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 How many more answers for the rough estimations?“The media have really criticized you!” This was the usual comment of those who mean (no) harm regarding the articles in the daily and weekly papers (more rarely in the electronic media) in the days when there was an extremely high interest concerning the work of the civil society organizations in Macedonia. Such an interest about the civil society organizations has not been recorded since the elections for SSUKM president in 2002 when, unfortunately, due to the negative news, it reached the front pages of the papers and the news headlines in the electronic media. |  |
Dealing with poverty
Macedonia is asking itself – how to get by on 150 denars a day?Every fourth citizen of Macedonia has only 150 denars a day to get by. Unemployment has reached a record number of 400.000 unemployed. According to the statistics, in Macedonia there are 250.000 pensioners and 60.000 of them are trying to get by on 5.200 denars per month. Eighty thousand Macedonian families receive social help. Poverty follows households where breadwinners are pensioners, people who have been made redundant and unemployed. In comparison with the East European countries, only Albania and Moldavia live more poorly than us.
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TRUSTIn this and the next few issues we are going to present parts of the Report on trust, responsibility for social issues and charity in Macedonia. The report has been prepared on the basis of two surveys: Trust in the civil society organizations and Charity in the Republic of Macedonia. The surveys have been carried out by the Institute for Sociological and Political-Legal Researches in April 2006. The Report has been prepared by the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC). | |
Interview: Saso Dodovski, administrative manager in YCC in Bitola
Young people’s interests in volunteering activities is really bigYoung people can discover and develop their creative potentials in the Youth Cultural Center in Bitola and it has managed to take a respected place in the town and the NGO sector in the country. What are your activities mainly focused on this autumn? | |
Southeast European Youth Network – SEEYN
Awards for developing the volunteeringOn 21 September 2006, the Southeast European Youth Network has presented the awards for developing the volunteering. The winners were 13 organizations and individuals from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. Even though this award has had a long running tradition, this year it was presented for the first time on local level. SEEYN has been presenting awards on local level in the past within the International Volunteering Day. | |
History of the civil society
61 years UN, 25 years Skopje Jazz FestivalThe United Nations Organization celebrated its 61st birthday on 24 October – The International UN Day. The UN office in Macedonia marked the celebration in Skopje, with an Open Day at Ramstore Mall. The focus of the celebration was placed on “Stand up” campaign, whose goal was to raise the awareness on the Millennium Development Goals and to support the fight against poverty. | |
Presentation
Civic movement – Wake up! – SkopjeOn 18 October 2006 in Skopje, the civic movement “Wake up!” is organizing the tribune called “Inter-political party dialogue – the way forward”. Participants at the tribune are the leaders of the political parties in Macedonia and international community representatives. | |
Alternative way of solving the youth unemployment in SEE
Green jobs are the future of Orestidos municipalityAs the red bus was driving our group through the villages in the municipality Orestidos near Kastoria (north-west of Greece), I could not but remind myself of the thought and the words “fields of corn, hills of blood” which stand in the title of Anastasia Karakasidu’s book, which is dedicated to this very region, these fields and mountains we were observing from the bus. | |
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