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VOICES April 2024
With April being the second month of spring, flowers start blooming and trees start turning green. Mother nature slowly but surely comes back to life as plant buds open. That’s also how the name of the month April came about, because in Latin ‘aperire’ means ‘to open’. April is the month of the birth of…
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Разбирање на среќата
„среќа, именка. Состојба на пријатно задоволство на умот; длабоко задоволство или задоволство со нечии околности.“ – Оксфордски англиски речник. Луѓето трагаат по среќа уште од античко грчко време. Според Извештајот за среќа во светот од 2023 година, Финска е најсреќната земја во светот, а Авганистан е на другиот крај од листата. Како се мери среќата…
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A sailors’ life
The earth has everything to offer and so much more, yet we think about migrating to the cosmos. Similarly the mainland has plenty to offer, yet we pull to the seas. I was born with sailors’ blood in a sailors family. From before I can even remember I’ve been taken along on boats and surfboards.…
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VOICES October 2023
We have already entered October, which does not make you feel that summer is over, thanks to the sweet rush on the streets because of school. Since the arrival of the new year is closer, this month we take a look at the current year and say “how quickly did we get to October?”. Be…
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Save endangered animals!
Have you ever wondered about some animals that we know may not exist anymore in the years to come? There are so many endangered animals because of humans. I’ll give a few examples: rhinos, elephants and even gorillas. Elephants are dying because humans kill them for their ivory. Rhinos are being killed because of their…
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Борбите од средновековите во живописниот Преспански регион
Во средината на летото, Волонтерски Центар Скопје беше домаќин и ко-организатор на младинската размена за проектот: „HMB soft and HEMA as a tool for battling youth inactivity” што се одржа во Љубојно, Македонија. Триесетина учесници од Македонија, Хрватска, Србија и од Франција, во периодот од 26 јули до 3 август ги учеа основите на HEMA…
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HMB soft and HEMA as a tool for battling youth inactivity
In the middle of the summer, Volunteers Centre Skopje co-organized a youth exchange in Ljubojno, at Prespa lake. The project “HMB soft and HEMA as a tool for battling youth inactivity” took place between 26th of July and 3rd of August and gathered Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and French teams with an aim to learn the…
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Game is on! EuroVolley 2023
Sport as always brings a lot of entertainment, joy and also spectacularity. From 28th August to 16th September, in the next 21 days the whole European Volleyball world will have a long-awaited Championships which will take place in four European countries, including Macedonia. One part of this championship concerns the women’s side and these competitions…
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Extraordinary world of martial arts
Extraordinary world of martial arts Martial arts have gained great popularity worldwide. However, not every country exclusively focuses on conventional forms of the sport. Since 2018, Poland has been hosting a unique type of fights known as “Freak Fights”, which had already been seen in other places earlier. Let’s explore this intriguing topic and its…
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Заминување и збогување: неизбежен чекор во волонтирањето
Збогум, тој неизбежен чекор што сите треба да го направиме во различни периоди од животот, но сепак, некои од нас го избегнуваат како вирус. Кога сме со пријателите и на крајот тргнуваме по својот пат, – велиме: „чао, се гледаме“. Затоа што сите знаеме дека овие збогувања не се вечни, бидејќи се гледаме подоцна, нели?…
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Leaving and saying goodbye: the inevitable step in volunteering
Saying goodbye, that inevitable step that we all have to take at various times in our lives, yet some of us avoid it like a virus.. We all say it every day: when we walk into a shop and then leave, we say “bye”; when we’re with friends and at the end we go our…
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