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Chavela Vargas
How I met Chavela Vargas Since some months ago, I didn’t know who Chavela Vargas was. I didn’t know nothing until I listened her songs through an italian version done by two italians songwriters, Dimartino and Cammarata, whose decided to write a book and record an album (“Un mondo raro”- “A rare world”) after…
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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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WHAT IS SCIENCE?
The word “science” probably brings to mind many different pictures: a fat textbook, white lab coats and microscopes, an astronomer peering through a telescope, a naturalist in the rainforest, Einstein’s equations scribbled on a chalkboard, the launch of the space shuttle, bubbling beakers …. All of those images reflect some aspect of science, but none…
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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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Belgrade here we are!
There is nothing better, during a long term EVS in a Balkan country, than visit one of the most important cities in Balkans as well as the capital of ex Jugoslavia between 1918 and 1991. Belgrade, here we are! I can suggest you three different kind of tours: the monumental tour, the bohemian-night life tour…
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Sarajevo
If it’s true what Winston Churchill once said, that the Balkans produce more history than they can consume, this is true especially for Sarajevo, a relatively small city that History has repeatedly chose as its stage-set. I don’t know exactly why, but Sarajevo is the city I always wanted to visit. Perhaps because Sarajevo is…
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Career planning
There is no one guide that will tell you where to go or what to do with your career. There will always be those, who says that you should follow your passion, the usage of this phrase is still increasing from the 90‘. And it sound nice, isn‘t? But then again, your mom says, that…
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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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Train the Trainers ”It’s up to me 4”
Braunlage, small idyllic village in the mountains of Harz In the Northeast of Germany. Attractive touristic place as well in winter and summer. Provides fun for sports such bicycling, skiing, hiking and paragliding. Place with wonderful nature, in the middle of the national park of Herz, fresh air, green landscapes and peace that everyone would…
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