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Волонтерски Интернационален Забавен Аниматоз - Volonteer International Entertainment Magazine
fall edition
14 - a Gaziantep wedding
4 - Kocani’s pazar
6 - Child marriages
8 - Lullabies
10 - macedonian folklore
12 - invention of the needle
16 - AMASYA YAHBULU HOUSE
Contents
18 - YOUTHPASS 20 - NO FOR PLASTIC BAGS! 22 - GARY’S CAVE
24 - VISA LEGALISATION 26 - HEALTHY FOOD
THE COLORS OF KOCANI, “PAZAR”
This is the same in Turkish bazaars but apples of Kocani might be better than some kind of Turkish apples. Turkish bazaar prices are cheaper than Kocani bazaar prices. The reason of this might be more production of Turkey in terms of bazaar products. Turkey is more productive because the climate is more suitable than Kocani climate. For example; the price of tomato in Kocani is 60 Denars and the minimum salary of Macedonian workers are 12.000 Denars. And in Turkey the price of tomato is 4 Turkish Lira and the minimum salary of workers are 1598 Turkish Lira. When we compare to
The ethimology of the Word “Pazar” comes from Persian. The Word of “vazar” in Persian means “shopping place” and this word transforms to word “Pazar” by the time. In Turkish vocabulary, several words come from Persian so this word is the same way, too. Kocani and Turkey, which have a lot of difference in their bazaar areas, they both have various fortunes. Even if the share similar climates, bazaars in these places divorces from each other. To give an example, there are always green vegetables in Turkey such as lettuce, parsley, spinach, fresh green union, etc. But according to the obligations of Turkish people, in Kocani, there is not always green vegetable in bazaars and you can nearly
coincide to them. People from Kocani concume slaw instead of letture, maybe this is the reason of nearly finding letture or other green stuffs like that. The other example is cucumber. Turkish cucumbers are much more smaller than Kocani cucumbers. But mostly Kocani cucumbers are fresher than Turkish cucumbers. Also, in Kocani bazaars, tomatos are very natural and without GDO. This is important for health but in Turkish bazaars, you may be exposed to this problem beacuse a lot of sellers make this mistake and they put at risk consumers’ health. From another point, fruits of Kocani bazaars are very delicious and fresh.
the prices according to the mininum wages, Kocani bazaar is more expensive than Turkish bazaar. Bazaar days in Turkey change depending on areas of cities. So we can say that there is not just one particular day for bazaar in all country. Bazaars are set up once in a week. So the main differences between Turkish and Kocanian bazaars are these. As a result, we can say that both bazaar areas have different beauties and healthy things, even when we consider the differences.
The dangers of child marriages Child marriages are described as girls who are forces to get married before they are 18 years old. The issue of child marriage is a concern for undeveloped and developing countries as well as Turkey, forced marriage at on early age is problematic in many ways. In Turkey it is illegal to marry under 17. But people can marry at the age of 16 with the decision by judge. It is only written on the paper. Early marriages happen every day, mostly on the east side of Turkey. There is a tweet about early marriage. In addition, there are some factors which contribute the problem including legal gaps, education level of the family and the daughter, economical conditions, stereotypes, traditional practices and sexism level.
What are the effects of Child Marriage? Child brides are more likely than unmarried girls to die younger, suffer from health problems, live in poverty and remain illiterate. Premature Pregnancy Child Brides almost always bear children before they are physically or emotionally ready. Maternal Mortality Girls younger than 15 are five times more likely to die during child birth or pregnancy than older woman. Infant Mortality: Mortality rates for babies born to mothers under age 20 are almost 75% higher than for children born to older mothers. The children that survive are more likely to be premature, have a low birth weight, and are more at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS. Health Problems Premature childbirth can lead to a variety of health problems for mothers, including fistula debilitating condition that causes chronic incontinence. Girls with fistula are often abandoned by their husbands and ostracized by society. There are approximately 2 million girls living with fistula, and 100.000 news cases every year HIV/AIDS Married girls may be more likely to contract sexually transmitted disease, including HIV/AIDS, than unmarried girls. Young girls are more physically susceptible to STD’s, have less access to reproductive education and health services and are often powerless to demand the use of contraception. Illiteracy Child brides are often pulled out of school and denied further education. Their children are also more likely to be illiterate. Poverty Child brides - already poor - are isolated and denied education and employment opportunities, making it difficult for them break out of the cycle of poverty. Abuse and Violence Child brides are more likely to experience domestic abuse, and violence than their peers who marry later. Mental Health Violence and abuse can lead to post-traumatic stress and depression. Isolation and Abandonment Child brides are often isolated from their peers and abandoned if they develop health problems like fistula.
