Albania

Stats
Region: Europe
Capital: Tirana
Area: 28,748 sq km
Population: 3,600,523 (est July 2007)
Languages: Albanian, Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects
Religions: Islam, Albanian Orthodox, Roman Catholicism
Life expectancy: 77.43 years (est 2006)
Population below poverty line: 25% (est 2004)

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BMS World Mission personnel have been working in Albania since 1992, sending long-term, mid-term and short-term people to serve in a range of ways: as doctors and nurses at the ABC Health Centre, as teachers in the GDQ school, as social workers giving women in prisons skills to live on when they leave prison, and as church planters in both the capital of Tirana and in the southern town of Vlora. In 1999, the Baptist Union of Albania was formed and BMS continues to work closely with them in all of these areas.