Why I became an EVS Volunteer: I want to become a music teacher and back home I could not find a job anywhere, so I searched out EVS and within weeks I was here! The experience I hope will help me find work or I may continue here or volunteer somewhere else. My impressions so…
Hi, I’m Martha from the UK. More specifically, a town called Huddersfield in England (1 hour from Manchester.) I actually came to Macedonia by default... I was trying to quickly save money to fulfill my dream of going to Guinea in West Africa in January but I failed. When the opportunity to volunteer in Macedonia…
On Saturday 17 March, 2012 in EU Info Centre Volunteers Centre Skopje organized interactive presentation about Youth in Action Programme during which participants could use the opportunity and get to know more about different actions of Youth in Action Programme as EVS, training courses or youth exchanges. The event was also an opportunity for long…
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…