Lullaby Songs
A lullaby, according to the parents or relatives who raise children , is a cetain tune in verse or prose words to get children to sleep. Lullabies are folk cuture products that are also used as materials in children’s literature. Also lullbies are im provisational utterances including wishes such as longevity of the child, protection from the evil eye and dieases, babies not crying, being well behaved, growing fast, being bride or groom in the future. Lullabies include local elements, customs and traditions, and many historical and social issues. Another definition: These are folk literature crops that the mothers or other relatives usually make the baby sleep while loving her and distracting, they sing with their own tune, often reflecting the wishes and hopes of the child, and also reflect the current situation of the child and the sayer, usually in the beginning and end of the ritual, complement, fill and cliche words. Some known lullaby songs as geaophically: Brazil “Dorme neném” (Sleep Little Baby) India “Aaja Ri Aa Nindiya Tu Aa” by Do Bigha Zamin “Main Gaoon Tu Chhup Ho Jaa” by Do Aankhen Barah Haath “So Jaa Re Lalna Jhulao Tohe Palna” by Journey Beyond Three Seas Danish “Elefantens vuggevise” (“The Elephant’s Lullaby”) Turkish “Uyusunda büyüsün nenni”
The beauty of discovering new cultures: A story Traditional dances and songs of Macedonia
The name of traditional dance of Macedonia Paidushka Ora. Ora dance first born in East Macedonia. The meaning of word ‘Oro’ is dance of circle. This word comes from Europe and Near Eastern searches. One of the traditional dances of Macedonia is Paidushka Oro. The dance is know as the ‘Drunk Dance’ in Macedonia. It can change according to regions like many other Balkan dancers. It is a male dance traditionally but these days both women and men dance together. Some of other traditional dances are similar to Macedonia Dance such as Horo, Halay. These dances are played in a form of circle,too and they are started to be faster more and more. These dances are popular even now, especially in Turkey. And Turkish people dance in their every weddings and celebrations. Traditional music of the republic of Macedonia is equivalent to Balkan music. The traditional music of Macedonian includes; lyrical, epic, labor, ritual, humorous music. Balkan music have complex rhythmc. Includes clarnet, saxophone, drum set, bass guitar, accordion and guitar. In Macedonia these instruments are very popular. Starogradska Glazbo means the old town music (Traditional Folk music). The Starogradska music is related to the western influences of Macedonia under ottoman occupation in the 19th century and the development of the development of the Bourgeoisie. Makedonski Devoche is a traditional song of Macedonia. All Macedonian people know this song and they sing it in their every celebrations, meetings and other parts of their daily life. All generations learn this song how to sing. And as young people, we tried to create a new and colorful version of this song. To describe; first we played with glassed. We fulfilled the glasses with water at different measures and swiped our wet fingers. By doing like this we created calm sounds. Second, we played with by this way. Finally, our one friend played ukulele and we all started to sing ‘Makedonski Devotce’. This version of the song was very different and cheerful for us.
