Local Activities

This year again, VCS has organized several activities, in order to promote the intercultural, capacity building of youth workers, volunteerism and opportunities for young people from the city of Skopje and outside. Our local and EVS volunteers over the past year implemented a range of activities of creative, social and educational character. Activities aimed at encouraging young people to be more active, upgrading their knowledge and skills and of course creating new local and international friendships.

VCS organized a range of workshops at local schools aiming to train young people and raise awareness on a number of issues such as equal rights or discrimination in the form of nonformal education. The workshops are also aimed to empower young people by teaching them new skills such as presenting them self, teamwork and personal development.

WIZZAIR MARATHON

As every year, VCS took part on WizzAir marathon with volunteers, by handing water and snacks to the runners and keeping the road clean.

MOVIE NIGHTS

For the early evenings we displayed German, France, Polish movies for the public.

PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE

Our volunteer from Estonia organized workshops about photography and introduce the participants to the first steps.

GERMAN & FRENCH CLASSES

Our volunteers from Germany and France kept weekly conversation classes with the basics of the German and French languages in our office for several participants.

LANGUAGE KARAOKE

Classical event for the evenings every month, held in Studio Pub. Microphone was in someone’s hand all the time, people sang in different languages and had a good time.

MEET NEW OPPORTUNITY, MEET EVS!

Event in Gostivar to promote Erasmus and EVS programs for young people.

BOARDGAME NIGHT

Teaming up with our partner American Corner Skopje, we held board game nights together in our and in their office.

PUB QUIZ

Questions from cultures, languages, countries, food... Our pub quizzes took place in Beertija Pub with many teams competing victory!

OPEN STAGE

The stage was open for all performances at Beertija Pub. Several people took the stage by playing guitar and singing, as well as audience sang along.