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GOing into a GREEN future
Interview with Angela Zimbakova the Youth Erasmus Coordinator and Assistant of GoGreen This month I visited the GoGreen office in Skopje and talked with their Youth Erasmus coordinator and assistant Angela to learn more about their NGO Can you briefly introduce GoGreen and your main mission? GoGreen is a non-profit organisation. Its mission is to…
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Message to Her
Makedonijo, vecna Makedonijo Slowly,I must begin to say goodbye to you. Strong winds of your streets,the sun burning high in the sky, they allow me to finda quiet gratitude inside me. Gratitude for your people, whose hospitality is second to none, and which I came to love deeply. Gratitude for Romani songs, and melody from the towers of mosques, that woke…
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Hinduism inside the Caribbean
I’ve talked a lot about the Caribbean already and mentioned that Hinduism is the second-largest religion in this area. How is that possible? How does Hinduism appear in the Caribbean? During the second part of the XVIII century, the British and French brought South Asians to the Caribbean and the Mascarenes to replace enslaved Africans…
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Umarèl, from Dialect to Cultural Phenomenon
We’ve all seen them at least once in our life, you know those old men that randomly observe construction sites. You’re most likely to see them with their hands crossed in the back. And if you were to ask them what they’re doing they would probably tell you that they’re just making sure that the…
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Feuilleton. In the Net of Novelist Fishermen
If you dive too deeply into the murky waters of everyday life’s troubles, you risk drowning; therefore, it’s better to grasp onto the nets of novelist fishermen. Phantom titles resemble that fattened worm that blindly tempts you to sink your teeth into the hook with all your might, as if tomorrow didn’t exist. Woven with…
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My body is my avatar
Three different people. Three completely different days. One thing in common… Sasha has just moved to a new city. Feeling lost without her friends, challenged by looking for a new job, she needs a boost of confidence more than ever. The solution comes to her while looking into a bathroom mirror. With hair falling to…
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Surviving the Dark Winter
Three years ago, I arrived in Bremen for the first time. The sun was shining, a beautiful flower market filled the streets, and I instantly fell in love with the city. During my Erasmus+ exchange, we had time to explore. On our last day, while clearly lost and trying to find something, a kind lady…
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Mental health journey to mystical Ohrid lake
Volunteers Centre Skopje hosted Erasmus+ training course “Mental Health Matters” from the 4th to the 12th of April 2025, co-organized with Stowarzyszenie Europa Iuvenis. There is a stereotype that Balkan people are more relaxed, live slower, and enjoy life more. Our daily life is usually a rush, we don’t have time to pause, find out…
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Four walls with tomorrow inside
Let me take you on a journey across the Mediterranean sea, on the coast side of the Iberian Peninsula, arriving at a colorful school in the beautiful barrio of Cabanyal, in the city of Valencia. It is not just any school, it is a Learning Community. At this school, students and parents are closely intertwined…
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Between cultures, between words, between people…
“When you step away from the familiar, you often return closer to yourself.” Sometimes, a journey gives you more than just a new destination. It gives you space – to ask the questions you’ve been carrying for months, to hear voices different from your own, yet somehow so familiar. And that’s exactly what the Erasmus+…
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(Finding solace) Betwixt the peaks and troughs
I have become accustomed to a rather mundane paysage. Green and yellow fields stretch as far as the eye can see, trying to fight against the monochromatic, alabaster clouds on the horizon that dominate the sky for most of the year. This is what characterises the East Midlands – a stretch of flat land with…
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