The participants of our local project "Bridging Divided Communities by Youth Work" will realize in April several social campaigns tackling for example the issue of student’s mobility or gender inequality. One of these campaigns with title "Feed your Brain, instead of your Body!" already started this week by publishing two questionnaires one in English and…
The skiing began hesitantly, but after the first few moves confidence and trust was built among all participants. Thirty two young people from ten European countries, started working together quickly on defining the concept of conflict. We discussed about the conflicts we face in our life and work, and then tried to determine their positive…
Volunteers can get involved in the work of their Youth Centre where they can help children with homework and schoolwork, make creative workshops, play social games, have outdoor activities, sports competitions and much more. It is upon your preferences to choose what kind of activities you would like to do and how often will you…
Wishing to go for international training course? Become EVS (European Voluntary Service) volunteer? Discover other countries and cultures through youth exchange or training course? Do not know where to start?Come on Saturday 17 March, 2012 to EU Info Centre for interactive presentation about Youth in Action Programme. We will start at 11:00 and during 2…
Volunteer Centre Skopje was a partner on international training course in a place near Bucharest, Romania. Three representatives from VCS were present on the training course, with main subject on “How to make better understanding of the position Mentor and how to train better mentors for the needs of the organizations”. More than 30 young…
The training course Unite unite Europe was about discovering the European citizenship and the benefits from it. We had a chance among other activities to make a short research and get in touch with local communities and to speak with them about the main topic. It was really interesting to hear different opinions and points…
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Gender inequality, mobility among students, diet and nutrition, human rights, LGBT community are some of the key words of social campaigns on which are now working participants of our local project Bridging Divided Communities by Youth Work. For more information please check out the project website. Next week on Tuesday will join VCS team 3…
The exchange in Struga, on the occasion of the carnival in Vevcani, gave us many experiences, including the opportunity to learn how to work in a team, improve our English language, as well as the opportunity to learn about other languages. We also met many people from different parts of Europe, with whom we became…
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VCS, in 5 years of accreditation for EVS volunteers, has sent more than 70 domestic volunteers, in the countries all over Europe. The most open and interested countries for EVS volunteers from Macedonia are the countries from the near surroundings, like Bulgaria and Slovenia, the central European countries, like Germany and Poland, and the Baltic…
With the help of Katarzina, a volunteer from Kreaktiv, we started during the summer 2011 a cooperation with non – profit organization called Sumnal. We organized ecological workshops with Roma teenagers. We did two workshops. The first one happened in the park as a treasure hunt, and the second one in the office of Sumnal,…
Here I met more international people. At the beginning, I had to check on the internet information about this small country, I only knew that the capital of Macedonia is Skopje, but since I didn’t pronounce it correctly, suddenly I got really interested in reading and searching for more information about the Balkans. Few weeks…
Luckily, we got our way through the airports , and to city Adana where the coordinator of the project should have waited for us in order to take us to the terminal destination. While we were waiting, covered with “we aren’t from here “ facial expressions that showed us up (as the coordinator mentioned later…
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Curiosity, discovering new cultures and the need to search for something new are some of the reasons that made me go to Poland. I think any country on Earth has its own beauty and has something unique to be seen. Wrocław - the city where I live now is the fourth largest city in Poland.…
On 7 January started youth exchange Youth for Culture – Back to Vevcani 2012. For six years young people coming from all around Europe have an opportunity to take part in one of the oldest Macedonian tradition – Vevcani carnival which is being celebrating for more than 1.400 years and this year is not an…
Why I decided to become EVS? Hi everybody !! my name's Awa, I come France, La Ciotat; It's a small town near Marseille ... yeaaaaah Olympique de Marseille (OM) lol ... I love football as you can see ... :) Why Macedonia ?? I'm here for the project about VOICES magazine and to meet some…
Why I decided to become EVS?The reason why I am EVS is that I couldn´t find a job in my country, and if I can´t find nothing to do in my country, why not to do something in another country. I think it is a good opportunity to learn about other culture, to make new…
5th of December - the international Volunteers Day, celebrated everywhere in Europe. For this occasion Volunteers Centre Skopje had several promotions of volunteer activities, as well as big party where many local and international volunteers had the opportunity to meet, to show off their volunteer work and hobby trough pictures, videos, juggling, DJ-ing and other…