Well, the meetings turned out to be productive in the planning of a project that we are going to implement. It is completely FROM the youth FOR the youth of Macedonia, and it is also completely free of charge. We have organized a series of workshops that will help the selected participants gain essential skills for more efficient and successful job …

Yesterday ”Youth Council of the US Embassy” celebrated its 1st anniversary and held a farewell party for the US Embassy representatives who have been working and coordinating Youth Council during this year. Youth Council had the chance to say thank you to Mrs. Kim Spivak, Mr. Brian Bauer and Mrs. Angela Aggeler for their great contribution on creating, managing and …

Recycling, humanity and help for the people with special needs enables the “Macedonia Cap project” which was presented at the American Corner Tetovo by Gezim Qahili and Vesel Qazimi.They undertook the mission to raise the awareness of the citizens in collecting plastic caps with which in the end they manage to get wheelchairs for the people that cannot walk on …

The YC member Jetmir Ziba, represented the Youth Council of the U.S Embassy in the 7th Ministerial Meeting of The Community of Democracy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Report for the Civil Society Forum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Community of Democracies

High school students from Struga joined and supported the initiative the Youth Council of the U.S Embassy in Republic of Macedonia in their initiative to keep the Earth Clean, Green and Colorful

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwk92Rby8U0&feature=youtu.be] The Find the Green initiative we launched in the beginning of April to challenge schools across Macedonia to help clean the environment has taken off with mass success. A school in Skopje, Cair, Petar Zdravkovski-Penko, joined in the challenge. They were no strangers to cleaning up in April, they have an annual tradition of helping in some way for …

The Youth Council challenge video motivated students from elementary school Vasil Glavinov from Chair to organize a clean up action in the school yard. 20 students from different background started the action that resulted with raising awareness among the students about the meaning of Earth day, keeping the Earth clean by keeping our community clean. Caring about our environment means …

On the occasion of Earth Day the elementary school “A.S.-Kjikjish” from Tetovo organized a series of activities with students from first to eighth grade. The goal of all activities was for children from early age to increase their awareness of environmental maintenance  which is important for all of us, regardless of age and faith, and to develop habits for waste care, …

Elementary School “Blagoj Kirkov” – Veles Photos of the celebration of Earth Day on April 22 presenting the activity called “Cleaner-better school environment”. About 200 students participated and conducted three activities: cleaning the school yard, planting trees and flowers and collecting plastic bottles. Students and teachers were satisfied and wish to have more activities of this nature.

Centre for Social Initiatives NADEZ  They began the activities by reading the children’s story ‘Let me tell you a secret for the environment’ to the youngest children coming to the Youth Centre. The book is published by the EU Commission and raises awareness of the various ways we pollute our Planet on a daily basis. When they finished the story, …