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AUSTIN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS
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LICENSED GROUP DAY HOME (12)20 Years in the Lake Travis area.References. We have immediate openingsfor infants through age five. Near LakeTravis High School. 263-5047.
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PEOPLEPEOPLE Westlake Picayune � 9 Thursday, September 23, 2004
By Catherine HosmanStaff Writer
hen Dita Dauti-Heilman returnsto her hometownof Stanterg, Koso-vo next month,
she will journey back in time tothe war torn city of her youth.
Her mission is to evaluatethe needs of the local school de-stroyed by the war in 1999 andbridge the cultures betweenStanterg and the Westbank.
“I want to see what needsthey have and what we can do,as a community, to help anoth-er community in the worldthat is in need,” says Dauti-Heilman, a docent at EanesHistory Center. “Our littlecommunity here is almost thesame as the Stanterg I leftmany years ago. When timesare tough, the villagers wouldconvene and make plans tohelp other community mem-bers. They came together withstrength, compassion and pas-sion to help another place inneed.”
Dauti-Heilman is hoping toduplicate that personal philan-thropy by introducing EanesElementary School children tothe children of Stanterg withthe exchange of letters, notes,pictures and stories she willhand-carry with her to andfrom Kosovo.
“Our town was destroyed bythe war in 1999,” says Dauti-Heilman, her eyes welling upwith tears of remembrance.“In 1999, the entire region hadto leave. An exodus of morethan 800,000 people in lessthan a week.”
When residents of Stant-berg were allowed to return,the survivors found theirtown ravaged by the war and
their three-story school heavi-ly damaged. For safety rea-sons, the school had to be lev-eled.
“After the war, most peoplewanted to pick up where theyleft off and keep the schoolgoing,” she says. “I know howmuch they respect educa-tion.”
But it wouldn’t be until latein 2000 before school could re-sume, and when it did, it wasunder a tent with no heat towarm students against theharsh Kosovo winters.
The tent has since been dis-mantled, and 380 childrenfrom Stanterg and five sur-rounding villages now attendclasses in the shell of an oldEnglish hotel.
Although she says the min-isters of education want to re-build a school with eight class-rooms, they don’t have thefunding.
“Or the hope for fundinganytime soon,” she says.
A different kind of childhoodDauti-Heilman was one of
two daughters born to Rasimand Remzije Dauti in Mitrovi-ca, Kosovo, just outside ofStanterg, a mining town of4,500 in the mountains ofKosovo, where she grew up.She recalls a stable environ-ment in a peaceful place wherepeople were always ready tohelp one another.
“Both of my parents taughtat the local elementary school,”she says. “Children from sixsurrounding villages wouldwalk one hour each way in allkinds of inclement weather toattend class.”
While children attendedschool, mothers were at homepreparing meals and fatherstoiled in the mines where zinc,aluminum and silver were ex-tracted for commerce.
“My parents always had afull class,” she continues. “Itwas rare if two or three stu-dents didn’t come to school.”
When it was time to attendhigh school, Dauti-Heilmanwould board a city bus riddenby miners that would take herfrom Stanterg to Mitrovica.
“Regardless of how hard lifewas, at 6:30 a.m. the buswould fill with miners,” she re-calls “They may have worked a12-hour shift but would alwaysstand up to let a student sitdown. Even with their tiredeyes and swollen hands theywould greet us with thewarmest smiles and say‘That’s my boy, or that’s mygirl.’ They wanted us to have abetter life than what they did.”
In 1980, Dauti-Heilmanmoved to Pristina, Kosovo toattend the university. Whileworking in Pristina, in 1992she met and married her hus-band, Dr. Stephen Heilman,who worked with Doctors of theWorld, a New York-based reliefagency. By this time, however,Slobodan Milosevic was in pow-er and wanted to remove all re-
lief workers. The governmentconfiscated Dr. Heilman’s pass-port for one week. After beingsummoned by the interior min-istry, the Heilmans were grant-ed 24 hours to leave Kosovo.They drove through mountain-ous terrain to Macedonia andto Sofia, Bulgaria, where theyboarded a flight to the UnitedStates and were able to join herparents and sister already inAmerica.
Bridging culturesDauti-Heilman’s Westbank
home is filled with artifactsfrom all over the world, includ-ing pottery from the AmericanSouthwest. The bookshelvesare filled with tomes that tellthe history and customs of dif-ferent cultures. One of thosebooks is ‘The History ofEanes,” by Linda Vance, whichshe has studied to prepareherself as the docent of theEanes History Center.
“I became involved withthe history center two yearsago when I wanted be close tomy children’s school,” shesays of her two sons, Kron,11and Lorik, 8. “I like to tell sto-ries, and I like the fact thatEanes Elementary has therich history behind it.”
A member of the CentralTexas Story Telling Guild,where she shares her storiesof the Balkans’ lives, shefound the history center to bea perfect fit.
“It felt like I was at home,”she says. “Through the historycenter, we have a greater senseof community. Everyone comestogether and learns about oneanother and how the first set-tlers lived. I had the interest tobe there and teach third gradersthe old way because I come froman old culture myself.”
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BRIDGING culturesResident takes the heart of the Westbank home to Kosovo
School childrenwalk as much asone hour eachway, braving theelements, to at-tend school in atent in Stanterg,Kosovo.Photo by Martha Grenon
FAR LEFT:When wordleaked out to the commu-nity that DitaDauti-Heilmanwas taking thistrip, managersof Albertsonsand Office Depot donatedschool supplies.
LEFT: Dauti-Heilman andher son Krontake on theroles of anEanes pioneerfamily at theEanes HistoryCenter.
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