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Bojan Mircheski Daniele Ferro Hristijan Jordanoski Ivana Kostadinovik Maja Adzioska Marjan Naumoski Kate Petkoska Silvia Ortigosa Vladimir Nasteski

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Info Front p. 4 Human Rights p. 5 Just Saying p. 6 ivana Kostadivanic p. 8

Diary Silvia p. 10 Diary Daniele p. 11 Environment

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Minority languages-training course

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Activism Quotes p. 15 Loesje Poster

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INDEX Loesje Poster

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oDesk p. 18 People of Prilep

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Barilla p. 25 Prilep, China and the globalisation at home

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Rafael Nadal p. 27 Training course-Youth and work

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Loesje Poster p. 29 Do it yourself p. 30

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„Info front – Prilep“ is a youth NGO that provides information to the young people regarding the ‘Youth in action’ program, European Voluntary Service (EVS), stimulates creativity, creative activism, non-formal education, cultural exchanges and information distribution. The projects we work on and we prepare for near future are local and international, in the fields of sport, humanitarian actions (in cooperation with the local branch of the Red Cross), gender equality, art and culture, creative workshops, ecology and environment and European awareness.

“Youth in Action” program enables young Europeans to act, to make a difference in the world, and their own life, through European Voluntary Service (EVS). European Voluntary Service (EVS) gives one and the only chance to youth Europeans to express their personal involvement through voluntary activity abroad, in the countries members of EU. In this way, the program encourages sympathy, mutual understanding and tolerance between youth, giving its contribution to strengthen the social cohesion in the European Union, promoting active citizenship of the young.

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European Voluntary Service (EVS) is a great opportunity for young people, at the age of 18 until the age of 30, to live in another country in a period of maximum one year; to acquire work experience; to make friends of different nationalities and social background; to acquire new skills; and to change their lives … as well as the lives of the people around them. EVS volunteers work in different fields: culture and music, social jobs, health care, environment, sport, etc.

In order to take part in an EVS program you should find an accredited sender organization (Info Front- Prilep). The participation in this program is free. The Program of European Commission “Youth in Action” finances the participation.

The grant covers all the expenses such as travel, insurance, food, accommodation, training, and your pocket money.

Beside local community service, participation in volunteer activities helps young volunteers in developing new skills. Therefore, they improve their personal, educational and professional development. Volunteers can make use of particular training during the activity and foresee their expected results of the learning, processes and methods. Youth pass officially recognize their learning process. Volunteers take part in the program free. They are also provided with accommodation and food, insurance and financial refunding during the project.

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Human rights trampled under our eyes Last summer I saw something that I will bring with me for the rest of the life. It was on a evening of the Beer Festival of Prilep.

Half hidden in a bush, a teenager was vomiting the too much alcohol he had drunk. A Roma child, maybe 9 years old, was walking nearby, collecting the dozens of cans that people had thrown on the ground, in a plastic bag bigger than him. When the child saw the vomiting guy, he stopped, looking at him for ten seconds, trying to understand what was going on. His face was astonished, worried, confused. Then, he came back to collect cans.

In Italy it is possible to see Roma children asking for money, and for sure my country, like all the countries, is not respecting human rights. Roma people are discriminated everywhere. So I’m not judging Macedonia.

Just to be clear.

But I have never seen so many children working, and so evidently.

While thousands of people, young and adults, were having fun at the concert, dozens of sad and dirty children were collecting cans (and a question is: why are there not recycle bins in Prilep? If Roma people cleverly separate cans, it means that they can be recycled).

I was part of the play too, so I asked to myself: how is it possible to accept this situation? How is it possible that every year this play is repeating, and nothing is done to change it?

“The child shall be given opportunities and facilities […] to enable him to develop physically, mentally, morally, spiritually and socially in a healthy and normal manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity. […] The child shall have the right to adequate nutrition, housing, recreation and medical services. […] The child shall be protected from practices which may foster racial, religious and any other form of discrimination” - “Declaration of the rights of the child”. Adopted by United Nations in 1959 -

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Words by: D. Ferro

Roma people are discriminated everywhere. The last April, Amnesty International (the non governmental organisation fighting for the human rights) promoted a campaign called “Human rights here, Roma rights now”, asking to the European Union to pay more attention on the rights of Roma people in our continent. Amnesty (only to offer a few of the data published by the organization) writes that Roma people are supposed to be 12 million in Europe (in Macedonia they are about 7-10% of the population), and eight out of ten live in poor families.

