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Let’s Speak Freely is a project that is going to be implemented by Youth Council Prilep and supported be The American Embassy in Republic of Macedonia in the period of October 2011 - July 2012.
The goal of this project is to improve the freedom of speech in Prilep by empowering young journalists from different ethnic backgrounds and raising the awareness of students to exercise their voice. The project will improve media independence, strengthen the education of all the young people involved, and allow the students and young people express themselves.
The project “Let’s Speak Freely” will directly involve 47 young people and indirectly target an additional 250 young people from different ethnic backgrounds. The project will train 17 young people in video journalism. As a part of the project, the young journalists will create video news clips and a website will be created to publish all youth reporter video news. Finally, the best submission will be selected by TV Kanal Vizia, a local television station. All members of the Journalists Groups will be recognized with a certificate and the 3 members of the winning PEER Group will be awarded an internship in respected Medias in Prilep.
Youth Council Prilep has set donation boxes in Hotel Biser in Struga and in the Bangkok Thailand Restaurant in Prilep. The donation boxes are part of the public fundraising campaign "Lets help Young People to make the first step" as one of the tools for raising funds to contribute towards decreasing the youth unemployment in Prilep and improvement of young people everyday live in general. Every citizen interested to support the campaign can donate through these two new set donation boxes on the above mentioned locations.
Wake up! Action for youth!
Youth Council Prilep, from 22 - 27 August 2011, in Hotel Klimetica Ohrid, Macedonia is organizing 5 day international training course, where 30 participants from 10 European countries will learn and share experience how to create and implement projects that in great sense will promote inter-cultural youth work in multicultural environments.
The main aim of the seminar is raising the capacities of the youth NGO's from Europe to promote inter-cultural dialogue and mutual understanding between young people. On this event the participants will learn how to create quality projects that in wider sense will promote equality, and understanding between European youth.
The project is financially supported by European Youth Foundation and Council of Europe.
Youth Council Prilep organized a Multicultural Dinner on 11 March 2011 at 20 00 in the bar Taverna as part of the public fundraising campaign "Let’s help the young people to make the first step”.
At the event, the guests had the opportunity to try 27 different kinds of food and cuisine from around the world, prepared by volunteers from the U.S. Peace Corps in Macedonia, which this year is celebrating its 50th anniversary and experience interculturality and diversity in one place.
The campaign aims to provide support for three young unemployed people from Prilep to learn a trade, gain professional skills over a period of 6 months which will make them independent and competitive in the labor market. The funds donated will cover daily expenses of young people over a period of 6 months for the acquisition of skills which will enable youth to become more competitive in the labor market, to gain more opportunities for self-employment and to settle their social status.
Funds raised from the event in total of 3100 MKD are earmarked for the campaign for youth employment "Let’s help young people to make the first step."
The event was media covered by www.10bez10.com and TV Vizija.
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Youth Council Prilep has consistently shown excellence in the youth field through its work in a wide variety of youth work. Youth Council Prilep, together with Youth Council Ohrid and HOPS, founded the Coalition of Youth organizations SEGA, the leading national umbrella group of youth organizations in Macedonia
In short, Youth Council Prilep works for youth with youth.
