Book 'Uta and the Mountains'

Uta and the Mountains Children’s Book. The book describes Uta’s journey from childhood to the ascent of the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest. This book has educational content, which deals with topics such as nature protection, women’s rights, and work as a means to success. The aim of the book is to inspire children to see the wonderful opportunities that life brings, many of them beyond the ordinary, and to increase their curiosity and confidence that dreams can come true.

Uta has held many reading sessions with children, donated books, developed social media quizzes and campaigns targeting topics of the book.

Uta received many heartwarming messages and drawings of kids who were inspired by her story and want to follow her footsteps.

The book is written by the author Tefta Kelmendi and the lovely illustrations are the work of the macedonian illustrator Katerina Nikolovska. The realization of this project has been made possible as a result of Utalaya foundation’s cooperation with UN agencies in Kosovo (UNWOMEN, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and other entities of the UN Kosovo Team (UNKT), Municipality of Prishtina, Ministry of Culture,Youth and Sports, Studio Permanent and Vi-Print.