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Youth Magazine VOICES
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The main aim of this EVS project is to bring together and give positive cooperation experience to young people coming from different cultural and social backgrounds. 2 volunteers from France will work 12 months in Skopje, Macedonia, from 1st October 2015, and cooperate with local volunteers and more experienced international volunteers in the creation of a magazine for young people from Skopje in Macedonian, Albanian and English, called "VOICES". Upon their interests and knowledge, volunteers will also work 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) to plan and organize workshops that aim to develop artistical and creative skills and/or foreign language knowledge. The thematical concept and aim of the magazine is to draw the attention of young people on social and environmental topics that receives poor coverage in mainstream media and to promote local and international voluntary work and non-formal education programs. Volunteers will be involved in all tasks of the magazine publishing. They will do researches on actualities, issues and informative needs of young people in Skopje, write news' articles, features and interviews, take pictures, make the design of the magazine and distribute it in the universities, libraries, cafés and in other NGOs. In later stages of the project, volunteers will be responsible also for creating and leading workshops for local students about media role in society, about journalism, photography and design, in cooperation with the organization staff.
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