Human Rights, Social Activism, New Friendships, and Portugal

In the course of 8 days, three wonderful, smart people from the organization Rota Jovem transferred all their knowledge on human rights on to 24 young promising people. Day by day, we tackled the most important topics related to human rights. Are they truly universal? How can universal human rights be applied in a culturally…

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Coaching and interpersonal skills for youth workers in Poland

The topic of the training was ‘Coaching and interpersonal skills for youth workers’. The person responsible for implementation of the program was experienced trainer from Poland with rich international experience. For me it was big honor and pleasure to be present and participate to his session and workshops. He shared with us interesting methods, games,…

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Seven days European – Mediterranean cooperation in France!

Although out thick fog had lowered, in the dining room echoed six different languages, but vociferously listened French. With smiles and kindness were all greeted. Emily and Sarah Dzhofri were representatives of the French organization CEMEA, which organized the seminar, and after their recommendation, we continued  in the workshops, which served as place for work…

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Nobody is free of stereotypes: Living Library 2nd edition

“I was surprise that I can also discriminate…” A comment from one of the book after the living library closed that made us think about the need of this kind of events. Events that give everyone a possibility to challenge their perception, stereotypes and made people realize that nobody is stereotype free. On 27 November…

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‘Living Library: 2nd edition‘- Everyone has a story to tell

  Motivated by the feedback from the visitors and books themselves the second Living Library will open on 27 November at 15:00 in City Library, ‘Braka Miladinovci’. Books are persons where based on their profile or experience a title of a book is presented and they can be borrowed by the visitors respectively the readers.…

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Call for Volunteers for Living Library in Skopje

Last year Living Library organized by Volunteers Centre Skopje attracted more than 150 people that came to meet face to face various ‘books’ (vegan, young entrepreneur, Roma person, Muslim, heart emigrant, volunteer, gay, animal right activist, mum with child with autism) and get to know their life stories. This year Living Library will take place…

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Join the RUGBY team

Dear volunteers, The RUGBY workshops will start soon!!! The first one will be held at the end of this month, the registration is open until 24th of September. To register please send your contact info (name, surname, phone number) to our e-mail address: : vcs_contact@yahoo.com. There is no fee, no age limits, no gender discrimination,…

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