VOICES

VOICES Our monthly magazine has a very simple, yet powerful mission – to be the voice of youth.

VOICES is produced in Skopje, Macedonia, and published online every month and four times per year as a printed edition. It is coordinated in Volunteers Centre Skopje and created completely by local and international volunteers. Since volunteers are always changing, this 15-year journey has been full of diverse nationalities and personalities – and those changes are reflected in the magazine. The d

oors are open to each and every one of you, despite the professional skills or experience! VOICES to Hear podcast is our newest addition where our volunteers are talking about interesting topics with the guests. Listen the episodes on:

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Google Podcast: shorturl.at/lDVYZ

Rising pollution, dwindling fossil fuels, and higher vehicle costs. When you look at it from this perspective, electric ...
24/10/2025

Rising pollution, dwindling fossil fuels, and higher vehicle costs. When you look at it from this perspective, electric cars seem like a logical choice, but if we examine it deeply, we see that it is not actually like that.

Discover more about cars here 👇

Rising pollution, dwindling fossil fuels, and higher vehicle costs. When you look at it from this perspective, electric cars seem like a logical choice but if we examine it deeply, we see that it i…

This body is a spacious houseThere is room for joy -sometimes a living room, spiraled and alive with houseplants,sometim...
22/10/2025

This body is a spacious house

There is room for joy -
sometimes a living room, spiraled and alive with houseplants,
sometimes a garden with an empty bench.

There is room for grief -
sometimes in a basement,
sometimes on a chair by the window.

There is room for anger -
sometimes in a closet under the stairs,
sometimes at a kitchen table.

There is room for stillness -
sometimes it waits in a tea cabinet,
or between the pages of an old book.

There is room for hope -
sometimes it rests on a windowsill, watching the trees,
sometimes it whispers, closed in the attic upstairs.

Courage also sits there -
sometimes silently under the bed,
or stands next to the entrance door.

This body can hold much more.
It is a spacious house.

Lukáš Sabol

There is room for joy -sometimes a living room, spiraled and alive with houseplants,sometimes a garden with an empty bench. There is room for grief -sometimes in a basement,sometimes on a chair by …

💭 For the first time in months, something that I kind of dreaded before coming here finally happened. That is not having...
21/10/2025

💭 For the first time in months, something that I kind of dreaded before coming here finally happened. That is not having the motivation to write an article. It’s not so much that I don’t have ideas of what I can write about, as I have a list with a few ideas that I collected over the past few months, with some ideas of articles that I could write. However, for the first time in months, not one of these ideas spoke to my mind enough to push me to actively start writing about them. That being said, writing articles is something that I really enjoy doing. So now that I finally pushed myself to start writing something, I would like to reflect on the different possible reasons behind this writer’s block.

Find out the reasons of this writer’s block here 👇

For the first time in months, something that I kind of dreaded before coming here finally happened. That is not having the motivation to write an article. It’s not so much that I don’t have ideas o…

Not too lateThe last wavesHave fled the shoreInto a thousand dropletsDissolved, crumbledAgainst neighboring coastsThey a...
16/10/2025

Not too late

The last waves
Have fled the shore
Into a thousand droplets
Dissolved, crumbled
Against neighboring coasts

They aren’t gone
They aren’t dried
Densed in nameless
Salts
Bitter or tasteless

They exist
They gulp
They slither
Beneath newborn rays
In shifting lights

They reflect
Another shard of sun
Scorchingly
The very same sun..Perhaps it's not too late

Jona Cenameri

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The last waves Have fled the shore Into a thousand droplets Dissolved, crumbled Against neighboring coasts They aren’t gone They aren’t dried Densed in nameless Salts Bitter or tasteless They exist…

📃When my mom told me she was filing the documents to become a German citizen, my first thought was “Finally!”. For a sec...
15/10/2025

📃When my mom told me she was filing the documents to become a German citizen, my first thought was “Finally!”. For a second, I felt the triumphant sensation that inevitably follows winning a long-running argument. But although I had been trying for years to convince my mom of assuming German citizenship, it soon occurred to me that it was in fact not my own but rather my mom’s victory. By claiming German citizenship, she is reclaiming not only her own voice but also the voice of all the millions of people sharing her story, or rather our story: descending from the so-called “guest-workers”.

Discover more about the history of “guest-workers” 👇

When my mom told me she was filing the documents to become a German citizen, my first thought was “Finally!”. For a second, I felt the triumphant sensation that inevitably follows winning a long-ru…

🌱 Some things in life move us so deeply that they change the way we see the world. They shake our perspective, make us p...
13/10/2025

🌱 Some things in life move us so deeply that they change the way we see the world. They shake our perspective, make us pause, and invite us to breathe differently. For me, that moment came with a book: “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz.

