An Introduction to Volunteering

Volunteering is work without pay; the branch of philanthropy in which time replaces cheque book. But what type of work? Herein lies much confusion. In the UK, volunteering opportunities range from “defence of the realm” to chauffering tennis superstars to Wimbledon. The word “volunteer” is a victim of the slippery english language, its meaning changing over time at ever-increasing speed as politicians borrow its virtues and as Americans grapple with its unpoetic derivative forms. Read more.

03.11.2008 The Bitola Youth Cultural Centre, the national volunteering centre in Macedonia, started the implementation of the Local Volunteering Service project.

11.06.2008 In its 20th Session of May 9, 2008, the National Parliament of the Republic of Srpska adopted the Draft-Law on Volunteering. The Draft will not be submitted for public debate, and the final Draft should be addopted in September or October this year.

06.08.2007 Alen Jusufovic’s story, by his own account, starts in 2005, when a girl from Poland told him about RIVER SEE EVS programme. The rest, as the old saying goes, is history. A very personal and, yet, very enlightening and universal story.

05.12.2007 On the occasion of December 5 – the International Volunteer Day, the Youth Cultural Centre from Bitola promoted the Manual on International Volunteer Service, part of the series of manuals prepared by the Council of Europe, translated in Macedonian for the first time.