Clothes and shoes are related with appearances of people. We can easily buy them from stores. However, the process of creating these items and them reaching stores is not so easy. Sewing needles which have an important point in process of the production are important for the beginning of the fashion market. A bone needle which dates back to 61 000 years ago was found in Sibudu Cave in South Africa. Another bone needles which are 20 000 years old were discovered in a stone age cave in France. In Denisova, another needle which was made from bird bones and is guessed to be 50 000 years old. Some ivory needles are around 30 000 years old were also found in Kosteki region in Russia. Copper needles come from 4400 BC to 3000 BC were discovered in Naqada. Humankind invented needle for producing more useful clothes than animal skins. This invention became a step for more modern civilization. Technology of high-quality steel needle came from China to Spain in the tenth century. Although the steel technology extended in Germany and France, it didn’t extending in England. England began creating needles in Redditch in 1639 but creating in the drawn-wire technique still in common use today. Since the fifteen century, metal needles were began to use in several countries. Sewing with needle and string still were a troublesome job during a long time. After sewing machine was in-
A Gaziantep Wedding Marriage Contract: The first traditional step of Gaziantep weddings is start with the marriage contract which consists promise and cutting ribon that is tied between rings of the groom and the brides when they are wearing on their ring finger and eating sweet. Only very close relatives are called for this agreement to give in marriage and in there they talk about what to buy and marriage gift and make an agreement about them. Gold jewelry is very important in Gaziantep. Engagement: Before the date for engagement is decided, the negotiation is realized. Food and the stuffs that are decided to be bought are bought. Rings are worn by the elder relative from family and all jewelries are given and worn. Moreover all stuffs that are bought are shown. Dowry ceremony: Before moving the dowry the members of girl’s side stays in girl’s house and waits boy’s side to come to their house and in this step the dowry that belongs to girls’ side are taken from girl’s house and are moved to boy’s house by the members of boy’s side. This application is still being implemented with some changes today. In the dowry ceremony, the girl goes from her house to the boy’s house with a drum on the ceremony. Henna Night: Usually realized a day before the wedding day in both men’s house and girls’ house. The most important members of henna night are groomsman, protector of the groom and his manservant. They are responsible not only for henna night but also all the steps for the wedding. Boy sends henna to girl’s house one day before henna night party. Candles are sewn on. The groom and the bride are deaf ones. The henna is burned by the groomsmen after being burned by the groomsmen to the bride and groom. Wedding: In the region, the people were playing some culturel games. Some of them are games based on punishment. In present days,the people are funning with drums and anatolian folk dance in weddings till the night. After wedding is over,while going home the bride dont out of the car,she wants to gift or money from boy’s family. The bride breaks vase,this meaning of ‘’I got rid of the worst things ,ın the house I came from. I’coming inside of with good things.’’ The groom’s friends kick the
Amasya - Yahbolu Houses
One of the first places that comes to mind when you say Amasya are the houses along the waterside. Come and see these houses in Amasya, picture them,especially when sailing in your boat while sipping tea and coffee in the Sultanate Yeşilırmak distracted by watching the house, not without hoping and dreaming. Amasya Yalıbolu Houses have an incredible architectural structure. Firstly, they reflect Ottoman Civil Architectural Style. These homes with two storeys consist of Haremlik and Selamlık (Salutation) Sections; Haremlik part was only used homeowner and his family members because it was a private place. But Salutation (Selamlama in Turkish) section was generally opened to the public like guests and the other visitors. Also there are found a wonderful gate including water well, courtyard and furnace in between those two spaces. Additionally, Yalıbolu Houses contains a mansion named as Sahnis or Sahn-I Sirin, and breath-taking rooms which are surrounded special sofa (hall), cantilevered balconies and ravishing guillotine, oriel windows. Except for those features, while the first floor was made of stone or concrete, the second storey was furnished with wooden and grooved tiles. Amasya houses are examples of traditional Ottoman architecture in various parts of which it is possible to see. But the density you live on the eastern seaboard. When you enter the city of Amasya, the clock tower is located about
500 meters from the area where you can see homes with similar architectural features.Most of them has been restored and a museum,houses converted into a hotel and restaurant is worth a visit. Amasya houses, more 19. century, in accordance with the act numbered 2863 Ankara’s cultural and natural heritage conservation cultural and natural heritage preservation Commission designated by decision of 05.05.1992 2364 day and were taken under protection.This housing is made of lather and plaster and himis are examples. Usually side-by-side, which is arranged adjacent Yaliboyu Houses fine examples of this architecture, known as the housing tissue. Houses, usually one or two layers is formed by a basement and on. In some applications, on the first floor, in others known as the pavilion is located on the second floor sahnis. Typically, a courtyard and a garden. Examples of greeting in the style of harem and especially arranged and the housing remains closed in the middle of the garden view. Sometimes due to a high garden wall to figure this out in the other houses emerges. Thanks to tasinti more open, spacious and bright, which is the second floor, the lower floor is given to more than the application window. More Windows arranged in groups of three and are taken up in the style of the window trimmer. In front of the window, the outside of the inside that prevents kafeslik wood to be seen. The interior of the house of daily life, sofa (life), which are used in the rooms around. These
rooms are usually January, sherbet, den (Closet, shelves, and there are functional units, such as Cedar. Also, some rooms in the house, except for a few instances, which is arranged as an independent gusulhane absence gusulhane the closet is big and spacious (bath) is evaluated. All the units in the rooms are an integral part of daily life. Outside the courtyard garden or in the units being located within the interior of the house, and is located connected with daily life in other currencies. Among these, water wells, and January is one of the first noticeable units. In fact, in some instances, to meet the need of the bread in the oven, it can be seen that is made. Therefore it can be said that; domestic and foreign locations in Amasya houses situated in this connection whether there’s a seamless connection between all units are complementary to one another. This historic home on your trip outside of Amasya,Amasya Museum (especially the hall of the mummies),King Rock Tombs,II.You should see Beyazit Mosque complex. Moreover, today from past those structures have put under protection and been renovated again and again. Finally, they are used and served as diverse functions such as hotel, bar cafe and restaurant at the moment which grabs the tourists On a final note; If you plan a trip in July, prepare yourself for the stifling heat of Amasya.Especially some of you will be forced out of King Rock Tombs.
