Life for me is about creating yourself. Being a young adult who just finished a high school, I seek to challenge myself in various activities and look forward to learn something new. Nowadays, volunteering is one of the best opportunities for a young person to see the world, gain experience and try unexplored things. Working…
Hi everyone,My name is Quentin but no one can pronounce it so I already have a surname here. I come from a little place in north west of France, near to the sea and I'm here in Skopje during one year for my EVS project. I like traveling, playing or listening music, watching movies and…
Hello, my name is Michaela and I come from Opava, a beautiful small town in Czech republic. I studied Faculty of Economics at the University in Czech republic. I like traveling, meeting new people and exploring new cultures. There were many influences that went into my decision to select the project in Macedonia. I have…
I love also Balkan and actually have been in Macedonia just one day a few years ago, so not so long time ago, and that's why I choose Macedonia for living. I like traveling especially hitchhiking because it makes feel me free and I would like discover all the Balkan by that. I like also…
VCS volunteers Marko, Jacopo and Monika participated in on-arrival training organized for EVS volunteers held in Strumica, 14-16.4.2015. Training was filled with useful information and interesting facts, but the best part was the possibility to meet other EVS volunteers from all over the Macedonia and to share our EVS stories. Connecting, exchanging and learning is…
Hello my name is Jacopo, I am Italian and I come from Trieste, but I have been living for a few year in Paris. I just arrived in Skopje for my EVS in VCS. I am really curious to know more about the Balkans and Balkan culture since I have lived not so far away…
Hello! My name is Marko and I am coming from one beautiful region in Slovenia, called Bela Krajina. I was few times before in Macedonia and that is the main reason why I came here. I just love this country and these people...and I have a lot of friends here. I have learned a lot…
I have been asked to write few sentences about me. As easy as it might seems, this is a rather difficult task for me. I am not my name (Monika), nationality (Slovak) or age (erhm, no comments). Instead to tell you more about me, I´ll tell you what I like. I like the smell of…
My name is Michal Krizan. I come from Slovakia and I decided to do my EVS because after university studies it is good to attend an internship abroad because it can give you many new skills. I have chosen Volunteers Centre Skopje for my EVS because I found their project called VOICES magazine very interesting…
For some reason I liked the Macedonia most of all Balkan countries. It was love from the first sight!I dreamed about to come here for longer. And here I am! I managed to win the competition for an internship at the university. Sanja helped me and I enter the gates of the VCS. I came…
I liked it and applied for at least two main reasons. First of all, it's an opportunity for me to learn about how we run and design a magazine because I didn't have the chance to do that before. Then, it offers me the opportunity to improve my writing skills and thinking about what…
We had 20 minutes review and speech on the radio; together with my friend and coordinator Gjoko Vukanovski about the program of the European Commission called “ERASMUS +”, which contains almost the same actions and activities from the last program for young people, called Youth In Action. This Erasmus + contains 7 different subparts containing…
Already from the plane I saw an extraordinary view comparing to region I’ve been living for one year till now. Green meadows, straight streets and huge, flat space covered with woods, villages and fields everywhere! Not even a single hill visible, forget even having thought about a mountain! But green and clean. And still not…
During his EVS project each volunteer has precious possibility to participate in many different workshops and trainings. One of them is on-arrival training in which with the greatest pleasure I took part 21-26.10.2013 in Sarajevo, together with other volunteers from the Balkans. The point of on arrival training is to better understand own role in…
All of that because of my love to the Balkans, which I decided to try out… I lost my heart somewhere here few years ago and since then it was impossible to live in the other place. During next 12 months I will be writing for “Voices” and also will be involved in other VCS…
I will never forget how it all started. I decided to come through Albania and I have to say it was a good decision because after that experience nothing could ever surprise me anymore. I took a minivan and everything looked normal until the moment when my friend left me inside alone. There were too…
I’m happy I got this chance, cause after all the excitement of being in Macedonia for eight months it would be a hard tide to just get back home not knowing exactly what to do next. For me it feels like I’m sort of postponing the actual coming back this way. In fact the only…
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…
Dear volunteers, we invite you to take part in the next debate workshop which will be held on Thursday, 14TH OF FEBRUARY in our office (Emil Zola 3-2/3), starting at 17:30h.Come with fresh and open mind and be ready to use and improve your rhetoric skills! It's planned that we start with some simple exercises…
Those volunteers will create a huge cohesion between them because they are working all together but also living together. Each of them comes with different history, different social belonging, different opinion and way to do things but in one same project during a period of 1 year maximum. Those conditions create a cohesion between the…