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Skopje Fortress of Skopje Skopje Fortress of Skopje elcome W eam VCS Dear volunteers, Welcome to your EVS, welcome to T Macedonia! In this Information Guide NIKOLA STANKOSKI you will find some basic information Executive Director about Macedonia, Macedonian capital Skopje, your project and activities Actively involved in NGO sector from 2004. Having you can get involved in. personal experience as EVS volunteer in Lithuania in 2005 and participating in various mobility activities But at first we would like to introduce implemented under Youth in Action/Erasmus + program ourselves. We are staff workers of and other mobility programs. Strong knowledge in VOLUNTEERS CENTRE SKOPJE. the field of project andfinancial management gained through preparation and implementation various grants opportunities. Being part of policy making group focus especially on creating and implementing voluntary law in Macedonia. Phone : +389 78 323 0397 E-mail : [email protected] IVANA ANGELOVSKA bout Us I’m coming from Skopje. A In the world of NGO and non-formal education almost 10 years. I joined VOLUNTEERS CENTRE SKOPJE is a non- VCS in 2013 when I started to be part governmental youth organization created in of the local activity and organizing 2005 by former EVS volunteers. and impleneted workshops for The main goal of the organization is to give youngsters. With VCS I did my short term EVS in Bulgaria from 2013 to 2014. I’m regional coordinator of MMUN non-formal educational possibilities to the (Macedonian Model United Nation) of VCS for coalition young people, in different fields, in local and SEGA. From January 2016, I’m EVS coordinator and I international level; to promote the idea of manage local and international activities in Volunteers volunteerism and to connect young people Center Skopje. without reference to their nationality, religion, political,economical or social status. We are Phone : +389 77 645 710 E-mail : [email protected] putting effort to develop a multicultural civil society, to reinforce the existing democratic GJOKO VUKANOVSKI structure, to enhance the affirmation of young people through their individual abilities and Coming from Skopje, I did skills, and to connect the young people with my Master studies in Political the purpose of their closer cooperation. sciences (European Institutions and Policies). Now I’m EVS & More information about our organization you European Project Coordinator in can find on our web site: www.vcs.org.mk our office responsible for sending and receiving EVS volunteers, coordinating the meetings for the youth magazine VOICES, organizing international Links : events in Macedonia, developing partnership with other VOICES magazine : http://issuu.com/vcsvoices organization on European level and etc. Blog VOICES : voiceskopje.org Phone : +389 78 374 719 E-mail : [email protected] Address of the office : Emil Zola 3-1/3, Kisela Voda, 1000 Skopje What is EVS ? European Voluntary Service (shortly EVS) is a partnership between two or more NGO´s. The EVS is funded by European commission and aims to improve young people skills. Volunteers participate in EVS through the sending organization in the country where they live and the receiving organization that receives and hosts them during their period of project. You will receive free accommodation, food, insurance and pocket money and language courses. You can work in a wide range of fields such as culture, youth, sports, children, cultural heritage, arts, environment, and development cooperation. In the end of your project you will receive a certificate confirming your participation – The YOUTHPASS. In each EVS project the treatment, accommodation, tasks, working hours and days of work for the international volunteer vary from one EVS project to another, therefore the choice of an EVS project is very delicate and very important phase. REMEMBER : That European Volunteer Service is an experience that you can make only once in lifetime (you can make first short time EVS till two months) and after a long term. Not the opposite! But in total time period 12 months, so make sure to take the best of it ! entor Your mentor will be around you during all your EVS. What is the role of the mentor ? What can you expect from your mentor ? The mentor will help to M arrange practical things and stay in Skopje. During the first days he/she will takes you around the city, shows the most important and interesting places. During the whole project the mentor will help you with practical arrangements and other issues. You will have regular meetings with your mentor and share with him/her your expectations and your possible issues or problems. Your mentor will be another person who will try to make your EVS the best experience. Mentors in our organization are mostly university students and/or young people who were by