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Youth Magazine VOICES
Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The main aim of this EVS project was to bring together and give positive cooperation experience to young people coming from different cultural and social backgrounds. Volunteer from Slovenia worked 12 months in Skopje, Macedonia, and cooperated with local volunteers and more experienced international volunteers in the creation of magazine for young people from Skopje in Macedonian, Albanian and English languages called VOICES. Volunteer also mainly worked with children and youngsters with fewer opportunities (street children, children without parental care, children and youngsters from ethnical groups facing discrimination and social exclusion and youngsters from rural and border areas) and planed and organized workshops that aimed to develop artistic and creative skills or foreign language knowledge. The thematical concept and aim of the magazine was to turn attention of young people to social and environmental topics that receives poor coverage in mainstream media and to promote local and international voluntarism and non-formal education programs. Volunteer was involved in the all tasks of magazine publishing. He was researching on actualities, issues and informative needs of young people in Skopje, wwas writting news articles, features and interviews, took pictures, made the design of the magazine and distributed it in the universities, libraries, cafes and in other NGOs. In later stages of project volunteer in the cooperation with organization staff were responsible also for creating and leading workshops to local students about media role in the society, about journalism, photography and design.
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