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DIJON: It’s not only about mustard
Dijon is a French city between Paris and Lyon. It’s the capital of Burgundy region with 152.071 inhabitants. This city is famous for the mustard. Maybe you know the «moustarde de Dijon». But forget that, there is so much cooler thing you need to know It’s very often cold in Dijon, more than the towns…
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YE in Bar: Еducation and socializing in one place
The project “Sexuality and sexual behavior among youth” was held from first to 10 December in Bar, Montenegro, where participants from twelve European and Balkan countries participated. For me and Dimitar Chukovski as representatives of the Volunteer Center from Skopje, it was a privilege for us to be part of this project, primarily because of…
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Media Literacy: A step to inclusive society
The training course “Media Literacy: A step to inclusive society” that was held in Struga, Macedonia from 30th October – 7th of November, was the perfect chance for 29 participants from eight different European countries to widen their knowledge about the media world and the cultural differences in Europe The training course “Media Literacy: A…
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The Heartbeat of Europe
How a small Dutch city became international The master of ceremony cheered. “You made it” he exclaimed, as I was carefully opening the doors of the papyruszaal, trying not to draw attention to my late coming to arguably the most important event of my university career thus far. Luckily, he wasn’t addressing me, rather he…
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Voices December issue 2017
Here, and we left 2017 behind us. In the coming days we will make a retrospective of what we have done, where we have been successful, and where we failed. And we promise ourselves that from the New Year… In fact, we should first look at our schedule and expel things that are not necessary.…
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Third NGO Fair held in Skopje
The third annual NGO Fair took place on the 6th December 2017 at the Youth Cultural Centre (YCC) in Skopje. From eleven in the morning until four in the afternoon, dozens of volunteers and organizers were busy facilitating the work of 200 participants working for the 66 NGO ‘s represented there, all under the supervision…
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Welcome Paulina, our new EVS volunteer from Poland
Dreamer, music freak, owner of two dogs, bookworm…I’m Paulina, 24-year old girl from Lublin, Poland. I did my masters in journalism and social communication. I enjoy volunteering work a lot – I was part of student organization for three years where I had a chance to work on international projects. I also took part in…
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A beautiful tribute to Chester Bennington
Linkin Park… Even if you don’t know each album by heart, I’m sure that you already heard about them. But if I’m wrong, I’ll introduce theme briefly: It’s an American band of neo-metal from California. They formed in 1996 ( the year of my birth… And I don’t believe in coincidence!) and they are famous…
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Weekly local activities of VCS (21.11 – 28.11.2017)
The real feel of autumn is upon us this month and we kept ourselves warm by doing various activities together with some students in the following high schools in Skopje. Our team In cooperation with Vasil Antevski – Dren, we started the week with the main topic ‘multiculturalism’ which was held in 3 workshops, where…
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Language Café Vol. 5 – 28th Nov 2017
Yesterday the 28th of November, it was a good and motivating Tuesday to be at Café Bar “Ljubov” for the 5th Language Café event hosted by Volunteer Centre Skopje. Language Café is an event where different nationalities come together to share their language and culture with others. The reason that it was motivating was because…
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Refuge now – always a man
Until the closure of the “Balkan Route” in March 2016, several thousand exhausted, exhausted, starving and frozen people from the war-torn states entered Greece daily in Macedonia. Ljubinka Brasnarska and Christian Mihajlovski from UNHCR, tell their experiences “In my memory, I will always have a scene when a father with two underage children tried to…
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