„JUST SAYING“ First teen web-series ever made from countries of former Jugoslavia.

What happens when the virtual relationships go real, when new love touches old friendship and the game goes rebelled. „Just Saying“ is the first teen web series ever made regionally. The series itself has 26 episodes. Each lasts 5 to 10 minutes. The series will air only on the Facebook official site : facebook.com/samokazem01 and on the YouTube Chanel youtube.com/samokazem01 One (un)usual summer a group of girls and boys become a crew. They come from different countries that border, but their inhabitants rarely and without willing cross those borders.

They speak different languages, but still can understand each other perfectly. They share same dreams and fears, but have never had the opportunity to talk about them until now. They have met by chance, and by chance became the crew.

The producer of the series is Fond B92.

Directed by Jelena Gavrilovikj from Belgrade.

Meet Jovana, Maja, Aleksandra, Milosh, Zoran, Dren..

Jovana (Milena Stanikj) Jovana (17) is the youngest one in the crew. She believes that she is way more mature than teenagers her age. So far, she has been an ordinary Belgrade high school girl. But this summer, when her boyfriend is in Canada, everything changes in her life.

Milosh (Mladen Sovilj) Milosh (21) comes from Belgrade. He spends hours and hours with 6

Youtube. Also Milosh himself has some videos made by him. He finds surfing really interesting and fun. That really annoys his younger sister Jovana.

Maja (Ana Mandikj) Maja (19) is a daddy’s little girl. She has run away from Kotor, away from her father and that little place, just in order to live in Belgrade and to become more independent. Her father still helps her in so many ways, like paying bills, paying for her vast apartment in the center of Belgrade, and for each and every expence that she makes.

Aleksandra (Ana Stojanovska) Alwyas with a smile on her face, in a good mood and optimistic.

Aleskandra (19) is a real party girl. She has an ambition to become an actress, and from Skopje to move in Hollywood, and with her provocative dress to leave here fingertips among famous people.

Zoran (Davor olubovikj) If life gives you lemons-make a lemonade. Zoran (21) does not have lemon, but he has his father’s cub and big ambition to buy a new I-phone. Belgrade beers don’t allow that. Besides everything, he does not know where he belongs.

Dren(Bujar Ahmeti) Dren (20) is the outsider in the group. That’s because he does not have speak the language that is spoken among the crew. Because of the love, he get himself into a big adventure and for the first time in his life he has came in a big city, the city that he has heard all the worst about.

There are a real life challenges in front of his life, and some interesting inventions.

Words by: Bojan Mircheski

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iva na kostadino vic

My name is Ivana Kostadinovik. I was born on July 19, I am 16 and go the Municipal Secondary School “Riste RisteskiRichko”- Prilep. I’ve always wanted to paint, since I was very young. At the age of 2, I drew my first painting, it was a simple little man, but I considered it as a good start. Since then, till now, I paint every day. I paint portraits the most.

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SILVIA

THE END OF AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE

It has been almost seven months since I arrived in Prilep, and now only two months separate me from returning to my home , Murcia , Spain .

When I look back and think about everything I’ve experienced so far it seems incredible , even more when I remember the early days in Prilep , lost , with plenty of fears , uncertainties and not quite understanding, trying to understand my new life in this country in the Balkans.

Now I know what I how is the feeling to live away from home , family , friends and far from your usual environment . Now I know how does it work to give Spanish lessons, teach teenagers graphic design , write articles and make the design of a magazine. But the most important thing isn’t those things, the most of it is each and every one of the experiences I’ve lived , those that remain to be experienced and I’ll always remember : the training in Sarajevo , Serbia , Bucharest and Bilbao , the amazing trip in Montenegro and the rest of the Balkans , the dinners with my local friends , French friends and American friends , those beers and sangria nights in my apartment , the coffee on Saturday morning , the delicious burek in the morning ...

