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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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A way to be… different ?
Look around you : tattoos everywhere. I have some, and I think you too, or maybe one of your friend. Tattooshops everywhere too… even in the small town, incredible ! Nowadays a tattooshop is essential as well as a bakery! Apparently, this practice is embedded in our society so let’s travel a bit through time and the…
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Endure
Transcontinental Race (TCR) – one of the youngest events on the bicycle map of Europe. The adventure of TCR started only five years ago in 2013 and was inaugurated by late Mike Hall. The fifth edition of the race was a special one as originator’s death preceded the event which called TCR into question. This…
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Crazy about salsa
It’s Saturday night in Skopje, we are in a club and the place is full. Everybody is looking well dressed and good. Lot a people are smiling, swinging and twirling. Just watching them dancing, we can feel a good vibe and energy everywhere. But it’s not a club like any other, it’s a latino club!…
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Voices January issue 2018
It appears unexpectedly. Usually, it seems wrong to us and destroys any ideal that we stick to it, when it comes to love and what it should be. It comes with so much ease that we do not believe it is possible at all. We can not explain the connection that we establish with words…
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Portrait of Blagoja Sotirovski- The Authentic Green Design
One of the most influential designers from this region in the so called area of the horticultural planning is Blagoja Sotirovski. Unfortunately due to the discretion agreements that he had to sign and which hide the authorship and due to his great modesty, as well, this designer of parks and green areas remained locally almost…
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Stop feeling sorry, start acting
Who would know that even though summer ended every one of us is snuggled in warm blankets and winter jackets, meanwhile visiting Turkey, for my surprise i did not expect to take a swim in the sea. Mersin, a city located in the south-eastern part of Turkey, near by the Syrian border. A city where…
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12 hours journey, lifelong 7 days experience!
Another cold autumn day, clouds surround my city and first rain drops dance on my window,the phone makes a sound. E-mail from Volunteers Center Skopje: “Do you want to take part in the on-location training about learning design in the frame of the project “LeaD in Practice” in Athens, Greece?” Three phase project, online, on-location…
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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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Youth exchange in Romania “Get Empowered,Get Employed”
Hi. Our names are Ariton Bajrami and Amir Xhelili, and the following is a summary of our amazing stay in Baile Tusnad as youth workers. We were chosen and sent to this program by our local organization in Skopje called Volunteers Centre Skopje. “Get empowered, Get employed” was a program within the Erasmus+ program and…
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Intercultural communication at its best
Probably a milestone in Erasmus + programme, a training course with participants from 27 countries representing their cultures and working on minorities issues. Youth workers learning new methods how to combat minority discrimination and learning about the situations and realities in different countries. Interactive work and sharing of good practices is the core of non-formal…
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