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Upcoming Events

Open Hours

The office is open Monday to Friday from 10.30 to 14.30 o'clock.
Open hours for membership and information for ongoing activities are on the meetings in Thursdays from 19.30 to 21.00 o'clock.
NOTE: Due outdoor activities, the office will be closed untill May 18th!

Young Men's Leadership Project

The story of this camp begins in 2007 when it was organized the first camp. Since then, the camps take place every summer. This year the camp is organized by YMCA Bitola and the Peace Corps volunteers with other partners. At the camp will take place 60 children of different ethnicity and religion from around the country. The camp this year will be held from 27th June to 4th July.

If you want to learn more about the camp please visit the camp's web site.
If you want to support it with personal donation that you can do it here.

Developing Budgets

We organize two one-hour long seminars led by Peace Corps Volunteer and Accountant Dan Polykov. The event will happen on 14th May at the American Corner.

17:30 - Developing Budgets for NGOs with a focus on the importance of financial budgeting, easy and useful ways of inputting data into Microsoft Excel, and using Excel to calculate a budget. 
19:00 - Creating Personal Budgets with a focus on the importance of keeping track of personal spending, ways to keep track of individual finances, methods of ensuring you stick to your budget.
 
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Youth Assembly 2012 in Strasbourg

The Youth Assembly will be at Strasbourg in the period 4-8 October.

Deadline for applications is 30 May!

More details here.

Campaign “Information Right Now“

The campaign aims to bring the young people, decision makers and the media the right to ask and receive information.

This campaign was initiated by ERYICA (European Youth Information and Conselling Agency) in collaboration with the Council of Europe and will be implemented in Europe during the year in several key dates. In Macedonia the Coalition of youth organizations SEGA in several cities across the country will organize activities.
 
The activities in Bitola will be conducted by YMCA Bitola in coordination with the Youth Forum.
 
April 17 at 15.00 pm happened reception at the President of the Municipality of Bitola on 60 active youth in the field of youth representation from primary and secondary schools.
 
More on the official web site of the campaign:
http://www.informationrightnow.eu/

YES Seminar 2012

The aim of YES (YMCA European Spectrum) is to bring a full spectrum of opinions from YMCA-youth from across Europe to the place where decisions about YMCA Europe are made. This seminar is at the same time when the General Assembly of YMCA Europe take place which will take place on the same venue.

Details for the event on the following link.

Volunteer EVS at YMCA Bitola! - CLOSED!

Open call for two volunteer placements for EVS at YMCA Bitola!

Complete the EVS application form in WORD and send it to: evs@ymcabitola.org.mk before 12th of January!

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Trainings offer

This training opportunity is only for local volunteers and the details are on the Macedonian verson of the web page.

Volunteer in YMCA Bitola (for local volunteers)

Open positions for local volunteers:

  1. Graphic designer for all published promotion materials of YMCA Bitola
  2. Video editor for recording and video editing
  3. Translator into English
  4. Researcher on the topic of available resources accessible for the NGOs in Macedonia

NOTE: We don't expect professionalism, but enthusiasm!

Let's do it Macedonia!

We  invite you to join in the action for cleanup of illegal dumps and waste sites, as well as raising awareness for proper treatment of waste in Macedonia. This global action will take place in about 100 countries worldwide during 2012. The intent is to encourage activation of the Macedonian public in locating and cleaning the scattered waste, and education on proper disposal, and for the damages caused by unplanned dumping waste. The ultimate goal is to find sustainable solutions to contribute to a clean environment. The project includes a combination of actions for locating waste micro-points, actions to clean the environment and educational programs to develop awareness of positive management practices with various types of waste. One of the central activities planned this year is organization of NATIONAL CLEAN UP DAY, which will be held on October 6, 2012 on the territory of Macedonia. For the Planet Earth! For Us! JOIN US! More on http://ajdemakedonija.mk/

Annual Assembly of YMCA Bitola

In May will be the next Annual Assembly of YMCA Bitola. Soon will be promoted the exact period.

Within the Assembly there is open call for new positions of the Executive Board which is available only for Macedonian participants.

ICCP summer camps in USA!

If you want to join a camp, work with kids, improve your English, and have amazing summer, then we recommend the ICCP program in U.S.A. See the promotional video for ICCP. Each year in October starts the process of recruiting camp couselors who go in various children summer camps lasting ten weeks.

For information visit us in person in the open hours mentioned above or on-line via skype on ymca.bitola. Follow us also on our fan page on Facebook.

YMCA Festival in Prague 2013

The "Love 2 Live" Festival will provide a unique opportunity for 10,000 young people from across Europe and the world to come together to celebrate life, celebrate culture, celebrate diversity and celebrate all that is inspiring about being young in Europe and the wider world. See the video and more info at: www.yefestival.com

Visiting Bitola

If you are coming for first time in Bitola, take a look the three videos for Bitola which are at the bottom of the menu multimedia / videos.

Video
Balkan Camp 2011 - “The Return to Camp Nymphaio“

The Balkan YMCA camp, located 1,500 m above the sea level on Mount Vici in the northern part of Greece, again united the Balkan countries in unforgettable friendship and fun. Again, the surrounding neighboring countries from the Balkans had various opportunities to demonstrate their uniqueness through different cultural games...

Read the whole story in NotifY 35!

Balkan Camp 2011 - “The Return to Camp Nymphaio“
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Comic
Comics for the “United we stand“ seminar

Аbout 30 participants gathered from 10 countries to work for a week in may 2011 during the seminar "United we stand" in the YMCA centre in the beautiful Poggio Mirteto in Italy.

The main aim of the seminar was to implement social inclusion of the people with fewer opportunities by sharing relevant experiences of local and international stakeholders, networking among them and providing tools to support the process.
 
The comics is made by Y-Comic of YMCA Bitola.
 
The whole story you have it in NotifY 34.
Comics for the “United we stand“ seminar
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