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VOICES Team in “Nezavisen”
We continued our journalistic journey by visiting the editorial office of newspaper “Nezavisen”(Independent ). Following our little trip to TV Alpha this time we got an insight of daily work in newspaper. Voices crew had an opportunity to observe the work of professionals; we met the director, editor, proof-reader, translator, graphic designer and journalists from all…
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The soul of Skopje
What makes a good city? What traits does it need to hold to become attractive? What qualities does it need to entail to charm outsider within its walls? What is it in them that fascinates us to the point of, sometimes literally, falling in love with them? As Charles Baudelaire put it: “What strange phenomena…
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Children laugh
Volunteer Centre Skopje made a decision to send me to Kumanovo for visiting another NGO organization “MultiKulti” for gaining new work experience with local children. I took a bus from the main station in Skopje at 08:30 and I was in Kumanavo at 09:15. Unfortunately, my phone died and I didn’t know the address of…
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Architect with an Impressive Allure – Petar Mulichkovski
One of the most significant Macedonian architects is Petar Mulichkovski. In his long career he created in almost all architectural types. The greatest impact in his work had his PhD research he did under the greatest of them all- Frank Lloyd Wright. In one of his latest phases maestro Wright was influenced by the authentic…
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South Africa
Johannesburg & Cape Town The Republic of South Africa, or as the locals like to call it in slang, “Mzansi”, can be a truly amazing place – if you are in the right places of course! Like every country, it has its good and its bad, but I will concentrate on the good because there…
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Exploring Meditation & Spirituality
A wise soul once told me this: “Life is variable. Everything is always changing – our looks, age, technology, fashion, our friends, etc. The one thing that stays constant and does not ever change from the moment we are born till we die is our breathing. We will always breathe in and always breathe out.…
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Portrait of Stoyan Christowe
The Struggle for Equality and Human Rights for Everyone Stoyan Christowe is one of the top 5 American writers that were writing on English although English was not their mother tongue. When the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt died, on his desk was the book from this writer – “This is My Country”. Stoyan Christowe…
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Game of Thrones…reality or fiction???
When I heard for the first time about this series, I thought that it was a virtual or PC game, the name sure sounds like it. Afterwards I realized that it is actually TV series based on novels written by George R. R. Martin, so in my case, the information regarding the “Game of Thrones”…
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My plan “B”
When you speak with Macedonian people about Macedonia, they say: “We can go abroad for work, but after ashort time we are back to our homeland, because this place is the best in the world and our family is here”. After this conversation I start to think about foreigners, who moved to Balkans and what…
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VOICES September 2017 Edition
September…Although is the 9th month in the year, for some reasons it is considered as a month for new beginnings…It is the months when pupils go back to school, students occupy the universities, summer vacations are over, new seasons of series begin, the city bus schedule in Skopje goes back to regular…We, from VCS and…
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Youth Exchange – “Back to Nature”
“Back to Nature” is a youth exchange, organized by the non-governmental organization “Hang-Kép Egyesület” from Debrecen, Hungary, which took place from 18.08.2017 to 27.08.2017 in Hortobagy, Hungary. “Volunteering Centre Skopje” participated in the youth exchange with its own team, made of 5 participants under the age of 18, and one team leader above the age…
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