Eventually the balance is more than positive , because this experience that I never thought to live or be prepared , has helped me to grow as a person , understand how other part of the world runs, meet interesting people , make great friends, travel, taste new food , learn from life of the people around me and above all, learn to be more tolerant, open-minded, communicative , willing ...

Now near to the end, I know what I want in my life and that is to be happy, to be in the country and in the city that fate holds for me . I want to be surrounded by such nice people like the one I have here besides me . So, I’ll take my bags when I finished my EVS experience and I’ll stop in the country in which I can feel myself again at home , because ultimately your home is not only where you were born ,or if that is where you have your roots , but for me , home is where I can be happy, or at least where I am closer to what we call happiness.

Prilep , the city where I began to understand the objective and purpose of life, to be happy.

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Words by: S. Ortigosa

DANIELE

EVS IS AN EXPERIENCE OF LIFE

The bus swings between the curves as we are lulled by the classical music. The driver adjusts the volume in a convulsive way. He must be forty-five years hold, he has just long grizzled hair and crystal eyes behind thick eyelashes. His cheeks are thin, and he blows the smoke (blessed is the person travelling on a Macedonian bus without the driver lighting a cigarette!) with an expression of suffering and peace. He turns up and down the volume all the time: when the music excites him, he jerks to turn the knob. Maybe he’s pissed off, maybe he argued with his wife, maybe he’s worried about his children, maybe he hates to go up and down along the lake, maybe he hates the lake itself, although his eyes are the mirror of the lake. Maybe he’s only tired.

But that music is filling up him with life, and in that moment I feel the life, in the magical melody coming from the talent of men and spreading impalpable emotions that strike the mind as punches or caresses. I feel the life in the marvel of being on a bus in Macedonia (who would have thought the last year I was coming in Macedonia?), listening to classical music instead of the usual folk, and observing this man, this simple man like me, who appreciates the beauty and spread it for him and around him.

In the second week end of October, I went to Ohrid lake because I hadn’t seen yet the Sveti Naum monastery. From Sveti Naum, I took the last bus to go to Ohrid and spend there my Saturday night. I rang five bells, but nobody of the “rent a room” houses had a place for me.

Fortunately, I was told about the Sunny Lake hostel, and there I found a great atmosphere. I met Marco, an Italian guy who is going to Australia by bus and train. “Well, but at the end you should take a plane or a boat”, I joked.

And the following morning, I heard a guy with a familiar accent. “Ciao, are you Italian?”, I asked him. “No, I’m Argentinian, but I have relatives in Italy”, he said to me in Italian. “And from where are they?”, I asked again. “From Castelletto di Branduzzo”. That is 5 kilometres from my home town.

Coincidences. And Evs. This is life.

Words by: D. Ferro

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environment ECO-LOGIC. TO THINK AND LIVE GREEN

“The right to live, act and create in a healthy and clean environment is one of the most important human rights, but also one of the most shunned ones”.

This is the philosophy which explains why the non profit organization of Skopje Eco-Logic was born in March 2011, founded by “a group of young people - as Nikola Neshkoski, the 27 years old environmental engineer and president of the organisation, says who wanted to make a change in society and in how people think, live and act, according to the topics related to environment. We wanted to make a change in both urban and rural areas, because we care of our environment and our life”. As you can read in its website (www.ecologic.mk), the organization works to protect the environment and to promote modern ecological practices, according to the principle of sustainable development.

The Eco-Logic’s philosophy is written in the description of one of its running projects, “Programme for decrease of air pollution in Macedonia”, which has not only the aim to decrease air pollution (through, for example, the spread of environmental friendly transports), but also to create awareness in young people about the need to change our style of life.

“A part from big problems like the traffic’s smog in Skopje, which causes hundreds of death - as the Eco-Logic coordinator says - the level of environmental awareness of Macedonian people is very low, especially in the smaller areas.

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This is why our organization develops activities in the field of non formal education. People need tools helping them to live in a more sustainable way”.

