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…
Getting up at 5 o’clock on the morning showed out to be completely reasonable in order to see this mix of scary paganic and funny modern style costumes represented on Vevcani carnival. Already on the beginning of the morning there started to appear bright August the Stupid characters which were doing everything according to this…
Meanwhile Raphael, another volunteer from France, have been going to Daily Center with Sarah in order to film these activities. It succeeded in the end and the video of workshops has been made to document all these activities and show to kids how great job they were doing. Finally the shows were presented on 26th…
Volunteers Centre Skopje in cooperation with the citizen’s association “Lulka” and the Municipality of Kisela Voda, on Monday, 24th of December 2012, starting from 5 P.M, will organize panel discussion on the subject “Pregnancy and delivery- With the right information leading to healthy pregnancy and healthy baby”. The panel discussion is open for every citizens,…
As part of the 5th December activities, team members from Volunteers Centre Skopje were also on the radio… I hope you had a lot of fun and you were listening to us on Student FM, because we for sure had a lot of fun there!!! :)
Are you curious about “Far East”? Are you eager to find out more about their culture? Do you want to learn something about Chinese Language and culture? This is perfect chance for that. Volunteers Center Skopje has a pleasure to invite you for the "Chinese workshop" which will be held on 11th December 2012, from 17:00…
Volunteers Centre Skopje, in cooperation with the municipality of Kisela Voda, on the 5th of December, the International Volunteer Day, starting from 17:00, will organize panel discussion on the subject “Volunteerism as a tool for activation of the youth population”. The panel discussion is open for all citizens, NGO’s, legal subject and other. The location…
The participants of the training were divided in four mixed groups, and every activist group take part in the creation of website, hosting social media blogs. My group have choose a topic for school dropping, so each group made video about the problem in their society, and that problem was presented to the improvised mayor.…
Volunteers Centre Skopje invites everyone who is interested to be active, to learn something new, refresh their knowledge, make new friendships, practice English, French or improve journalistics/dance skills to join us in this week's workshops which our EVS volunteers prepared for you. Write us an e-mail about which workshop you are interested in to take…
During 7 training days we were discussed topics like skills for better youth employability, gathering and spreading of labor market information, advocacy and lobbying for youth rights in labor market, minority groups of youth in labor markets (migrants, IDP’s, refugees, ethnical or national minorities), inclusion of minority youth, intercultural learning, etc. Besides having a good…
In June 2012 Volunteers Centre Skopje organized with support of Youth in Action Programme youth exchange SAY YES TO RURAL DEVELOPMENT. The project connected young people coming from Slovenia, Poland, Serbia and Macedonia and provided them an opportunity to develop their knowledge about rural development, eco-tourism as well as to contribute to the development of…