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ЕVS in Portugal, Project “Agueda Volunteering Land”
I come form Kocani, Macedonia and I’m 21 years old. I am part of an EVS project called “Agueda Volunteering Land”, witch is taking place in Agueda, Portugal. Before I start speaking specifically about my project I want to share few things for my EVS experience in general. I’m on EVS together with seven other…
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Realized what I am not to do
So it is 2019. New Year, new projects, and I am sure there will be plenty of those, but for now, I want to go back a little bit, to the end of November 2018, when we had a seminar “Volunteering: Step Forward to Entrepreneurship and Employability”. If you heard anything about it, that means we…
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We are cool, we are volunteers!
Volunteering is one of the most beautiful experiences that a person can experience. Being a volunteer means to act with the society without expecting a financial or material reimbursement in return. In order to raise awareness of the benefits of volunteering and to encourage young people to take initiative, a youth exchange with a duration…
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Project YES – Youth European Strategy 2
It’s the friends we meet along the road that help us appreciate the journey. Excited to meet each other from the very beginning we shared positive energy by drawing our portraits and remembering our names. The ice-breaking and bonding games helped us to get to know each other better. We did some energizers and officially open the Youth European Strategy 2 project. Looking…
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Volunteering in an elderly house
421, this was the number of the bus that I was taking every Wednesday to the neighborhood of Keçiören – not very far, but also not near from the center of Ankara. When I got out from the bus I could reach the elderly house in 5 minutes. Between April – May 2017 I did…
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Youth exchange “Photo-I”
From 30.09 – 08.10.2018 the group of six young people from Macedonia took part in Youth Exchange “Photo-I” in Nasutów, Poland. The village is situated at the edge of the local landscape park and has around 1100 inhabitants. Nasutów is located 12 km away from Lublin, the biggest city on the east of Poland. …
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STEP FORWARD TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP
My name is Omer and I am one of the lucky ones that got the chance to attend the Training Course “Step Forward to Entrepreneurship and Employability’’ which was held between 26 September – 2 October 2018 in Milicz, Lower Silesia region of Poland. First thing I need to admit that training was very well…
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Empower vulnerable youth, empower yourself
Life-changing, inspirational, open minding, amazing, valuable – these are just few words that participants used to describe their impressions about Training Course “Empower Vulnerable Youth: Theater, Creative Writing and Emotions in Focus”. Training Course was held in Struga between 15th – 23rd October and was organized by Belgium partner Art of Box together with Volunteers Centre…
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COOLture – New Trends, New Stories
Between 5-7th October Macedonian group of youngsters had a privilege to take part in project COOLture – New Trends, New Stories in Belgrade, Serbia. Project was implemented by The Municipality of Vračar and NGO BUM in cooperation with partners from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Slovenia and Macedonia. This project is realized with the support…
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SARDINIAN SUMMER STORY
I already knew where I`m going and with whom I`m dealing with…Sardinia was probably my best experience ever. An island that is so wild and challenging but still so friendly and laid back people. Some of the most amazing sunrises and endless sunsets to be seen here that attracts people from whole Europe to come.…
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STUDY VISIT “EVS as one more step toward INCLUSION”
1-9th of September Macedonia hosted the second part of the study visit called “EVS as one more step toward INCLUSION”. The nine day visit included visiting many associations and NGOs around Macedonia, to give the participants an opportunity to make contacts for future endeavours. As the project started we had the first energizers to get…
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