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Study visit “Brain Drain, Brain Gain + Circular migration”
Last week (20-27 of May 2017), in Skopje, Volunteers Centre Skopje in cooperation with the strategic partner from Germany, MEMOS, implemented study visit, which is the first mobility activity in the framework of the project “Brain Drain, Brain Gain + Circular migration”. The first mobility activity of the project connected together 24 youth workers/leaders, from…
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Why to be a volunteer?
Volunteering means spending some of your free time helping others. You may volunteer to help other people, such as the families who lost their homes after a natural disaster. But you can also volunteer to protect animals, the environment, or any other cause that you care about. Volunteering helps others, but it can also help…
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Training course “Freedom of learning” in Latvia
From 30th April till 6th May 2017, members of Volunteers Centre Skopje attended on the training course: Freedom of learning, which was held in Riga, Latvia as part of Erasmus+ programme in which participated 24 participants from 8 countries: Latvia, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Macedonia and Portugal. One of the main activities of which…
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TrainVol Project: VOLUNTEERISM AS A VEHICLE TO SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY
A new project “TrainVol: Capacity Building of Civil Society to Strengthen Volunteerism Management and Promote Volunteerism Among Youth” aims to facilitate young people, and particularly youth with fewer opportunities, into social and labor market inclusion, utilizing volunteerism as a vehicle to skills development and employability promotion. The adoption of volunteerism as a mean to achieve…
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“No Hate Speech” Workshops
As a part of the Erasmus + project ”ARAHS- All raise against hate speech” Volunteers Centre Skopje is holding for “No Hate Speech” workshops in high schools. Since a lot of high school students were interested, we visited again the high school SUGS “Brakja Miladinovci” in Skopje but this time the workshop was held…
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European Peer Training Organisation (EPTO)
Volunteers Centre Skopje, starting officially from April 2017, has become new member of the “European Peer Training Organisation” (EPTO) network of organizations, based in Brussels. The members of EPTO are various CSO’s, which are coming from different countries from the European continent. In that occasion, members of the VCS team attended the annual event…
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Welcome to our new EVS volunteer from Poland – Aleksandra Grzyb!!!
“Hello! My name is Aleksandra, Ola for short if you prefer, I’m 26 years old and my home town (Gliwice, Poland) is 1360 km away from Skopje. I treat EVS as an opportunity for development and new discoveries. I finished French and English linguistics, my personal interests lies within languages, gender and cultural studies, yoga…
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˝FEW + MORE = INCLUSION˝
Youth Еxchange ˝FEW + MORE = INCLUSION˝ is a title of a youth exchange that connected 47 young people (including the leaders) coming from 9 European countries France ,Spain, Poland ,Estonia,Romania ,Turkey.Cyprus,Croatia and the host Macedonia who are discussing together on many topics connected with young people with fewer opportunities and their inclusion into society…
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Italy, Sicily, Erasmus+, intercultural company, sun…
Another Erasmus+ project with a lot of optimism, excellent mood and a topic from which we can learn a lot. From 4th to 12th April, as participants on Volunteers Center Skopje from Macedonia we participated in the training course “Leader Training: With Media Literacy towards Cultural Awareness and Tolerance” project that addressed on issues while…
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“ALL RAISE AGAINST HATE SPEECH” – PART 2
Diversity is the best expression of freedom. If diversity bothers you, you are born on the wrong planet. And that is why you should not attack what you don’t know. Those were the main messages from the training that took place in Bar, Montenegro from 03-12 March. Our organization send three young volunteers to participate…
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