground at the Baba Rexhepi elementary school in Lazarat, doubling as a community playground — plus the gathering place next door where the town's elderly meet.
Repairs, cribs and supplies for an infant orphanage left damaged by the earthquake and short of funding.
Our purpose
UNITE
The Albanian Faith in Every Footstep Foundation is focused on uniting friends of Albania to support community-based humanitarian, educational and good will projects in Albania
ESTABLISH
With a desire to help those in disadvantaged circumstances, especially children, many friends of Albania, including past missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established the foundation in October 2014.
SERVE
The foundation offers an exceptional opportunity for friends of the Albanian people to serve together in meaningful ways. Please join us by making a tax-deductible contribution or becoming involved in the foundation's projects.
EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, AND LITERARY PURPOSES
Every gift goes to the next school, shelter or orphanage on the list.
How the work happens
Albanian Faith in Every Footstep Foundation volunteers travel to Albania and gather with locals to complete foundation service projects and to provide physical and financial assistance to local Albanian charities and organizations. The foundation aids in youth and adult education and business development programs.
Community
Our mission is to sponsor community-based humanitarian, educational and good will projects in Albania. We hope to serve and build friendships with the Albanian community in meaningful projects for those in Albania who are most disadvantaged—especially children.
Humanitarian
Our first project, on October 9, 2015, a group of Albanian Faith in Every Footstep Foundation volunteers traveled from the US and gather with local volunteers for a day of service to provide physical and financial assistance to Albanian charities and organizations.
Education
We serve and build friendships with the Albanian community in meaningful renovation projects for those young children in Albania who are most disadvantaged. The Foundation supports advanced education for Albanians through tuition assistance and providing computers.
Service
Each year we pick several service projects to support those that are most in need. Service project include school renovations, hospital projects, disaster aid and service to families in need.
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Friends of Albania, serving together
With a desire to serve the people of Albania, especially children, many friends of Albania, including missionaries and mission presidents of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints established the Albanian Faith in Every Footstep Foundation in October 2014. The mission of the foundation is to sponsor community-based humanitarian, educational and good-will projects in Albania.
The foundation offers an exceptional opportunity for friends of the Albanian people to serve with and build friendships with the Albanian community in meaningful projects. We are working together to help those in Albania who are most disadvantaged—especially children.
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Our board
Returned missionaries, an in-country board member in Tiranë, and families who keep going back.
A founding member, in Albania since the missionary work opened there in 1992.
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Twenty years in airline technology, and a household that asks for qumësht.
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Lives in Tiranë; oversees the foundation's work on the ground in Albania.
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Served as a senior missionary in Pogradec with his wife Virginia.
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Served in Tiranë, Durrës and Elbasan from 1999–2001; a city planner in Idaho Falls.
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Has returned to Albania as a State Department intern, a university recruiter, and a friend.
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Taught Albanian at the Missionary Training Center; says her soul is Albanian.
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