Breaking stereotypes, prejudices, creating new friendship crossing the boarders is the key message of youth exchange Let’s dance for crossing borders organized by Swedish organization Viksjöforsbaletten with support of Youth in Action Programme from 2 to 9 June in Viksjöfors, Sweden. And Volunteers Centre Skopje is glad to be part of it. The youth exchange…
In June 2012 Volunteers Centre Skopje implemented with support of Youth in Action Programme partnership building activity - "PBA: Better Cooperation: Better Europe" which provided participants coming from all around Europe and opportunity to build new partnerships and develop ideas for future projects. And we are more than glad that one of the ideas born…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is glad to announce that will take part in training course "Woman for Planet" organized by Epeka Slovenia in June 2013 in Maribor – European Capital of Youth 2013. The main goal of the project is to informally educate the participants and provide them with necessary skills and knowledge on the field…
The activities started with team-building activities where we had to learn more about the interesting local facts of the town of Judaberg. After, we took part in brainstorming about characteristics of a good leader, intercultural learning activities and a game called Dignityland, where we needed to make a sustainable social policy for our imaginary society…
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…