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SoliDAREiTY
Interview with Ivan Sterjovski What is your position and contribution to SOS Children’s Village? I am the Project Manager for “Youth Empowerment Enabling Prospects 2” (YEEP) for Macedonia. The project aims to empower youth at social risk and facilitate their access to the labor market. We achieve this through life skills and employability training, career…
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Why do you smoke?
The intensity, stress, and crowd of daily life often drive individuals to seek ways to escape these pressures. This search sometimes leads to choosing a calm and solitary lifestyle, while at other times it may result in turning to unhealthy coping mechanisms. Such choices can gradually develop into habits and eventually evolve into addictions. Addiction…
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Sunny Rays
Eyes are the window into one’s soul One polished fresh – some dirty and old Scratched from cold moments and sunny days Shining bright in sunny rays – but only reflected by broken glass Some eyes seeing more than others can not fathom Holding memories deepThe eye contact once soft now hard as steelBoring into others soft like clay …
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VOICES May 2026
There was a time when paper had weight. Ink stayed. It marked your hands, your day. Now it slips past us, screen lit, endless, forgettable. In Macedonia, print is not dying loudly. It is thinning out, quietly. Fewer pages, fewer kiosks, fewer reasons to hold something real. We scroll instead. We consume faster than we…
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2026 IS THE NEW 2016
Can you believe that 2016 was ten years ago? Ten years after its peak, the electronic music of 2016 is back in the spotlight. Driven by a wave of nostalgia on social media, an entire generation is rediscovering the anthems that once defined festivals and dance floors. Let’s be honest for a moment. If you’re…
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An elephant doesn’t fit in our company
There was once a girl in the tiniest small town you can imagine. For the purpose of this story we can call her Fanny. We first meet Fanny in kindergarten. She is not like the other girls, playing with dolls and being all the mothers want their little girls to be–a gentle, well-behaved being. Instead,…
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Cat-human connection
Once upon a time, there was a family that decided to adopt a kitten. A black, big eyed animal quickly became the purrfect addition to a family of five. The family now had two teenage girls and two babies. The babies—one with fur and the other one who just started to learn how to walk.…
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“I always say, I’m a writer,”
She says. “But when somebody asks me what I do? Where do you work? I think, oh man.” Because the answer is not that simple. Everybody likes to watch movies or theaterplays but who are the people that start it all and lay the base of the play months before the curtain falls for the…
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A center full of artists
A bowl crafted before our eyes out of paper maché. Necklaces, bracelets and other jewellery made from pearls and stones. Photographs, drawings and paintings of all kinds of things and people. These are only a few of the things that are being created at the occupational center for people with disabilities run by NGO KRIK…
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Economy of Global Warming
The history of agriculture in Macedonia can be traced to an ancient period more than 8000 years ago. The fertile region of Pelagonia is one of the first regions on earth where humanity started agriculture. In the past the weather was perfect for farming and pastures. However, with the recent negative shifts connected to global…
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