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Welcome Tanguy, the new volunteer from France!
Bonjour, Hello, Zdravo! Let’s introduce myself: I’m 20 years old, I come from France, from one of the biggest city in France – Lille! It’s a very nice city and I spent good time there since my birth! I just graduated from my Bachelor’s degree in Sciences in Audiovisual and Media Technology. I enjoyed going…
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Fast&Furious: “Macedonians in Italy”
As exciting as it gets with Erasmus+ projects, once again, there we were, the Macedonian team all nervously waiting at the airport to finally “touch” the sky, at the end landing in beautiful Italy. We arrived a whole day earlier than the other groups, so we sought to see some of the many beauties Italy…
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CUTE Journey to Hortobagy – The power of volunteering
Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer. This is maybe the best description of the impact of volunteering for the people. Because volunteering is a way of living that brings happiness, promotes compassion, unselfish caring, patience and love. With these values, 32 young volunteers from Hungary, North Macedonia, Poland and Romania went…
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Representative of VCS in Jazak, Serbia: “Save our waters”
Six representatives of Volunteers Centre Skopje took part in youth exchange “Save Our Waters”, happening in Jazak, Serbia in a period of 6-15 September 2019. Gathering 36 young people from 6 countries (beside Macedonia, also Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Lithuania and Romania), this 10-days program improved their knowledge about the importance of water protection,…
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Sauna and Finland…
When we open our eyes in the mornings, our everyday life begins from that moment on. In the olden days, the eyes of many Finns opened for the first time in the sauna. It was a place that was considered the purest place for birth, for example. Many lifetime excursions finally ended up in the…
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Adulthood Certificate. Have you signed yours yet?
When we are born, that moment is registered with our names on a piece of notarized paper that makes it socially official. When we marry, or die, the absolute same. This sheet is, I believe, more than just useful for institutional and bureaucratic reasons, but also meaningful, because we are beings of symbolism, too. Our…
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Desert Man
One day I was going to the metro and saw a man standing on the pass way, selling snacks. When I walked the same pass way at 12 AM, he was still there, about to pack his stuff. I looked at his face and saw no tiredness (at least it wasn’t visible). I saw a…
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The benefits of walking: Three reasons to take a walk
Ever since the existence of the Homo Sapiens the humans were wandering and discovering new places and territories. The whole human-inhabited world was basically reached by foot for thousands of years in history. Walking is the oldest, easiest and most basic form of human mobility. But in our nowadays modern society more and more people…
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VOICES September 2019
Summer is coming to an end, the days start getting shorter and the heat that we could enjoy (or suffer from?) will step by step transform into the chilly wind of autumn. But life goes on and every ending also includes the beginning of something new! So here’s a new edition of VOICES! Like already…
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What it really means to be CUTE
There are a few moments when life gives us a chance to become better people. This youth exchange organized by CUTE that took place in Struga from the 6 th to the 15 th of July was one of those chances. What started as a project with usual workshops and a goal as many other…
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Lazy birthday to all busy people!
In our time and age we are constantly running. The media is telling us not to waste our time. “Time is money”, did you ever hear that phrase? I did, and I still do. Be careful, it is not far from being engaged at work to being addicted. That’s why on 21st of July we…
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