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From boxing world champion to the mayor of Kiev
Being a professional sportsman is not an everyday lifestyle. Your body is your work instrument, and you cannot use it indefinitely. According to the sport’s popularity and the level at which the athlete is playing, the salary can differ. For most sports, athletes have to retire between 35 and 45, and it can be even…
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Volunteers Centre Skopje is celebrating 15 years!
15 years ago a guy went to Lithuania…… and Volunteers Centre Skopje was born. After a one-year European Voluntary Service (EVS) project in Lithuania, a 19-year-old Nikola Stankoski returned to Macedonia full of dreams and hopes for the future of youth. And he didn’t return empty-handed. He carried a little seed with the idea of…
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Среќен 15 роденден, ВЦС: Домот на волонтерството
Разговор со Никола Станкоски, директор на Волонтерски Центар Скопје Кога во летото 2004 година замина на едногодишен престој во Литванија преку програмата „Европски волонтерски сервис“ (ЕВС), тогаш 19-годишниот Никола Станкоски веројатно не можел да претпостави дека тоа засекогаш ќе му го смени животот. Желбата да се открие нешто ново, инспирацијата да овозможи учество во Европски…
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Happy 15th Birthday, VCS: Home of Volunteering
Interview with Nikola Stankoski, director of Volunteers Centre Skopje When he left for a one-year stay in Lithuania in the summer of 2004 through the European Voluntary Service (EVS) program, 19-year-old Nikola Stankoski probably could not have imagined that it would change his life forever. The desire to discover something new, the inspiration to enable…
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VOICES December 2020
For the 15th anniversary of the creation of Volunteers Centre Skopje, let’s go back to the future! Nikola Stankoski (Director and Founder of VCS) provides us with a unique insight into the origins of this pioneering NGO. He shares with us the spark that ignited his willingness to initiate this adventure with communicative good vibes.…
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Запознајте ги нашите нови волонтери од Турција: Денис, Сенем, Eнес и Ерен
Четворица млади и амбициозни волонтери од Турција деновиве го зголемија нашето семејство. Волонтерски Центар Скопје во следните два месеци ќе им биде домаќин на Денис, Сенем, Енес и на Ерен. Тие ќе работат во магазинот „Воисес“, ќе бидат од помош во Дневниот центар за деца од улица во Шуто Оризари, ќе го следат целиот процес…
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Welcome to our new volunteers from Turkey: Meet Deniz, Senem, Enes and Eren
Four young and ambitious volunteers from Turkey made our family bigger these days. Volunteers Center Skopje in the next two months will host Deniz, Senem, Enеs and Eren. They will work in the magazine “Voices”, also helping in the Daycare Centre for street children in Shuto Orizari, will follow the whole process of work in…
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Волонтирај
Сакам да ви ја раскажам мојата приказна за тоа како станав младински работник и волонтер. После повеќе од 20 години работа во канцеларија, решив да ја напуштам работата и да сменам нешто во мојот живот. Секогаш ме привлекувало да помагам на луѓе кои се нашле во неповолна ситуација и на кои им е потребна помош.…
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Volunteer
I want to tell you my story about how I became a youth worker and volunteer. After more than 20 years of working in the office, I decided to leave my job and change something in my life. I have always been attracted by helping people who have found themselves in an unfavorable situation and…
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The last EVS-volunteer
From May 2019 to February 2020 I did my nine-month EVS at Volunteers Centre Skopje in the Macedonian capital Skopje – being the last of this kind, since the EVS program is now being replaced by the ESC (European Solidarity Corps). Already after a study-visit with the Young European Federalists (JEF) in 2017, I decided…
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VOICES April 2020
We are living extraordinary times. The whole world has stopped and isolated itself and suddenly we all have a lot of time to spend with ourselves. Being apart from our loved ones is hard but at the same time this weird situation gives us an opportunity to get to stop and think our own lives,…
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