Important
events
In
Macedonia project activities began right after Work Plan and
Time Frame was developed. All preparation activities were
completed while work plan was developed.
Close
cooperation was established with the National Employment Agency
and its Employment centres in cities Skopje and Bitola. Also,
good cooperation was established with:
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Centres
for Social Welfare and Social Security in Skopje and Bitola
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NGO
community in Bitola and Skopje
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Local
authorities in Bitola and Skopje
Project
activities were and are running as planned.
Working
together with stakeholders youth trainers from the pool of
disadvantaged youth were identified and also several groups of
disadvantaged were formed. Groups were composed from diverse
scope of disadvantaged youth - youth from rural areas, displaced
youth, youth with long-time no-first employment, orphans. Youth
that was participating in this training was/is suffering social
exclusion and/or poverty and can not afford self-development
activities.
In Bulgaria
the main tasks were fulfilled during the second quarter of this
year-during the months April, May and June. The priorities were
aimed at unemployed youths, youths without parents and in a
difficult social position, as well as there was one group of 10
youths, graduating from secondary school from each of the three
orphanages in Plovdiv, Varna and Sofia.
The
coordinating role of our Foundation “Education, science and
culture” was realized over the joint work with the Employment
Agency, the job-centres in Sofia City, as well as with the
functional departments in the Ministry of education and the
Ministry of youth and sport. In this connection, yet in the
beginning of April was set up a coordinating body, an executive
coordination council and an expert management of outlined
activities.
The thematic
priorities were aimed at this category young people, who did not
have a financial opportunity up to now to contact with computer
equipment and who neither possess the skill to work with it nor
the conditions to use its capacities for information and social
adaptation. That’s why, as especially important fields of work
were outlined the following areas-primary computer literacy with
view to be utilized the Internet opportunities for job-finding,
enriching the forms of socialization and communication, looking
for new opportunities for self-education and increasing of own
qualifications.
The project
found the support of municipal structures in Plovdiv, Vidin,
Sofia, as well as among experts from the central departments and
especially from the participants in conducted courses and
seminars.
In Serbia
after detailed working plan and time scope for realization of
the project was developed, support of Serbian National Agency
for Employment was gained, as well as access to the database of
unemployment.
After
master
trainers for ToT were chosen, they went through training
delivered by selected trainer candidates from Belgrade.
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