If citizens are not very aware of the good ecological practises we need, neither are politicians. “Just because politics it’s not interested in promoting a sustainable development in our country, it is a task of the people to make a change. We are looking more and more for people interested to join our team - Nikola Neshkoski says - because we are developing several projects, both in urban and rural areas. We are eager to know new and active people”.

For info: ecologic.mk@gmail.com

Words by: D. Ferro

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MINOTIRY LANGUAGES - TRAINING COURSE Speaking about minority languages is always a very interesting topic, and even more if we speak about our own language as well. For this reason, a training course was organized by the NGO “Kaebnai”, in Zarautz, Basque country (Spain).

During the 7 days, from 23th until 30th October 2013, 35 young people coming from five different countries- Spain (Basque Country), Bulgaria, Macedonia, Italy (Sardinia) and Georgia were actively participating in the training.

The macedonian team

The main topic was related to the importance of minority languages, how can we work and how run our lives using them; the importance of keeping, preserve and using them, the risk of losing them, and over all, how important is each language in all the world for keeping our identity and traditions as citizens.

During the training, all the participants were sharing experiences, working in groups, contributing with different kind of view, discussing, and finally, getting 20 conclusions (voted among all of the participants, totally democratically and fair) that were presented in the City Council of San Sebastián.

Of course not everything was only work. Also all the participants could enjoy visiting San Sebastian, Zarautz and taste some awesome Spanish food as Spanish omelet, “pinchos”, sangria and cider (very popular drink from the north of Spain). Even every country explained their main traditions and of course the actual situation about minorities languages.

The project was funded and supported by the European Commission.

Seven young people from Prilep had an opportunity to meet different cultures, to learn by the methods of non- formal education and to share experiences.

If you want to participate in other trainings or seminars, just come to Info Front – Prilep. We’re waiting for you!

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Words by: S. Ortigosa

ACTIVISM QUOTES “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

- Mahatma Gandhi “Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.”

- Alice Walker “Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

- Margaret Mead “If you ever think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito!”

- Wendy Lesko “Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth.

Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.”

- Rachel Jackson “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

- Mother Teresa

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oDesk is the world’s largest online freelancing site where clients and over half a million contractors from around the world are brought together in a cyber-office environment. Freelance work is offered by clients who can post jobs free so that contractors can competitively bid for them.

No-one will be promised a yacht or a lifetime income for no effort. oDesk is a real online jobs marketplace and turns over more than $100m per year and contributes hugely to the global jobs marketplace. There are no gimmicks, promises or payment requirements other than the need to pay contractors’ wages.

The system is fairly simple: Clients post jobs and contractors bid at an oDesk hourlyor oDeskfixed price rate. The client can specify what they need and contractors can filter what they search and apply for. Contractors have a weekly application limit and clients are under no obligation until a hire is made, at which point regular contract law applies. oDesk is FREE to register for clients & contractors. Contractors pay nothing. Clients only pay when they hire and can post jobs free.

It is an easy process - just sign up and create a profile. The fees to clients are a flat rate 10% and are deducted before earnings are paid to workers - in other words, for an oDesk contractor, what you offered as a bid is what you are paid.

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As a Freelancer, you have the right to: • Be paid for every hour worked—on time, every time • Work where you want, when you want • Set an hourly rate based on your skills, experience, and reputation • Have access to the tools you need to build your business online

As a Client, you have the right to: • Audit and pay only for hours worked • Find the right person for the job, no matter where they live • Build an online workforce, on-demand and on your own terms • Manage and pay a global team with ease

oDesk serves the world Over 250,000 businesses worldwide have used oDesk to work with contractors. oDesk helped people connect across oceans, mountains, and cultures. oDesk want to provide oDeskers a way to explore oDesk and get a global perspective of our marketplace.

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According to the oDesk Research, 2012, the next graph shows the Weekly Global Activity of active users on oDesk online. This graph shows the ratio of contractors working during the given interval to the total number of hours worked during the week.

According the graph, the most inactive hours are on Sunday 05:00am06:00am, in which there are just 1150 workers online worldwide.

The most active users are working on Thursday, from 03:00pm04:00pm, worldwide, the average activity or the 52 weeks in 2011.

The next graph shows the percentage of registered users that were active in Macedonia and its neighbours.

