If you want to know what’s going on in creACTive’s Youth Center in Kavadarci you can always check the online picture library. It’s regularly updated!

Here is the link: http://picasaweb.google.fr/sakinagril/

Enjoy

American Corner was hosting an event on voluntarism for High School youth from the Skopje area. They asked me to give a presentation about creACTive Skopje to draw volunteers to help creACTive or become members. I believe it was a success. After the presentation I relieved a lot of interest enthusiasm for creACTive. I hope this helped and in the future American Corner said they would be happy to speak at creACTive about how go apply to attend an American University.

Scott Pinkster

From 16th of March we will welcome our new EVS volunteers:

Aga from Poland
Caroline from Sweden
Carolina from Portugal
Tiago from Portugal and
Pedro from Portugal.

They are all going to work in our Youth Club in Skopje on different activities, and Pedro will join the team in Kavadarci working with the young people in the Youth Center

We would like to inform you that the SALTO-YOUTH SEE Resource Center of the Youth in Action Programme has published a new handbook for EVS promoters. “Hopscotch to Quality in EVS” will be of use for everyone who works with EVS volunteers – hosting, sending and coordinating organizations; but also for the EVS volunteers themselves! The handbook is now available online and can be downloaded at the following link: http://www.salto-youth.net/download/2006

For other publications and activities of SALTO-YOUTH SEE please check their web page: www.salto-youth.net/see

Thanks to all friends and colleagues who celebrated with us.

Bellow are few photos of the celebration party.

Celebrating creACTive’s birthday in the Youth Center Kreaktiv Kavadarci

We invite you to celebrate together with us the 3rd Birthday of creACTive.

Date: 06/02/2010

Starting time: 19:00

Place: creACTive’s office

We are looking for a volunteer from Sweden for approved EVS project.
The project is starting in March 2010 and will end in November 2010.

More information about the project you can find at the following web site: EVS project in Skopje

If you are interested to join please send us your CV and motivation letter to markoski@kreaktiv.mk

Summary of the project

This multilateral youth exchange is designed to make an impact on the local population’s awareness of environmental issues. Objectives focus on improving participants’ interdisciplinary knowledge; changing their attitudes about community involvement or civic action; and increasing their abilities in working in groups, solving problems, and applying their knowledge to real-world problems using ‘learning by doing’ methods.

The group of 30 young people from South East Europe and Western European countries will spend eight days together where, through group activities, they will have an opportunity to increase their interest, awareness and knowledge about protecting nature and raising their awareness about environment.

There will be plenty of workshops developed that will address nature and environment at the personal, local, and global levels. Workshops will provide a mix of simulations, role plays, reflection, case studies, discussions, and other experiential activities that help participants.

The Exchange will combat all kinds of indoor and outdoor activities, where participants will have numerous opportunities to express their opinions and influence the local community in raising awareness about the protection of the nature.

The main goal of this youth Exchange is strengthening the participation of youth in environmental protection , devising new forms of action, more effective education and media presentation s of environmental issues.

Objectives

The objectives of the Exchange are as follows:

· To encourage young people to create an inventory of their elders’ / conventional wisdom from their own community.

· To discuss questions of how to live in an ecologically sound fashion in a particular place, rather than questions of how to organise political action.

· To promote environmental education and to translate commitments towards the environment into concrete action of any kind.

Participants:

Four participants from each country plus one youth leader

Partners:

Programme Countries and South East European Countries.

Financial rules:

For Advanced Planing Visit – 100% reimbursement for group leaders, for Youth Exchange – 70% reimbursement of all travel costs

In case you are willing to support this Exchange, please fill the attached agreement and send it first as a scanned version by email to jvalentina@cre-act-ive.org or fax at +389 2 3220 994 followed by a hard copy by post to:

creACTive
Str. Nikola Vukmirovic 23/3 1060 Skopje, Macedonia

YOUTH EXCHANGE “Revitalizing our old traditional games”

MACEDONIA, winter , 2010

Summary of the Exchange:

This Exchange is planned to provide guidance on the opportunities that participants need to develop their knowledge and understanding of cultural diversity during its implementation.

During eight days programme young people from  different countries with different cultural backgrounds will be involved in planning and organising their own activities, experience decision making processes and responsibilities and test new culture and values. They will work together in collecting and testing different creative and peaceful games that their parents played in the past, instead the violence ones that are presented today. Games will help them for promotion of multi-cultural understanding which is close related to aspects of personal and social development where participant’s self-esteem is promoted and participants are encouraged to think about and respect the feelings of others. Structured activities such as: collecting peaceful and creative games, research, adjustment and preparation of an educational pack of the games, community field trips will offer to the participants to learn about themselves, learn about other culture and ultimately change their life and communities

Objectives:

The objectives of the Exchange are as follows:

• To raise awereness among young people about the bad influence of war games and weapon toys.
• To become aware about the importance of  introduction of  peaceful games and exercise.
• To prepare and publish an Educational pack of peaceful and creative games.

Participants:

Four participants from each country plus one youth leader

Partners:

Programme Countries and South East European Countries.

Financial rules:

For APV – 100% reimbursement for group leaders, for Youth Exchange – 70% reimbursement of all travel costs

In case you are willing to support the action, please fill the part III of the application forms  and send it first by FAX (or as scanned version by email) and following by post mail to:

Youth Association creACTive  Street: Nikola Vukmirovic 23/3 1060 Skopje, Macedonia

For more detailed question contact the project coordinator Valentina Joshevska at jvalentina@cre-act-ive.org

Be part of the 3 day workshop on Human trafficking in the Youth Center of creACTive in Kavadarci.

Dates and starting time of the workshop:

Thursday 21.01.2010 at 19:00

Friday 22.01.2010 at 19:00

Saturday 23.01.2010 at 19:00

Join us to explore the issue together!