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Autumn menu
Just before leaving some place you mostly feel a bit nostalgic. It‘s the same with me and Macedonia. Now I think how will I miss the country, the people and ohh, the food. I love macedonian food. And especially now, since Ajvar season started. Whenever you go, you see pepers, you see people preparing, you…
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CALL FOR MMUN AMBASSADORS 2018
Fifth year in a row VCS as a regional office of Coalition of Youth organizations SEGA to implement the project “Macedonian Model of United Nations (MMUN)”, we are ready to open the doors of new generation of MMUN 2018 Ambassadors /delegates/chair persons . Coalition of youth organizations SEGA implements the Macedonia Model United Nations…
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Kayak and canoe on wild waters
Kayak and canoeing on wild waters is a water sport in which competitors ride in specially designed boats for this purpose. The difference between the boats is that the canoe uses a paddle with one blade and there is also a canoe two-seater. Unlike kayaking and canoeing on calm waters, contests of so-called “wild waters”…
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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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Kalinka-Malinka
In the last week in Skopje we had Russian Culture Days organized by the Embassy of Russian Federation in Republic of Macedonia and Rossotrudnichestvo. In our city we had two amazing concert with talented Russian artists. Entrance for all interested was free and both concerts were a full house of people. On 25th of October…
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Magazine “Voices” – member of the Media Literacy Network
The Association for Volunteerism Volunteers Center Skopje, and the Youth Magazine “Voices”, became the 36th member of the Media Literacy Network of the Republic of Macedonia on Thursday. The coalition was created in order to facilitate communication and consultation between the various subjects in the country, working on raising the level of media literacy of…
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Local activities October 2017
The end of October is approaching, isn’t it time to sum up what happened this month? VCS team stayed busy, as soon as summer ended and September kicked in, boredom is an unknown term. October started with three of volunteers attending mid-term EVS training, energized after the sessions we came back full of new…
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Volunteers in Prilep
The journey started with a 7am alarm clock wake up. We then headed to the station to board the bus to the town with the monkey story behind it known as Prilep. Once we got there we met up with the Italian EVS volunteers who are based there and they were so kind as to…
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Welcome Antoine, French volunteer who speaks four languages
Hi there! My name is Antoine, I’m French, from Brittany, though I’ve lived most of my life outside the country. I’m 21 years old and I just graduated from a European Studies degree in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Besides French and English, I speak, or rather try to speak, German and some Dutch. I love discovering…
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Sport says NO to hate speech
Sports plays an important role in the development of young people. It helps maintain good physical, emotional and social health. Sport also helps combat discrimination and hate speech. Radica Stojanovska, Marija Jovanovska, Angela Spasovska, Filip Georgievski and Angela Rajcevska learned this, which were representatives of Volunteer Center Skopje and participated on youth exchange with topic…
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Rise & Fall in Breakdancing
People are gathered together, highly anticipating what’s to come. The MC announces the next dancers to step up. Adrenaline fills the hearts of the bboys and the show begins. Breakdance is a street dance style that is an element of the hip hop movement that started among African American and Latin American youths during the…
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