On the 3rd of May, (Thursday) this year we celebrated solemn the 15th anniversary of our work. The celebration was in the beautiful space of the Drama Theatre.

Global campaign for Education is activity which we are implementing every year starting from 1990. This action is coordinated by Global March Against Child Labor on an international level, while National Coordinator in our country is the First Children Embassy in the World – Megjashi.

The activities for creating ”Guide for volunteerism” are coming to an end. The preparation for this brochure went through several stages, in which outside associates and focus group (volunteers and students) were included as well as part of the team of the Children’s Embassy.

In the period 30-31 March this year the third regional fair was held in Debar and also the fourth regional fair in Negotino from 14 to 15 June 2007, implemented by the Open Society Institute-Macedonia (OSIM) and the Support Center for NGO’s-Debar, within the Civil Platform of Macedonia.

Children’s Embassy started with IT workshops for the children – members of the Children’s Embassy that most of the times are children to social effected families. With the free workshops for 50 children (several groups) IT information’s were provided and available.

As a continuation of the recent activities in our organization with multiethnic clubs in 5 high schools (SHS “Nikola Karev”, SHS “Cvetan Dimov”and SMHS “D-r Panche Karagjozov” from Skopje, SMHS “Nokola Shtein” from Tetovo and SHS “Nace Bugjoni” from Kumanovo), we organized a trending on the theme “Facing with past” from 16-18th of February 2007 in hotel “Klimetica-Ohrid, designed for high school students motivated to include themselves in activities for peace building, human rights protection, gender equality, joining different ethnic groups as well as enhancing the mutual understanding and trust.

 In the period 5-30 March 2007, MSc. Dragi Zmijanac, founder and executive director of the First Children’s Embassy in the World-Megjashi, visited Brussels through BNT Program and financed by the MCIC (Macedonian Center for International Cooperation) and the ECAS (European Citizen Action Service).

Training in our partner organization the Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children - ISPCC, from Dublin, Ireland

In order to raise funds in support to our program activities, we organized and also took part at the following events:

On 27, April, 2007 The First Children’s Embassy in the World - Megjashi and the mobile operator Cosmofon, signed an agreement for partnership.

Together with the spring in the Children’s Workshops new flowers have sprouted. Two new workshops started working: French Language Workshop and a new workshop with a very interesting name Literacy-dramatic-bon-ton.

The Ramstor mall, on the second and third July, organized a summer weekend festival to celebrate its’ birthday.
Our workshops infront of Ramstore

The street children in Republic of Macedonia are from all ages and nationalities, but the most -58%, are Roma. Also concerning is the fact that: 15,5% of the street children are of a pre-school age, 64% are from 7 to 14 years old, 88, 5 % manifest socially unacceptable behaviour, while 11, 5% have tolerable social behaviour (according to the Institution for Social Matters in Skopje).

 

On the 18th of January 2007, The Broadcasting Standards Council in cooperation with Rotary Club-“Stone Bridge” and The First Children’s Embassy in the World-Megjashi organized tribune on the following theme-“Protection of the juvenile television audience from programs that have negative effects to their psycho-physical development”.

Help appeal for three persons

From 3rd till 6th of May we had a visit from our ambasador in Italy H.E. Antonio Diletto.  He constantly visits and supports financialy our embassy since 1998.