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Contact Making Seminar in Poland
From 1 to 8 December 2019, a contact seminar was held in Zebrzydowice, Poland, under the title “From EVS to ESC: Experimental Learning in Volunteering” organized by Fundacja Europejski Instytut Outsourcingu. The main aims of the project were: to train youth workers to gain knowledge and tools to effectively work with youth, including youth with…
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Money, money – must be funny in a waste-trash world!
Once upon a time, in a faraway place called the kingdom of Macedonia there were living 5 young very ambitious, curious, positive and know it all young fairies. So, they decided to check by the consult of the kingdom called Volunteers Centre Skopje – a place so small, yet so big by the warmth it…
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VOICES January 2020
The end is the new beginning. With every new year coming people are still not done with new hopes, plans, fantasies, dreams, ideas… VOICES team is joining this global enthusiasm and we can promise you that we are not slowing down with fantasizing! But first, let us take you to ancient times of Sámi people.…
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Zomia: An area on the borders
Zomia is the denomination for an area of the Southeast Asian Massif first proposed by Willem van Schendel in 2002, as part of a critic in Area Studies, that has since spawned a great deal of discussion and studies on this supranational area. The area varies between 200/300 meters up to four thousand meters above…
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Esperanto, the international language
Ever since I was a child, I was interested in foreign languages and while I was busy learning English (and also Russian and Latin) in high school I thought to myself: how cool would it be if there was a neutral language for everyone in the world. So I became really excited when I found…
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When White Button goes abroad…
Everybody in the Balkans – and not only the Balkans – knows the band Bijelo Dugme (english: White Button) and its charismatic frontman Goran Bregović. Not everybody knows though about many cooperations abroad that Bregović have had. These cooperations resulted in multiple covers or variations of the songs of Bijelo Dugme and other of Bregović’s…
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Voluntourism vs Volunteerism
How did I learn about the true meaning of volunteering and what it actually means to be a good volunteer? This was all thanks to a project that was held in Busteni, Romania. The project’s topic was “Voluntourism vs Volunteerism” and included participants from eight different countries with whom we worked and learned together starting…
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Negative feedback – is it effective?
To understand, how you should give critique to people in different situations you need to understand the psychology behind it. How to actually give feedback or critique to one another in a way that it actually motivate you to do better? Negative feedback triggers the defense When you think about the last moment you received…
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Why Europe? – Reflections on a blurry term
In the time of the ancient Greeks, the view of the world included three different continents: Africa, Asia and Europe and this view is still present in our modern way of thinking. Nowadays many people speak about Europe but it seems that everyone means something else. There seems to be not a clear idea of…
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The Sound of Silence
It seems that today we are surrounded by music and sounds of any type. From listening to music on smartphone, from techno concerts to a simple concert in a bar, our ears are exposed all the time. Although intended to have fun, these actions require to take different precautions! Why should we be active in…
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,,Trust me, I’m a volunteer” Barcelona – Spain 16.10-24.10.2019
In the period between 16.10-24.10 the youth exchange “Trust me, I’m a volunteer” took place in Barcelona, Spain. The six countries which took part in this project are Spain, Italy, Germany, Macedonia, Turkey and Bulgaria, with each country being represented by seven participants (six participants and one team leader). The main objective of the project…
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