As the graph shows, the most active registered users are in Albania with 11.4% of the registered users there. The most inactive users are located in Macedonia, with just 4.64% active users of all users registered in Macedonia.

Albania 11.40% Bulgaria 7.03% Serbia 6.60% Greece 5.21% Macedonia 4.64% TOTAL PROJECTS IN MACEDONIA COMPLETED: 3161 20

Top 10 Jobs in Macedonia: 1. Web Programing: 454 Projects Completed, 14% of total projects completed 2. Graphic Design: 407 Projects Completed, 13% of total projects completed 3. Web Design: 302 Projects Completed, 10% of total projects completed 4. Logo Design: 161 Projects Completed, 5% of total projects completed 5. Administrative Support – data entry: 152 Projects Completed, 5% of total projects completed 6. Video Production: 139 Projects Completed, 4% of total projects completed 7. Desktop Applications: 96 Projects Completed, 3% of total projects completed 8. Print Design: 83 Projects Completed, 3% of total projects completed 9. Web Research: 80 Projects Completed, 3% of total projects completed 10. Web Development: 80 Projects Completed, 3% of total projects completed

Words by: V. Nasteski

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PEOPLE OF PRILEP “If you want, you can work.

Go abroad, if you don’t feel satisfied here”

Name: Zlatko Surname: Momiroski Age: 41 Profession: owner of the Pink Panter fast food Family: married, 2 children, 1 sister

He’s a “man of the bazaar”. Who doesn’t know in Prilep that in the centre of the city you can eat sandwiches and fried potatoes at the Pink Panter fast food? Maybe it’s not known that Zlatko Momiroski, when he was really young, went to Italy to work. He spent there several summers, and he can speak a good Italian.

Zlatko, when did you go to Italy?

In 1993, I had 21 years old. I had a friend there who already worked, and I joined him.

Where did you live, and what did you do?

I was in Caorle, in the North of Venice. We were pedlars, with a regular permission to work. We had a stand in the centre of the city and we sold small paintings, made by gypsum, plastic and moulds.

And then we made also bracelets and necklaces.

How much time did you spend in Italy?

I worked there for three years, from 1993 22

to 1995. Well, I worked from May to September, when in Caorle there were tourists. How is the city? Oh, Caorle is very nice. It’s a old town on the seaside, there’s a old tradition of fishers and during summers there were really a lot of tourists.

Did you already know Italian when you went in Caorle?

No I didn’t. The first fifteen days were quite difficult. But the friend of mine had a lot of Italian friends, and spending a lot of time with them helped me to learn Italian in two months.

Have you ever had problems in Italy for being a foreigner?

Absolutely no, I can say that Italian people are all good, or at least I was lucky because I’ve never met someone who was impolite with me. And I think that there aren’t differences between Macedonian and Italian people, we are the same. I have still friends that I contact by Facebook, like Eleonora, Claudia, Ivan, Francesca, Paolo…for me Italy is a second home.

What did you do in your free time in Italy?

I had a lot of fun! We worked from 8 to 1 am and from 6 to 12 pm. And then we went to restaurants, bars, discotheques…

Do you have a particular episode to tell about your life in Italy?

Once I had a little problem with the Italian police at the border with Slovenia. I gave my passport to the policeman and after a while he said: “This is false, I don’t see your name on the register”. So I gave him my stay permission which demonstrated I was a regular worker, and he apologized a lot of times for the mistake.

And when you came back in Prilep, what did you do in the rest of the year? In Caorle I had a good salary, also because I was young and without a family and I didn’t need a lot of money, but when I came back I worked in the kitchen of a fast food. This was always my job.

When did you start to work?

I was 17 years old, I hadn’t finished the school yet. I made pizza in “Leone” restaurant for three years, and then I went to Italy.

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Some questions about your life here, now. Do you like your city?

Of course, everything is nice here. I would never change this city with another one, it has been improved a lot in the last 15 years. We have a big problem with the young unemployment, but this is a problem of all Macedonia. Do you regret something of your life? Yes. I don’t even know why I came back from Italy. Prilep is nice, but here you haven’t possibilities to have a better life after you have reached a certain level. There’s no social mobility. And I made a mistake to not have opened earlier this fast food, that I own since 2000. Anyway I cannot complain, I have a family, a job and I feel happy and lucky.