What is Youthpass?
Youthpass is a tool to document and recognise learning outcomes from youth work activities. It is a part of the Europan Commission’s strategy to speed up the recognition of non-formal learning, putting policy into practice and practice into policy ; - While creating their Youthpass certificate together with a supporting person, project participants are given the possibility to describe what they have done in their project and which competences they have gained. Thus , Youthpass supports the reflection upon the personal non-formal learning of youth work. - As an EU recognized instrument for non-formal learning in the youth field, Youthpass strengthens the social recognition of yotuh work. - Youthpass also aims at supporting the employability of young people and of youth workers by raising their awareness of and helping to describe their conpetences ,and
by documenting their acquisition of key competences on a certificate.
Who can use Youthpass?
Within the Erasmus+ : Youth in Action programme, Youthpass certificates are currently available for the following activities ; - Youth Exchanges European Voluntary Service - Mobility of
Youth Workers - Structured Dialogue - Transnational Cooperation Activities (TCA) of The National Agencies All participants of the projects approved within these frameworks are entitled to receive Youthpass certificate ,and thus recognition for their non-formal learning outcomes.
Where can you use Youthpass?
The use of Youthpass was considered most useful when applying for a traonesship. Between 70% and 80% of participants and organisation representatives considered using Youthpass when applying for a job and the majority of participants and organisation representatives intend to use Youthpass when applying for higher education.
How a plastic bag affects the evnironment? A plastic bag affects human health and nature adversely. According to same researches, one of the reason of cancer cases is stated that the rote of plastic bag is great. The food which is kept in plastic bag interacts with chemicals and it effects the human health negatively. It takes a long time for a plastic bag to decompose in the mountains. A plastic bag can decompose in 400 years at sea but it decompose on land in 800 years. Why we should use fabric bags *Fabrics bags are not disposable. *Fabric bags according to now material, are degraded in naturel environment They are produced as anti bacteria and recyclable material of % 100 cotton material. They are crable and they can carry very heavy things easily.In order to create awareness we made the design and produced of fabric bags with our grase. After we had completed the production ,we handed out the fabric bags in city center, also we go he those bags to local people. While we were handing out we invited them to clean up the Brana Gradce natural park and purify from plastic bags. The next day, the volunteers of local and our association started to clean Brana Gradce. After about 2 hours, we collected the garbage’s All volunteers were happy to participate in this activity.
Gary’s Cave, Zrnovci story time
Zrnovci is situated in the east part of Republic of Macedonia, 8 km south of Kocani, placed in the Kocani valley. The cave is shallow with a high ceiling and basically two levels of rocky floors. It faces south and has a spectacular view of the Zrnovci River and the Mountain Canyon. The cave is 40 minutes south of Zrnovci up the river Canyon accessed from the west middle trail out of the village at the swimming hole known as ‘The Little Jump’. On the Road of The Cave you can see beauty of nature. What was the relation between Peace Corps and Zrnovci Cave? To attract tourism to the Zrnovci area, A Peace Corps Volunteer improved a cave above a waterfall and swimming hole on the Zrnovska River. Karen and Gary came here as Peace Corps Volunteers two years ago from America. Karen is sixty and Gary is sixty-three years old.Gary and Karen decided to improved a cave.