Discover more about this moving book. 👇

Some things in life move us so deeply that they change the way we see the world. They shake our perspective, make us pause, and invite us to breathe differently. For me, that moment came with a boo…

🎤 So, the expression of Hip-Hop started here, but what is Hip-Hop? That’s a cultural movement born during the 1970s, wit...
08/10/2025

🎤 So, the expression of Hip-Hop started here, but what is Hip-Hop? That’s a cultural movement born during the 1970s, with five pillars. Breakdancing, MCing, DJing, Graffiting, and Beatboxing. Around this world, you also have the mode, and the Caribbean cultural and values influence, which will become another culture afterwards.

🌎 And ALL this Caribbean melting pot, created the PLACE TO BE for music culture in the Bronx, with the Salsa, Funk, Merengue, Bachata, Reggae, Dancehall… Literally, worldwide music is a bombshell. And now this is the moment when Clive Campbell, aka Kool Herc, will appear.

Find out more about the birth of Rap here 👇

How do you create the rap genre? You first have to create the hip-hop movement. And how do you create the Hip-Hop movement? Poverty, drugs, and the Afro-Caribbean community. Now you have Hip-Hop. E…

🎭 Women’s voices were long silenced, but the stage gave them a place to resist. From Lysistrata’s humor, Adela’s tragedy...
07/10/2025

🎭 Women’s voices were long silenced, but the stage gave them a place to resist. From Lysistrata’s humor, Adela’s tragedy, Nora’s slammed door, to Emel’s real-life defiance with Afife Jale, these stories reveal women’s unbroken struggle for freedom. Different times, different battles, yet the same demand: to live and speak freely.
Discover more about women’s challenges portrayed on stage. 👇

Throughout history, women were often silenced. Yet the stage gave them a way to speak, to protest, and to resist. The theatre stage is more than entertainment. It shows hidden problems, social pres…

Volunteering in Olde Vechte Foundation for two months was similar to immersing oneself in a vibrant mosaic of culture an...
06/10/2025

Volunteering in Olde Vechte Foundation for two months was similar to immersing oneself in a vibrant mosaic of culture and community. Each day brings new experiences, allowing me to connect deeply with the locals and contribute meaningfully to various projects. The time I spent there will stay with me for the rest of my life, as it was my first volunteering experience abroad. The connections I made and the insight I gained from various situations and experiences significantly broadened my perspectives.

Read more about Ommen here 👇

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Volunteering in Olde Vechte for two months was similar to immersing oneself in a vibrant mosaic of culture and community. Each day brings new experiences, allowing me to connect deeply with the loc…

🌾Ten days, four countries, one shared idea – young people becoming ambassadors of the rural spirit. The “Rural Youth Amb...
03/10/2025

🌾Ten days, four countries, one shared idea – young people becoming ambassadors of the rural spirit. The “Rural Youth Ambassadors” project took us to Brajchino, a village that at first glance seems frozen in time, yet quietly holds answers for the future.
Brajchino welcomed us with stone paths and houses carrying the weight of generations. But it was there, in the heart of silence, that the loudest conversations began: how to keep life in rural areas alive, how to encourage young people not to leave the village, but to transform it into a place of new opportunities.

Discover more about Erasmus+ project in Brajchino👇

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Ten days, four countries, one shared idea – young people becoming ambassadors of the rural spirit. The “Rural Youth Ambassadors” project took us to Brajchino, a village that at first glance seems f…

💭 The hardest part of living abroad? Well, sometimes it’s coming back. Instead of comforting, being back home can be fru...
02/10/2025

💭 The hardest part of living abroad? Well, sometimes it’s coming back. Instead of comforting, being back home can be frustrating, confusing and depressing, especially if you didn't miss a single thing there. Obviously, everyone goes through it differently, and I’m quite an extreme example. Despite that – or maybe because of that – I want to share my experience. We'll talk about my feelings, random thoughts, reverse culture shock and ways to deal with it, so I hope you're ready for a ride.

Discover more about reverse culture shock 👇



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The hardest part of living abroad? Well, sometimes it’s coming back. Instead of comforting, being back home can be frustrating, confusing and depressing, especially if you didn’t miss a singl…

"The thought of returning home soon, along with all the emotions that come with it, is slowly starting to scare me. But ...
01/10/2025

"The thought of returning home soon, along with all the emotions that come with it, is slowly starting to scare me. But there’s at least one comforting thought I can hold onto. I’m uncertain about most things in my life, but there’s one thing I’m sure of. And it’s that I will come back in the future. So while my time here as a volunteer is entering its final chapter, my time in Macedonia, or the Balkans in general, is only in its opening act… "

This October, while trees are starting to shed their stories in leaves, we gather ours in the pages of this new edition of VOICES! 🍂😊

As the air grows cooler and the leaves begin to fall, I’m reminded that my time here is also slowly but surely coming to an end. Indeed, while it still does feel surreal to say it, I’ve been here f…

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VOICES is a monthly magazine for all young people around the world and it is a project of Volunteers Centre Skopje. It was created to provide more opportunities for young people.

The creators of this project are volunteers working in Volunteers Centre Skopje. They come from different European countries to do here their European Solidarity Corps volunteering program under Erasmus+. The volunteers are creating VOICES every month from scratch; coordinating meetings and the content of the edition, writing articles and designing the magazine.

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