What has been the best thing of your life?

The birth of my children. Every father knows it.

Do you have some advices for the young people?

They don’t have to drink and use drugs. They have to think with their head.

And they have to work, I see so many young people doing nothing here. I understand that it’s difficult to find a job, but I think that most of the people don’t want to work because of the low salaries. Ok, it’s not right, but I can’t understand how it is possible to stay here doing nothing. Rather, if you don’t want to work here for 150 euro per month, it’s better to go abroad.

Words and photos by: D. Ferro

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BARILLA, WHEN PASTA IS NOT FOR GAY PEOPLE “For us, the concept of sacred family remains one of the fundamental values of the company. We will not do commercials with homosexuals, because for us the family is the traditional one. If gays like our pasta and our communication, they will eat our pasta. If not, they can avoid it and eat another brand. It’s not always possible to please everyone.”

These words were said by Guido Barilla, the chairman of the famous Italian food company. Barilla was interviewed on 25th September by the radio programme “La Zanzara” (The Mosquito) and his answer to the question if the company would ever show a gay family in advertisement sparked a big debate in Italy.

The social networks became the megaphone of the protests, and for the following two days articles and comments about the issue were everywhere.

Aurelio Mancuso, president of the homosexual association Equality Italia, was the first to use on Twitter the hashtag #boicottabarilla (a call to boycott the food company). This and similar hashtag (also #homophobia) were the most used on 25th September in Italy. Besides, a lot of photomontages appeared on the Web, mostly joking on the fact that the best known Barilla’s slogan is “where there’s a family, there’s a home”.

Even many women were offended by Guido Barilla, who also said that “the family to which we address our attention is the traditional family, in which the woman has a fundamental role, that of mother, wife, lover, grandmother, person who takes care of the house”.

On Facebook and Twitter many people also wrote that it doesn’t matter what Barilla said about gay people, because he’s not a politician.

The gay rights watchdog Ilga-Europe writes in its latest research that Italy has a “relatively high level of homophobia and transphobia which expresses itself through violence”. It’s not rare that gay people are beaten on the streets.

So the real problem in Italy about homophobia is beyond the words.

But is not our society also built by words?

Words by: D. Ferro

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PRILEP , CHINA ,

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GLO BALISATION AT H OM E At the end of the last October a delegation of Deyang, the Chinese city with which Prilep is twinned, came here and visited the factories of the area. Maybe, China is interested in them.

The recent history of China is an excellent example of what globalisation is.

The country began in the late 70’s the road that would have brought it to become the second economy in the world, when the leader of the Communist party Deng Xiaoping reformed the Chinese economical system. It is thanks to the globalization of the market that China has improved hugely its Gross Domestic Product (that, anyway, is not a real measure of the wealth of a population). China has hundreds millions of workers, who are paid very little in comparison to the salaries of Western countries, and so the China products (and the goods that Western companies produce in China) can easily be sold in the rich countries.

In the last years, China has become a more and more powerful country. The public debt of the United States is in

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the Chinese hands, and this is one of the reasons why the politicians of the world don’t say anything against the Chinese regime of repression.

Thanks to the development of economy, the China medium class is adopting the Western style of consumerism, and the country, to respond to the desires of its medium class and to maintain its growing economy, has to look for resources abroad, because it has the 21% of the world’s population, but only the 8.5% of the world’s available arable land, and the 6.5% of the world’s water reserves (source: International Institute for Asian Studies).

The world today it’s a global village (as we said in the last issue), and so for China it’s easy to go abroad, buy lands in the poor countries (as many other rich countries do: it’s the phenomena of “land grabbing”) and build infrastructures to have energy.

This, from the economical side. And from the cultural one? Will be China able to spread in the world its culture, like the States did in the last century?

It’s difficult to answer now. What we know, it’s that also Prilep is part of the process.

Words by: D. Ferro

Words by: S. Ortigosa

Rafael Nadal Parera was born on June 3, 1986, specifically in Manacor (Mallorca ), Spain .

