NEWSLETTER No. 2

KNJAZEVAC

Author: NGO The Timok Club
 Cara Dusana 4, 19350 Knjazevac
  Tel/Fax: 381 19 730 002
E-mail: tim_klub@ptt.yu

 

CHOOSING THE BEST VOLUNTEER IN TIMOK REGION

Within the project “Timok volunteer programme”, supported by Freedom House, the Timok Club announced a competition for the best volunteer in Timok Region. The best volunteer candidates can be volunteers from organisations, institutions, local authorities, non-governmental sector,  as well as the individual volunteers acting in the territory of Timok Region.

The competition results will be revealed on 25 August 2002, and the prizes will be given at the official ceremony during the “Balkan NGO forum for cross-border cooperation” on 31 August in Soko Banja. The best volunteer prizes are: a weekend in Soko Banja for 2 people, a weekend on Babin Zub for 2 people, T-shirts with the best volunteer emblem, 10 one-day excursions….

For more information visit the WEB site www.timokvolonter.co.yu.

WITH STRATEGY INTO BETTER FUTURE

Supported by Freedom House, the Timok Club will be organising seminars titled “Strategic plans design for Timok Region municipalities”. The seminars will be held from 8 to 10 August 2002 in Donji Milanovac, and from 29 to 31 August 2002 in Soko Banja and will offer the possibility for each municipality to get its strategic plan and its presentation. The greatest part of the seminar will be devoted to the strategic plans design for each respective municipality with the assistance of consultants, as well as to the finalization of municipal strategic plans and preparation of their video, computer or graphic presentation, in the manner requested by each of the municipalities.

FORTHCOMING JOINT PROJECTS

The Business Centre Delegation from Vidin in Bulgaria has visited the Timok Club.

The visiting delegation consisted of Mrs Zivka Nikolova, Business Centre Director, Nina Nikolova, Secretary General for Vidin Region, and Tidor Cekov, a distinguished private entrepreneur from Belogracik, Bulgaria. The visit served as continuation of concrete discussions on the realisation of joint projects of Vidin Business Centre and the Timok Club in the domain of small and medium enterprises development in Knjazevac as well as in the transfer of positive experiences in this field from the Bulgarian partners for the past ten years.

FIRST TRAINING FOR THE ROMA FROM SOUTH-EAST SERBIA

Within the programme of supporting projects related to Roma NGO activity development and enhancement of Roma NGO competence necessary for gaining the right to education  within the Centre for Interactive Pedagogy and in cooperation with and the support of the Netherlands Embassy, The Roma Association of Yugoslavia has organised the seminar: “Roma NGO representatives training”, held on Babin Zub. The project goals are the Roma NGO representatives training, improved organisation and functioning of the Roma NGOs, training of the Roma NGO representatives to, above all, face the negative repercussions of their own inactivity coming out of their life quality and the relationship of their surroundings towards them and providing support in order to help them preserve their identity and elements of their tradition and culture.

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(C) EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE 2002