It’s 9 p.m. I’m sitting on the balcony. Outside, I can hear the lively voices of children enthusiastically playing football and jumping rope late into the night. It takes me back to my childhood. When we were kids, we were always eager to grow up. We looked up to our older brothers and sisters. As…
Hello! I am Léa, a 30-year-old graduate with a master's degree in film research, living in Rouen, France. I will be spending three months in Skopje doing an internship working in the Museum of Macedonia. I've traveled extensively throughout my life (England, Scotland, South Korea, Switzerland, etc.) and I love discovering new cultures and places.…
There are days when everything feels too fast. Hours blur into one another, faces pass like shadows, and we forget that life isn’t measured by what we accomplish, but by what we truly experience. In this rush, slowing down becomes an act of quiet rebellion, a way to reclaim the rhythm of our own heartbeat.…
I wouldn’t have read this editorial a few years ago. Back then I wouldn’t read editorials, introductions, author’s notes... I was always too excited to jump straight into the article I wanted to read. Why should I read about the behind the scenes of the article? With time and experience, the world around us changes…
Dawid: As my time in Skopje slowly nears the end, I find myself naturally becoming more reflective about my volunteering journey. Stumbling upon the opportunity, struggling to write an application, accidentally missing the interview (thanks to my poor judgement of time zones) and arriving at the airport, all of this seems like it happened a…
初春風 無常迅速 春終わった Hello reader, another spring is coming. I bet you are surprised to read this beyond a word document. We haven’t talked that much lately, have we? Life has been a whirlwind of ever-changing circumstances. Although it was always like this. Change is a constant. Change is never changing. Next time we will…
Sharing… What is sharing? Before I came to Macedonia I knew that one of the main tasks is writing Voices. It’s not my main hobby to write articles but when I found out the importance of writing I was thinking deeply about what sharing is. According to Cambridge dictionary, the definition is “to tell someone…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 6 participants (+18 years old) and 1 group leader (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “Touching grass” in Romania. Place: Izvoarele village, Romania Date: 12.09 - 19.09.2024 About the project: This Opportunity is for young people to experience a bit of life in…
Since you are reading these lines, I congratulate you because it means you are reading "something". Increasingly, people have renounced themselves from reading books. It has become a complicated movement for people to pick up a book and read it. People prefer to watch short videos instead of reading written sources such as books, magazines,…
Music evokes many beautiful feelings at each and every one of us. At times, those feelings are joyous and delightful, even nostalgic, while at others, they serve as a real good remedy for when having the blues. Only a month has passed since the end of the project, but our symphony of feelings is still…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 4 participants (15-17 years old) and 1 group leader (+18 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “Landscaping in Vaunières” in France. Place: Vaunières, France Date: 9.08 – 21.08.2024 About the project: Vaunières is an ancient hamlet now run, animated and renovated by the…
Say hello to our 8 new VET students! Coming all the way from Perugia, Italia, VCS will host them in Skopje during their Vocational Education and Training projects for the next month. They will work in different places: a few in the fashion branch (company Bella), and some in a laboratory for blood analysis (Laboratory…
With April being the second month of spring, flowers start blooming and trees start turning green. Mother nature slowly but surely comes back to life as plant buds open. That’s also how the name of the month April came about, because in Latin ‘aperire’ means ‘to open’. April is the month of the birth of…
Welcome in January and the New Year! The name-giver for the first month of the year is the Roman god Janus. He is the God of all beginnings and endings, doorways, transitions, and time. With his two faces, he looks into the future and the past at the same time. In the beginning of the…
Radio and smartphones are elements of two different eras that for younger generations seem to be separated by light years. But once upon a September those two different worlds met in one place and time as a working topic of youth exchange “Re-inventing Community Radio in the Smartphone Era”. The project took place in Skopje,…
"Project in Lithuania? In the peak of summer? That sounds like a great adventure!" is a thought that crossed my mind at the same moment when I found out about the Erasmus+ youth exchange project "YOU(th) early start - Y.E.S.". If I only knew how much that thought would contribute to me and fill me…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 5 participants (18-30 years old) and 1 group leader (18+) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “Stop motion, not rights!” in Croatia. Group leader will also take part in advanced preparatory visit (APV) before youth exchange. Place of YE: Mountain Lodge Omanovac, Pakrac, Croatia Place of APV:…
As every summer comes, we are happy to host another group of volunteers from Belgium! Eniola, Ibrahim, Ranco and Bilal came to Macedonia to realize their 3-weeks volunteering project in VCS. Each with different skills, motivations, passions, they are a colorful addition to our team of volunteers. Let’s hear a few words from them. Hey,…
Volunteers Centre Skopje is looking for 3 MUSICIANS (18-30 years old) from Macedonia who want to participate in the youth exchange “mEUsic” in Spain. Place: Navarredonda de Gredos, Spain Date: 11.09 - 18.09.2023 About the project: Music is a "language" that everybody around the world "speaks". It communicates feelings, messages, cultures and much more, without the…
“What time is it? Summertime!” Let’s kick off the summer with the month of June, which symbolizes beauty in all its forms, from spring’s flowers to the sunlight heralding the arrival of summer. And what could be more splendid than starting the season with long nights, breathtaking sunsets on the beach, or a warm barbecue…