A visa is an official document that allows the bearer to legally enter a foreign country. The visa is usually stamped or glued into the bearer’s passport. There are several different types of visas, each of which afford the bearer different rights in the host country. Visas are necessary if you’d like to travel to a country that does not have a visa policy in place with your home country. Many countries have visa policies and agreements that allow their citizens to travel freely between them without the need for a visa. Countries have visa restrictions in order to check and control the flow of visitors in and out of the country and to prevent illegal immigration and other criminal activities. Forcing travelers to apply for a visa allows the authorities to vet potential visitors. For example, individuals may attempt to travel to a country with better economic opportunities in order to work illegally there. If the visa liberalization comes to practice there will be positive and negative consequences of it. For positive sides we can count that citizens from distinct countries would have free movement in the Schengen area, however, visa liberalization enables visa free travel only up to 90 days (every six months). Still, it is good for saving money because the money that should be spent for visa application is very expensive and this would be encouraging for many people to travel and acculturation. On the other hand, the negative sides of visa liberalization are more critical because not only innocent and favorable people will have free travel right but also the people who are malicious and sneaky would have the same right. Maybe, they will use this opportunity in bad way and will smear their own country’s reputation. In my humble opinion, it is not ok for me to have visa restriction as an open-minded Turkish citizen because I have desire to travel a lot of countries and to be experienced from different cultures but as a student or unemployed person it is very hard for me to afford fee for visa application all the time. If I get this opportunity I believe that I would interpret this chance first for developing myself, and also for enjoyment. Most probably, the first country that I want to move would be England because I want to see and experience its’ civilization. They have different polity, tradition and culture than my country. Also, the country’s urbanism and architecture of cities are challenging for me.
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Healthy food is not a commercial There are different types of food in many places of the world.Each community has a different culture of eating and drinking. Nowadays, Fast food habit has been increasing because of fast life style. Depents it on, there has been a rapid increase of obesity in the world. As a result of increase, eating healthy became popular and most people start to eating healthy. As in many places of the world, healthy food has been give importance in Macedonia. There are many healthy food markets in Macedonia.For this purpose, a survey was conducted on the occasion of the international food day on October 16, in the city of Koçani in Macedonia. The survey was made to individuals between 16-30 years of age. It was aimed to learn the ideas of young people on this subject. Our motto is “Healthy food is not a commercial”. Because most people think that eating healthy is expensive but it is not true. According to survey results, %41,21 of people think that eating healthy is expensive. There are 10 questions the survey. It was aimed to find out whether people have enough knowledge about eating healthy or healthy food, how healthy they are fed and how much they care about eating healthy. Sum up, people have opportunity to eat healthy, but they don’t have time, enough knowledge and according to them is very expensive, as we can see on the answers of our questions.
HEALTHY FOOD- AUTUMN MARKET Today we all know that the problem of obesity is one of the biggest problems in the world on human health. If we want to have a healthy living standard we should learn that. We should consume naturel fruits and vegetables grown in every season. Now in this article. I will write what we need to pay attention when shopping in the Autumn Market. How you are shopping and what should you put in your healthy shopping basket. There should be at least 5 colors in our basket. What does it mean? Researches show that the colors of fruits and vegetables have some great properties that help preventing some types of canser, neurological discases and stroke. You can’t should contain 3 different fresh sesonal products and 3 different frozen food products that are diffucult to reach in the fall. A few fresh apples, some spinach, bananas, patatoes and Omega 3 containing frozen food in to your basket. You can get the necessory 5 colors. To pay attantion to the deparment in the middle corridor! İn the central corridor, there are usually foods such as spices, crackers, bread, pasta, savces and cercals. For example; perefer the bread or crunchy derivatives containing only 3 materials, not 20. Because in foods containing more materials in the structive of the addivite is high. Junk food should be limited one portion junk food recommended to be consumed twice a week shoul be consured as palms. Carbonhydrates should be 100% full gram. This is the easiest and most useful rule. Make sure that the bread and cereals we buy are 100% full grain. Choose brand made of only one material. İnstead of white rice. These simple changes have praven to reduce the risk of heart discases, diabetes and weight. Frozen foods stop where they are! Leave foods containing meat types such as frozen pizza, burgers, keep in the cupboard. These foods will not replace home-made and fresh products. Our beverage choices should be water, coffee and tea! Rescarch is associated with regative behaviors such as insomnia, stres and tension of energy drinks. İn addition, drinks containing high levels of sugar couse obesity in children and weight gain in individuals. Now we say goodbye to you with a healthy recipe of Autumn vegetables.
Autumn Salad
Preparation Thoroughly rinse and dry in the Ingredients fitler. Then chop it so that it is not 1-Bunch of Curly Lettuce too thin. Chop the carrots and corn 2 Pieces of thin carrot into a ring. Take them together into 1 handfull of walnuts the salad bowl and blend them to4-5 pieces of mini corn For Sauce: 4 tablespoons of olive oil gether. For sacues, fill the lemon juice, olive oil, mustard and grated 1 piece of lemon garlic in the salad. Garnish with 2 tooth garlic walnuts and serve. 1 teaspoon mustard Enjoy your Meal
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