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LoFT at CIVICUS Youth and World Assembly
It is so hard to adjust to these 37 C here in Skopje, from the 12 C in Glasgow. This is one of the things that we miss about Glasgow together with the fact of being the biggest national delegation at a world wide conference.
Anyhow, CIVUCUS youth and CIVICUS world assembly were our occupation from 16 – 21 June in Glasgow. We got the great opportunity as part of the Leap of Faith Together project to participate and talk about world issues that are shaking the world stage, and deserve so much attention.
The event addressed the question of people, participation and power as three main pillars of discussion and debate, space for sharing experiences and knowledge.
From 16 – 18 June we attended the youth assembly were more than 200 delegates from more then 75 countries in the world participated in the conference through different methods as a way of exploring the questions of health, poverty, equality and climate change. This was only a warm up for the main event, the world assembly. There, the number of delegates and countries participating has doubled. Participants with diverse backgrounds, representing organisations that work on local, national and international level combined with people that represent governments and corporations, was a perfect ground for a very fruitful discussions.
All four LoFT teams finally got the chance to meet each other and share the implementation and the idea behind LoFT to the rest of the participants. We even got the chance to present LoFT to one of the equality sessions, which resulted as putting the focus on our project at the closing ceremony of the youth assembly. We did a great job there guys.
Hereby I would like once more to officially thank the British Council for giving us this opportunity.
Photo and video coverage will follow very soon. By then here is a picture with the LoFT members (present at the conference) together with a well known worldwide activist and political figure Mary Robinson. In addition I put a video that was shown at the conference, and serve as way to think how we can change societies. Enjoy 
Teambuilding session
We’ve got our first team building session. It was sooo fun. I must say that it wasn’t a regular team building using name game techniques, icebreakers etc. It was I would say innovative one, using camera and media. Hmmm sound strange ha? Well we’ve got the pleasure of having the creative cre8ive8 beings (believe me I know what I’m writing) http://www.cre8ive8.blogspot.com/.
Ok we’ve got the animal game as an icebreaker, but have to admit it was so fun making sounds of a cow, or a frog. Hmmm .Anyhow our next task was thinking for toothpaste commercial. OMG here comes the funny part. Group No1 draw BIIIP. The other group made a very creative scenario, end of story, you can use your wild imagination to guess what was the first one. And finally, remember when you’re teachers are saying put the theory into practice, weeeell walaa, meet the LoFT Macedonia team J
LoFT Macedonia first meeting
We had our very first meeting last week. It was awesome (haha love the word). Anyhow two hours seemed to be a very short time for the energy that was floating around . The meeting started with some very warm welcoming words from Elizabeta Jovanovska (British Council Macedonia) and afterwards the speed dating game raised the temperature, followed by two other interactive ice-breakers. Finally we got to the more serious part, the hopes and fears. I can say that a very objective and realistic views were given. But let’s concentrate on the hopes now . If you want to see some pictures from the meeting, just click on some of the photos on the sidebar.
Andreja Bogdanovski
Project coordinator
LoFT Macedonia
LoFT team in Macedonia
The members of the LoFT project in Macedonia have been selected through a process of application and an interview, following the principles of diversity and active citizenship. All of the team members are aged 20 – 25.
The team members are:
Besa Jasarevic
Ivanco Gjeorgjev
Elena Nikolovska
Elena Vilarova
Nenad Incevski
Flanza Grubi
Stevica Levajkovski
