First issue - PTPI Skopje newsletter
The past three months have been really exciting for our chapter. On November 13th we celebrated the day our capital was set free during World War II by organizing an event called “I love Skopje because…”. The purpose of the event was to find out why the people of Skopje love their city. About 30 chapter members gathered at the city square and asked people that passed by to complete the sentence: “I love Skopje because…” giving one reason why Skopje makes them happy. Later, the chapter members made a poster with all the answers.
Afterwards, for the International Volunteerism Day, the chapter organized a language workshop with the children from the kindergarten “Detska Radost”. The participants transferred their knowledge of Turkish, Italian, French and Portuguese to the eager children. Later, the chapter members played games like twister or day-night with the kids. The children were really happy to learn something new and spend some time with someone older than them.
For the most of December, the chapter planned its biggest event of the year, the Frozen Flash-Mob. The chapter had to find about 200 participants in order to achieve greater effect and be noticed by the people and media. After a full month of preparation, on December 30th, 200 teenagers froze for 5 minutes at the Macedonia square and Skopje City Mall spreading the message: “Don’t be frozen, act”. The people of Skopje were confused because they had never seen anything like this before. The event gathered huge attention from the media as it was reported by several viral websites in Macedonia. The public was thrilled by the initiative taken by youths to promote a message of volunteerism.
To finish 2012 on a great note, the chapter received a gold award for furthering PTPI mission of Peace through Understanding. This was the first gold award won by the Skopje PTPI Chapter.
We started 2013 by welcoming the members of the sister chapter Varna Dolphins for a 5-day long homestay. During their stay we did a lot of activities including bowling, hiking, cultural visits such as going to the Old Bazaar and the Skopje Fortress. We took our guests to try traditional Macedonian food and experience the Skopje nightlife. But, the most important thing we did was create memories that will last forever. On the last day of the homestay, we agreed to do another project together. On February 28th, at the same time, both chapters will organize a Book day in a local hospital. Both chapters will donate books and spend some time with the children there.
Filip Bujaroski and Ilina Dimovska,
Public Relations Officers
Afterwards, for the International Volunteerism Day, the chapter organized a language workshop with the children from the kindergarten “Detska Radost”. The participants transferred their knowledge of Turkish, Italian, French and Portuguese to the eager children. Later, the chapter members played games like twister or day-night with the kids. The children were really happy to learn something new and spend some time with someone older than them.
For the most of December, the chapter planned its biggest event of the year, the Frozen Flash-Mob. The chapter had to find about 200 participants in order to achieve greater effect and be noticed by the people and media. After a full month of preparation, on December 30th, 200 teenagers froze for 5 minutes at the Macedonia square and Skopje City Mall spreading the message: “Don’t be frozen, act”. The people of Skopje were confused because they had never seen anything like this before. The event gathered huge attention from the media as it was reported by several viral websites in Macedonia. The public was thrilled by the initiative taken by youths to promote a message of volunteerism.
To finish 2012 on a great note, the chapter received a gold award for furthering PTPI mission of Peace through Understanding. This was the first gold award won by the Skopje PTPI Chapter.
We started 2013 by welcoming the members of the sister chapter Varna Dolphins for a 5-day long homestay. During their stay we did a lot of activities including bowling, hiking, cultural visits such as going to the Old Bazaar and the Skopje Fortress. We took our guests to try traditional Macedonian food and experience the Skopje nightlife. But, the most important thing we did was create memories that will last forever. On the last day of the homestay, we agreed to do another project together. On February 28th, at the same time, both chapters will organize a Book day in a local hospital. Both chapters will donate books and spend some time with the children there.
Filip Bujaroski and Ilina Dimovska,
Public Relations Officers