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Welcome Paulina, our new EVS volunteer from Poland
Dreamer, music freak, owner of two dogs, bookworm…I’m Paulina, 24-year old girl from Lublin, Poland. I did my masters in journalism and social communication. I enjoy volunteering work a lot – I was part of student organization for three years where I had a chance to work on international projects. I also took part in…
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Weekly local activities of VCS (21.11 – 28.11.2017)
The real feel of autumn is upon us this month and we kept ourselves warm by doing various activities together with some students in the following high schools in Skopje. Our team In cooperation with Vasil Antevski – Dren, we started the week with the main topic ‘multiculturalism’ which was held in 3 workshops, where…
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Language Café Vol. 5 – 28th Nov 2017
Yesterday the 28th of November, it was a good and motivating Tuesday to be at Café Bar “Ljubov” for the 5th Language Café event hosted by Volunteer Centre Skopje. Language Café is an event where different nationalities come together to share their language and culture with others. The reason that it was motivating was because…
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Entrepreneurial Youths in Visual Media
,,Entrepreneurial Youths in Visual Media” was the topic of the youth exchange that was held from 26th of October to 04th of November in Balan, Romania. Representatives of the following countries participated in this youth exchange: Macedonia, Romania, Turkey, Slovakia and Bulgaria. The representatives of the Volunteers Center Skopje actively participated in the daily…
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Open Call for youth workers!
In the framework of the KA2 Capacity Building project “TrainVol” within the Erasmus Plus Programme, we are publishing the open call for two youth workers that will be engaged in the activities within the project. The overall objective of the project is to exploit volunteerism as an alternative mechanism to provide young individuals with effective…
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Welcome Aida, our new volunteer from France
My name is Aïda, I’m 24 and I come from a little town in North of France, Hautmont. I finished my last year of Master in Culture and Patrimony. I’ve decided to make a break in my studies to do a French civil service, that’s why I’m here now! Because I was interested by the…
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EVS in Bulgaria: Return to the Balkans and it’s specific spirit
I am Elena and I took part as a short term EVS volunteer in Sandanski. Bulgaria is a neighbouring country of my homeland, and I’m sure you are so curiosity why I chose this project? First of all because in the last few years I was absent from my home area and I really missed…
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Media literacy: a step towards an inclusive society
Creating greater tolerance for cultural diversity across Europe, as well as developing a critical attitude towards propaganda media products are the main goals of the project: “Media literacy: a step towards an inclusive society”, which is taking place in Struga, Republic of Macedonia between 31 October and 7 November 2017. A total of 29 participants…
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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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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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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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