Bonjour! My name is Sarah. I come from France. It is the first time I come in the balkans. I chose this place to do my EVS because I thought that the life here is different that the life we have in France. If you travel, it is to learn no ? Before arriving, I…
Hi I'm David from Poland. I live in Wroclaw, but I was born in Skopje. How I decided to come back in hometown as an EVS?When I was visiting my friends in Skopje during the Christmas holidays, I met two Polish girls who were doing the EVS. I was curious to know what were their…
Hello, my name is Robin and I come from France from a city called Lille. Actually I’m born few kilometers from Lille in the city of Roubaix, no particular interest for you to know this except that this city of Roubaix and Skopje are twins city! So probably it is not some kind of coincidence…
Impressions of MacedoniaIn writing this short piece, I was conscious of the need to avoid that question most often asked of travellers, “was it as you expected?” The simple truth is that I came to Macedonia expecting nothing; or rather, hoping to experience everything the country has to offer. So perhaps less an avoidance…
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…
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,…
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…
On Thursday, 1st of December 2011, the EVS volunteers from VCS made a local action in the high school “Vasil Antevski- Dren” in Skopje. The action was part of the program of the Volunteers Centre Skopje for celebrating the 5th of December, the International day of voluntarism. The volunteers prepared cookies, they gave away flyers…
If you are in MUSIC do not miss an opportunity to join two workshops of DJ, record label owner, festival organizer and EVS volunteer Koen. Both workshops will take place in office of Volunteers Centre Skopje located at Emil Zola 3 - 2/3, closed to Rampa in Kisela Voda. Everyone is welcome to join. Workshops…
We also made some theatre. We had also great opportunity to express ourselves during AHA Space, space for learning, findings, feelings, facts and joker. We tried not to follow the polish –complaining stereotype, but nobody is perfect, so one AHA-space changed into group therapy ;) What was surprising – people who never met before listened…
Why? During my Erasmus I became addicted to the Balcan culture and spirit and I decided to do everything to come back to my Wonderland. I promised Alexandr The Great to see him again and I always keep the promise ;) how do I do? Till now my life here looks like heaven. Should…
Why I wanted to become an EVS volunteer: The reason of becoming an EVS volunteer this year is because I didn’t want to start the university yet. I wanted to take a gap year to think and to do a different thing to what I was used to. I thought that doing EVS was a…
From the 5 to the 10 of September, we went, together with Manu, Kuba and Krysiek (volunteers from Struga), Miguel and Anita (volunteers from Bitola), to the on-arrival training in Sarajevo. We left Skopje at 8pm and after only 15 hours by bus we arrived to Bosnia, cool as cucumbers... During the training we had…
Description of the project: I am writing for a magazine for young people that is called VOICES. The monthly issue of the magazine is published in 3 languages; English, Macedonian and Albanian. The EVS volunteers work together with the local volunteers. Each edition has one main topic, the other articles concern EVS, what is happening in…
Description of the project:Здраво на сите! I came here from Sardinia (Italy) to work in the “Voices magazine”. I’m really happy to be involved in this project because it’s a great opportunity to see from the inside how editorial staffs works to create a magazine. I also have the possibility to work with the children…
Description of the Project:My main project is to be involved in the work of VOICES magazine, mainly by writing articles. I would like to concentrate on a cultural life of Skopje and general Macedonia and other Balkan countries. Since I studied Tourism Management in my home country, I would also like to travel around Macedonia…
Description of the Project: During my European Voluntary Service I shall write for VOICES; the monthly magazine published by the Volunteer Centre for young people in Skopje. My aim is to write articles about cultural events in and around the city, highlighting music festivals, concerts and the like. Since I have been working as an…
On Sunday 21st of May a group of EVS-volunteers from 3 different countries gathered together to show the local people of Skopje why it is important not to throw garbage on the street and to show how they can use plastic in a very creative way. The volunteers made some interesting clothes and instruments, presenting…