A visit of our volunteers to the "H.T.Karpoš"
youth field unit in Skopje
From 12th to 14th May 2006, after years of
silence, GOCK Nis volunteers have visited
their friends-volunteers in former Yugoslavian
Republic of Macedonia. The reason for this
visit was the attending the 19. Annual meeting
of the “Hristijan Todorovski Karpos” youth
field unit of the “Karpos” Red Cross municipality
in Skopje. Together with the volunteers from
Nis, at this year annual meeting, the volunteers
representing youth field units from Gornji
Milanovac and Belgrade municipalities: Palilula,
Stari Grad and Novi Beograd participated also.
All the guests arrived in Skopje on Friday,
12th of May, met their hosts who had a welcome-party
organized for them.
The next
day, in the morning hours, after just a few
hours of sleep, the visitors got the chance
to see the city of Skopje, which is just as
beautiful as the great cities of Europe.
In the afternoon hours, at 18.00 hours the 19th
Annual meeting began.
The meeting
took place at the facilities of the Republic
of Macedonia Red cross. The program of this
meeting included the election of the members
for the governing body of the “Hristijan Todorovski
Karpos” youth field unit, where the present
members were trusted with the running the unit
for the mandatory period of the year 2006-2008.
The members of the governing body filed the
report of the unit activities for the year 2005/2006
and they represented activities planned to be
realized in the years of 2006-2008.
. This was also an opportunity to award membership
cards to the new members-volunteers of the youth
field unit and to officially welcome them to
the unit. The participants of the meeting also
got familiar with the suggestion of the “H.T.
Karpos” to form the “Emergency Interventions”
team and they discussed the working experiences
oh the other Red Cross youth field units and
shared some ideas for the future activities.
The meeting was officially ended by the president
of the “H. T. Karpos” Goran Petkovski who thanked
the participants and the representatives of
the Macedonian Red cross.
A fare-well party was thrown for the guests
in the evening. Once again, the hosts showed
their warmth and endless hospitality.
The last day of this event, the “H.T.Karpos”
volunteers said Goodbye and wished a good trip
to their Serbian guests. Our volunteers brought
very strong impressions from Skopje home with
them. They are very grateful and honored for
the opportunity to visit “Hristijan Todorovski
Karpos” youth field unit, to make some extraordinary
new friendships and to have such a good time
in Skopje. We are looking forward to a new gathering,
hoping that next time, we will be the hosts
and that we will be able to welcome our Macedonian
friends as well as they did us.