NGO SFERA MACEDONIA

SFERA MACEDONIA – Bitola is a NGO from Bitola, Macedonia which was first formed in 2007 like a informal group and in July 2009 it was registered as a NGO. The general goal of SFERA MACEDONIA – Bitola is through non formal methods to educate the population in Macedonia about the protection of the environment, cultural and natural heritage, with the purpose to raise the awareness of all age groups about the importance of healthy lifestyle and the benefits that come with it. We have worked on different types of project in the past such as: Tackling the problems of poverty and unemployment; Developing leadership skills and democracy among youth; Fire and environmental protection and education; Organizing trainnings, Workshops and camps on a national and international level; Networking with national and international organizations and networks. These are regular activities in the organization. According to the Statute changes from March 2015 the Association has these main goals and objectives: Protection of the environment, cultural and natural heritage; Promoting sustainable development and the usage of alternative sources of energy; Promoting healthy lifestyle – sport, healthy diet; Development of professional and leadership skills among young people; Education of youngsters in the field of crisis management (floods, earthquakes, fires, erosion and other natural disasters); Promoting non formal education and encouraging the creation of systems to support young local, national and international level; Promoting youth activism and active citizenship among young people and informing youth about all the opportunities they have; Raising the awareness of equality, tolerance, democracy and the introduction of human rights to the youngsters; Support and facilitate the process of Europeanization of the country. We will focus our work in the future to achieve all of these goals on a national, but also on an international level We first started working in the program Youth in Action because we found some common project topics like environment and sport, art and culture, national heritage, health etc. Now we work even harder in the Erasmus + program because we feel it is a way to achieve our goals on an international level, and we feel that we will have a bigger impact on our community from these projects. We count 107 members in the organization with different profiles and ages, high-school youngsters, students from different universities, mostly from Economical Faculty, and graduated bachelor and master students in different areas.