themselves EVS volunteers or willing also to become EVS too. ctivities A VOICES, DAILY CENTERS FOR CHILDREN FROM THE STREETS, PROMOTING VOLUNTEERISM, PERSONAL PROJECT are the key words of your EVS project. Being part of VOICES magazine includes making research on the topics, writing articles, making interviews, coordinating translations, making design of the magazine, taking part in promotion activities. As an EVS volunteer you will be also involved in activities focused on raising awareness among young people in Skopje and Macedonia about Youth in Action Programme in general and EVS program particularly. You will be also involved in workshops with children in daily center for children from the street. The workshop is taking place in daily center of Sutka. Each workshop lasts around 2 hours and you can feel free to bring ideas which you would like to fullfil in this workshops. There is also open space for developing your own ideas in concrete activities. You are more than welcome to organize workshops, events targeting young people in Skopje. Just to give you inspiration in previous years the EVS volunteers for example organized music workshops, dance and theatre workshops, language classes, camera obscura workshop, workshops about creative recycling and much more... It will be great if you can take your time and let us know your ideas for your own personal workshops so we can work on your ideas before coming... Moreover we would like also to support intercultural learning and motivate young people in Skopje to discover more about your culture thus we would like to organize intercultural evenings during which you can show interesting movies, teach dances, share music... Thus we would like to ask if you can brainstorm ideas for these intercultural evenings and share them with us... Links http://www.helloskopje.org http://skopje.fr http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/ http://www.skopjeonline.com.mk/ Skopje bus station http://sas.com.mk/index.php http://www.jsp.mk http://www.balkanviator.com/en/ (not just for Macedonia) Accomodation You will be hosted in one of our flats. Both of them are in «Kisela Voda», really close to the office. In the first one there are 3 rooms, 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen with living room and 1 balcony. In other one, there are 4 rooms, 1 living room, 1 bathroom and 1 balcony. It’s close to markets «Vero and Maxi D» and lots of commodity. Flats are located at 15 min from city center by walk. Each volunteer have a room. You will be sharing kitchen and other facilities with other EVS volunteers. In the flat you can find all necessary stuff as kitchen stuff, blankets, bed clothes, towels, etc... The Wi-Fi internet is available in flats as well. Address of the first flat : Address of the second flat : Boris Trajkovski Avenue, B.T. num. 24, entry 2, apartment num. 4 Emil Zola 3-2/3 Kisela voda, 1000, Skopje Kisela Voda , 1000, Skopje Flat’s living room on Boris Trajovski avenue Flat’s living room on Boris Trajovski avenue Money In Macedonia we use Macedonian denars (MKD).The current exchange rate : 1 EUR = 61.5 MKD. You can exchange euros and denars without any problems here. Most of the biggest shops and restaurants accept also credit cards, but take care about fees of your bank. Just when you will leave Macedonia, do not forget to exchange your money back, because you cannot exchange MKD outside Macedonia ! In Macedonia EVS volunteers receive 60 € / 3660 MKD pocket money, as well as 100 € / 6100 MKD food allowance. Language Lets speak Macedonian! During your EVS time you will have an opportunity to take part in classes of Macedonian language so you can feel free and more comfortable in daily life situations. Insurance During your EVS you are insured by Cigna that covers all the expenses for visits to doctors, operations etc. Your sending organization should arrange your insurance, please ask about it, if you did not receive any information until now. If you have some specific health problem, please, take your medicine with you, be informed what should be done in case your health condition gets worse, also be sure to leave correct emergency contact information to us and to your sending organization. One flat’s bedroom on Boris Trajovski avenue T ransport You will receive tickets for public eather transport. W In summer it is hot, really hot in Macedonia. In the case if you want to take Especially in June and July you can expect a taxi: taxi in Skopje is cheap, temperatures over 40 °C. And winter can be just remember that taxi drivers cold with a lot of snow. sometimes do not know where the place where you want to go is. And the prices? For one ride in n arrival, Mid-term training the city you should pay from 100 YourO on-arrival training will take place in Skopje at the beginning MKD to 200 MKD.
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