His first official competition was in the Balearic Islands,and he won with only 9 years . Soon after that , at age of 11 and 12, he was champion of Spain . He won tournaments in all lower categories , perhaps the most noteworthy is the junior world championship “ le petit as “ played in France. Along with Juan Carlos Ferrero, they are the only two spanish people who have won this tournament.

Following a very good stage in the international and national (won Barletta Challenger tournaments and Naples) ,he began his adventure in the ATP World Tour , but not before leaving Junior tournament highlight .

Once on the professional circuit , he got his first success when he defeated , for example , two Top -10 as Albert Costa in the TMS Monte Carlo , and his friend and mentor, Carlos Moya, in the TMS Hamburg.

Except for Michael Chang,he is the player who entered earlier (at age 17) in the select list of the 100 best players in the world that produces ATP. He is also the second youngest player who won a Masters Series.

The August 18, 2008, reached the top position in the list of ATP players, overtaking Roger Federer after 237 weeks of leadership, and staying for 46 consecutive weeks leading classification.

In 2008 he received the “Prince of Asturias Award” for Sports and the “Marca Leyenda”,

and in 2009 received the “Grand Prize of the French Academy of Sport” for the world’s greatest feat in 2008.

Without a doubt, 2010 was the best year of this great tennis player, when he managed to win three Grand Slams and everyone echoed his feat. He received numerous awards but one of the most important was the “Laureus Sportsman” of 2010.

Currently he is on the 2º position in the ATP ranking, after winning the Masters in Cincinnati to John Isner.

The success on and off the field, reside not only in his victories and titles achieved so far, but also to their values. That is why it has become a social phenomenon, an icon of the XXI century.

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CURIOSIT

At the age of 15 years, he became the youngest player in history that won a match in an official tournament of the ATP. On July 11, 2008, the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca (OAM) announced his appointment with the name of the player, to an asteroid discovered in 2003.

Most of the people don’t know, but he is only left-handed when he has to play tennis.

For other activities like writing he is righthanded .

Rafael Nadal has an humanitarian foundation that support his name.

He is the nephew of the footballer Miguel Angel Nadal.

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TRAINING COURSE - YOUTH AND WORK The training course took place in Bucharest during 11-13 August 2013. Getting there was a great adventure, starting from busses , crossing borders, waiting and of course spending those hours with wonderful people.

In this course were participants from Hungary, Albania, Romania and Macedonia. We had opportunity to got to know about each other’s organizations.

Theme of the project was to answer the questions about the general situation in Europe about the world of work. Purpose of the training was to encourage actions and awareness at European and local level about the topic of the project. So the people who is going to arrive in the labor market to have a chance to know the available opportunities, how to improve their skills and professionalism.

We spoke about volunteering and in what way is going to help us in our career. The participants had opportunity to hear first hand volunteering experiences .

The course was interactive , there was a team work and learning through discussions.

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During the training we learned about Youth in Action programs. We were discussing how NGOs can help young people in the search of a job and we gave ideas for how to help young people to find the right job. Overall it was great experience in which we learned, met new people and even visited new places.

Words by: K. Petkoska

DIY

*Do it Yourself* 1. EYEGLASSES OR SUNGLASSES A hanger can also be used as a storage device for eyeglasses. It would still be used for storage purposes but not for the items it was intended for.

You can easily repurpose an old hanger and turn it into asunglasses(eyeglasses) holder. It’s simple and it’s practical.

2. JEWELRY

A hanger can also be used as a jewelry storage system.

All you have to do is pick a hanger that you like and that you think would look good as a jewelry holder and then attach a few small hooks to it. Then place it on a wall or anywhere else you want and enjoy your new creation.

3. SCARFS To make this scarf organizer you need one hanger and a set of inexpensive shower curtain rings. Simply clip the rings to the hanger. Slip a scarf through each ring, folding very long scarves in half first.

4. BELTS All you need to do is drill a few holes into the bottom of a wooden coat hanger, screw in some hooks and you have the perfect DIY belt hanger organization that is functional and best of all, space saving. Once you’ve made one of these belt hangers, you’ll never want to use anything else to organize your belts!

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by: M. Ad zioska

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