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The story of love on the first sight
Once upon a time there was a small family with six children and one mother. The family was from Volunteers Center Skopje. This family originated from a country of kind and warm people. The country was entrusted to the Balkans, and was one of the most attractive places for people who love mountains and nature.…
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Welcome Doris, our new Volunteer from Poland!
Hello Everyone! My name is Dorota, but friends call me Doris (because I dont really like my name). I came to EVS in Macedonia so I could get out of my comfort zone which I had in Poland. I’m not a travelling person at all, so I’m really suprised that I actually decided to move…
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Welcome Ewelina, our new Volunteer from Poland!
Zdravo, everybody! I’m Ewelina and I’m coming to this sunny land from Poland. I developed the curiosity to discover other countries and cultures and enough courage to go and explore the world, but still I didn’t develop the ability of talking about myself so I don’t even know where to start. Maybe I should start…
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Annual EPTO event
On 22-23 September, Volunteers Center Skopje, represented by Andrej Naumovski and Vasko Joshevski, was participating in the Annual EPTO Event for Members 2018. It was a regular meeting of members of the EPTO network held in Modica, Sicily, and hosted by the non-governmental organization Attiva-Mente. During the event, representatives of organizations from Belgium, Romania, Portugal,…
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Welcome Astrid, our new Volunteer from France!
So many things happened in my mind!! Many questions and many fears! But that’s exactly why i’m here: to cross my limits. I don’t wan’t my life to be guided by fears anymore. I’m Astrid, a French girl aged 27 yo. I just got my diploma as a specialized educator and for me this is…
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ЕVS in Portugal, Project “Agueda Volunteering Land”
I come form Kocani, Macedonia and I’m 21 years old. I am part of an EVS project called “Agueda Volunteering Land”, witch is taking place in Agueda, Portugal. Before I start speaking specifically about my project I want to share few things for my EVS experience in general. I’m on EVS together with seven other…
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Realized what I am not to do
So it is 2019. New Year, new projects, and I am sure there will be plenty of those, but for now, I want to go back a little bit, to the end of November 2018, when we had a seminar “Volunteering: Step Forward to Entrepreneurship and Employability”. If you heard anything about it, that means we…
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We are cool, we are volunteers!
Volunteering is one of the most beautiful experiences that a person can experience. Being a volunteer means to act with the society without expecting a financial or material reimbursement in return. In order to raise awareness of the benefits of volunteering and to encourage young people to take initiative, a youth exchange with a duration…
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Project YES – Youth European Strategy 2
It’s the friends we meet along the road that help us appreciate the journey. Excited to meet each other from the very beginning we shared positive energy by drawing our portraits and remembering our names. The ice-breaking and bonding games helped us to get to know each other better. We did some energizers and officially open the Youth European Strategy 2 project. Looking…
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Volunteering in an elderly house
421, this was the number of the bus that I was taking every Wednesday to the neighborhood of Keçiören – not very far, but also not near from the center of Ankara. When I got out from the bus I could reach the elderly house in 5 minutes. Between April – May 2017 I did…
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Youth exchange “Photo-I”
From 30.09 – 08.10.2018 the group of six young people from Macedonia took part in Youth Exchange “Photo-I” in Nasutów, Poland. The village is situated at the edge of the local landscape park and has around 1100 inhabitants. Nasutów is located 12 km away from Lublin, the biggest city on the east of Poland. …
