For the third time the International Citizen Media Award is announced by The Federal Association of Citizen and Education Media (BVBAM), the European Youth4Media Network Association and the Citizen Center Bennohaus in Münster, Germany. Creative and committed film and radio makers are invited to create their own report on the topic of “Citizen Media for…
The training course about learning to design social entrepreneurship ventures named “Change Laboratory: Second Floor” gathered more than thirty people from fourteen countries and took place in the beautiful city of Struga. These people were more than curious to know the way how can you match the two different ideas of profit and contribution. I,…
Hello people! I'm Frosina and a week ago I returned from a year volunteering in Sisak, Croatia where I was EVS volunteer in "Local Democracy Agency", and my task was to promote volunteering. Since about a year I can say that it was always nice, I laughed and I cried, I thought about life, about me,…
Youth Exchange "Gamestorming" was implemented by Volunteers Centre Skopje with support of Youth in Action Programme in autumn 2012. The main aim of this project was to develop creative, teamwork and leadership skills of the participants coming from 8 countries (Albania, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Bulgaria and Macedonia) through activities based on sharing traditional…
I am a “defender” of the formal education, I don’t really believe that the learning process under non-formal education is more efficient, or actually efficient at all, but I still believe that somehow I learned thing which weren’t supposed to be a useful knowledge, but more a set of skills which allows me to evolve…
The event started with the entrance of the guests in lobby of the universal hall, where there were the exhibition of the pictures and the art craft of the children of the Daily centre and CSI Nadez. After, the guests and the audience moved up stairs in the Mala Scena and we begin the event…
Goran Alachki and Bajsa Arifovska at the day of the spring invited 16 children from the Centre for Social Initiatives "Nadez" and from the Day care Center for street children to attend professional musical workshop with them in Pioneer Hall, Skopje. This professional workshop, proposed by Goran Alachki, his music school and Bajsa Arifovska, was…
Despite the rain today, we managed to achieve the second part of the promotion of the campaign “Vote, Let your voice be heard!!!”, as part of the project “Upgrading the youth involvement in the political processes”, in cooperation with the Coalition of Youth Organizations SEGA and NED (National Endowment for Democracy). The second park of…
After great 8 - days spent in Struga with cool people from 14 countries in working atmosphere where we learned how to gain and provide ideas that really should make difference in our communities. We learned how to make opportunity for everyone who wants to involve and participate in changemaking. From youth worker point of…
I spent my one-year arrangement as a volunteer in an institution for women in acute situations, where I was active directly in the admission team. There is a variety of reasons for anyone to take this step. I had several, and every one of them is equally important. Making a retrospective to the past year…
The first time for me to get in contact with volunteering and working on Youth field was back in 2009 when I came back from China and had finished my studies there. I didn’t know what to do, so I had accepted the invitation from a friend of mine to go to VCS’s office in…
The first time for me to get in contact with volunteering and working on Youth field was back in 2009 when I came back from China and had finished my studies there. I didn’t know what to do, so I had accepted the invitation from a friend of mine to go to VCS’s office in…
Dear Volunteers, Colleagues, Friends and Supporters,We have the pleasure to invite you for the event “THE ENERGY OF SHUTO ORIZARI”which will take place on Friday 1st of March 2013 from 17:00 to 19:00 in Gem Club (Menada, 1st Floor).This event is an idea of the volunteers in the Volunteers Centre Skopje, who are interested to…
Actually, my first international training course was in Arad, Romania. Because this training course was consisted of paticipants who had different knowledge in terms of mentoring and volunteering, I am especially satisfied that the training started exactly with explanation about the meaning of the term EVS. I had the opportunity to learn about the role…
Coalition of youth organizations SEGA in cooperation with volunteers from the Peace Corps in Macedonia in 2011 began to implement a new program within their operations - Model United Nations. United Nations Model is an academic simulation of the work of the United Nations that aims to educate young people about current events, international relations,…
During the project activities the participants were not just exploring roots and dimension of social exclusion but they were also sharing good working practices from their daily work and moreover also working on developing new tools that could be used to tackle and fight social exclusion. If you would like to gain better insight to…
