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Welcome Emma – our new volunteer from Belgium!
Hello everyone! I am Emma and I come from Belgium. The next 3 weeks I’m going to spend here in Macedonia. From the AFS organization in Belgium, I heard about this project and now I am here. Macedonia is very different from Belgium so I could go out of my comfort zone. I am rather…
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Welcome Dina – our new volunteer from Belgium!
Hello from Dina, from the organization ASF from Belgium. I am 18 years old. I came together with my friend Emma to Skopje, whom I met on a meeting 3 weeks ago, to work as a volunteer in the capital of Macedonia. The organization in Skopje is VCS. I will go to the Daily Center…
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The next Erasmus generation from Barcelona
This June Volunteers Centre Skopje accepted the third generation of interns from Barcelona, Spain in the frame of the VET program (Vocational Education and Training) of the Erasmus+ programme. Our partners, the association Mundus have sent us five interns for hosting to work in intercultural environment, to expand their knowledge and experience in their specific…
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It is up to me!
So far I have come up with one life conclusion, It is up to us, to our self how we will organize, enjoy and fulfil our life. It is up to me, how much I will learn, in which field I will develop my skills and knowledge, it is up to me who will be…
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Welcome Johanna — Our volunteer from Finland!
Let me introduce myself, my name is Johanna and I’m the newest Finnish addition to the volunteer team at VCS. We Finns are slowly taking over, as there are four of us here already! After working on an Erasmus+ training in May I was introduced to the EVS and ESC programs. I was presented by…
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Welcome our new volunteer from Finland!
Hi everybody, I’m Emilie, 27 years old human being from Finland, living in Helsinki. I came here to volunteer for a month and I’m going to spend my time doing mostly the VOICES magazine. I’m happy that I can put my skills in use here as I’m a graphic designer. I’ve never been in Macedonia…
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Welcome Soma, our new volunteer from Finland!
Hello, My name is Soma and I am coming from Finland. I will spend the next three weeks in this lovely country. Time is limited so I want to experience and do as much as I can. I am also very curious to discover the amazing nature and meet new people from different backgrounds. Life…
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Welcome Sascha, our new volunteer from Germany!
My name is Sascha (not Alexander! Yes, Sascha is a real name in Germany) but my friends call me Snorre. I am from Magdeburg/Germany. After almost ten years of voluntary-work in the field of non-formal youth-education, telling school-kids how useful and awesome a long-term mobility-experience is, I finally got to making such an experience myself…
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Storytelling, a youth exchange in Barcelona
One of the greatest gift you can give people, is give them your time. This is a mindset I personally live by, and it inspired me to do more. When I was in high school, I got to know more about the volunteering opportunities, organizations in Skopje had to offer. I engaged in many activities…
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Head in the clouds
I read some old texts of mine, and discovered a text from over two years ago, when I was in my first Erasmus+ training course in Struga, Macedonia. I wrote how I will someday go and do my EVS somewhere; I wanted to be a volunteer. That time, I had no idea that two years…
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General overview of my three months on EVS
I came to do my EVS to Portugal at the end of September, and so far my experience here has been one of the best things in my life. There are a lot of reasons for that. First of all, the project I’ve been working on, Agueda Volunteering Land, has succeeded to go further than…
