Kosovo youth train as bakers, waiters to get quick jobs abroad


Rilind Babatinca prepares documents to apply for a visa, in Pristina, Kosovo November 19, 2021. REUTERS/Fatos Bytyci

PRIZREN, Kosovo (Reuters) - Dashurie Cahanaj kneads a mound of dough in a vocational school in Prizren, Kosovo, studying for a baking qualification she hopes will give here a quicker ticket out of her country than her hard-won nursing degree.

The 23-year-old, like a growing number of her contemporaries, is desperate to leave to get a job in more affluent parts of Europe, lured by better wages and wider opportunities.

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