Reaching Out Vulnerable Children in Macedonia

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Reaching out vulnerable children in Macedonia

1. Summary

International evidence relating to the gamut of child protection issues clearly demonstrates that

vulnerable children (especially poor and/or marginalized children from ethnic minorities and/or

households with limited resources) are more likely to suffer neglect, discrimination, abuse or

exploitation at the hands of service providers and others. Poor and marginalized children are also

more likely to be sexually exploited and abused, trafficked and/or employed in an unsafe or

otherwise exploitative environment. There are some mechanisms for support of the vulnerable

groups of children but they are not supported continuously by the state, they are not known to the

children and children do not know where to turn when they need help and someone to talk to.

In the period from 4th of July to 31st of January 2012 First Childrens Embassy in the World

Megjashi implemented the activities from the project Reaching out vulnerable children in

Macedonia supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) presented bythe Office for cooperation in Skopje. The main goal of the project is to contribute to the

improvement of life of vulnerable children by providing appropriate social, psychological and legal

support for them.

2. The situation with the rights of the vulnerable children

It is difficult to say that the situation of our main target group (vulnerable children) was improvedlast 7 months. It depends how we look over the things. If for example, we begin with a legislative,


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the institutions, the changes of the laws, conventions, than logically we will say that yes, there is an

improvement in respecting the children rights.

The First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi still is most worried that all these changes of thelaws last years are practically very little implemented in the way that is the most desirable. We have

identified implementation problems especially in the Laws for primary and secondary education

which are very important for the involvement of the vulnerable group of children into the

educational process. That happens for a several reasons, for example some of the law changes were

made without previously consulting the conditions for their implementation, that usually means

deficit of human or technical support of the state institutions which should implement these laws in

practice, not well and sufficiently educated people, isolated acting and lack of collaboration and

coordination on several levels as inadequate implementation. Macedonia can do much more with its

kids! We need more attention toward children and strategic actions for solving the bitter questions

that will not solve through night, but if we approach them comprehensively they will for sure have

an impact.

Braking of the children rights has its continuity and is from different character. Macedonia has 5-

6% of the total number of the children that are not going to school, 2000 street children, only 9-15%

(depends on the municipality) of the children are included in the preschool education, that is very

important for the vulnerable group of children.

We really hope that with this project we succeeded to improve the situation of the vulnerable

children helping them in different ways: advocacy and lobbying, education, direct services, SOS

helpline for children and youth and counselling, Free legal service, Daily Center for children who do

not attend school...

Results/ bigger accomplishments achieved in the reporting period

With the implementation of this project were achieved the following results:

Recruited 9 volunteers (psychologists, pedagogies, social workers) to work on the SOS helpline. The

services of the SOS helpline are provided every day 12 hours.

Annual report about the work of the SOS helpline for the period January - December 2011 is

prepared and presented on the press conference conducted in February 2012.

The First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi has reacted trough media about the monstrouscase of paedophilia and rape in Skopje. Childrens Embassy Megjashi is continuously fighting against


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paedophilia by requesting the highest punishment for the paedophiles, as well as collecting data for

the persons who have raped and abused children. Our organisation is deeply concerned that this

data is reported mostly from the marginalized and rural environment, which doesn't mean that it is

not present in the urban environment.

The National Commission on the Rights of the Child in Republic of Macedonia recommends to the

Ministry of Labour and Social Policies in the frame of its possibilities to provide continuous

functioning of the SOS toll free helpline for children and youth as a six digit European number 116

111, that is accessible from all mobile and landlines in Macedonia.

The Child Helpline International has sent letters for support to the President of the RM, the Prime

Minister of the Government of the RM, the General Secretary of the Government of the RM, the

Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, and the Agency for Electronic Communication to express the

support and to emphasize the importance of the harmonization of the SOS helpline with the

European number 116 111 and providing 24 hours free of charge work of the service.

Recruited 9 volunteers (psychologists, pedagogies, social workers) to work with the children in the

Daily Centre. The Day Care Centre works 5 hours every day.

The First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi was visited by Mrs. Emine Erdogan, wife of the

Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Mrs. Borkica Gruevska, wife

of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia Mr. Nikola Gruevski. They attended the creative

workshops for children where the children made origami and art work and presented them with

some of their handcrafts. Mrs. Gruevska donated TV and DVD equipment for the children who

attend the day care centre.

The training course for the representatives from the municipalities was conducted from 25th to 28th

of October 2011 in hotel Alpina, Mavrovo, on which participated 13 representatives from 12

municipalities, 2 trainers from the Childrens Embassy Megjashi, and 2 volunteers for technical

assistance.

Representatives from the First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi, during November,

December, and January have conducted presentations/ workshops in 20 municipalities in the

Republic of Macedonia (Bitola, Gostivar, Mavrovo and Rostusha, Vrapchishte, Debar, Tetovo,

Strumica, Ohrid, Kavadarci, Prilep, Veles, Shtip, Centar, Gjorche Petrov, Chair, Lozovo, Kumanovo,

Saraj, Karposh and Chashka), in order on the field to determine the problems and needs of the

vulnerable children. In each municipality we have discussed with the representatives of the Local

government, as well as with the professional staff as: social workers, pedagogues, psychologists,

special educators, education inspector, labour inspector, police officers for juvenile delinquency,

directors of the schools etc. Because the target group are vulnerable children in each municipality

were discussed the following questions:

- number of not registered children in the municipality

- children who are begging


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- number of foster families

- inclusion of the children in the education process

- existing or not existing of classes for the disabled children

- centres for children addicted

- the problems of child labour exploitation

An informal network of cooperation was established with municipal leaders in the range protection

of the vulnerable groups of children with opening of mailing list and link to the Facebook page of

Children's Embassy Megjashi

269 local community leaders are mobilized to dedicate more attention to the vulnerable groups of

children in their communities

To respond to vulnerable children in need of care and protection offering immediate help with

psycho-social and legal support

One of the most important mechanisms for support of vulnerable children is the SOS helpline and

counselling free legal service. The S.O.S helpline for children and youth functions almost 19 years

(since October 1993) and has registered more than 18 250 calls. The S.O.S phone line represents a

service for direct help and support of children, youth and their families. With only one call, children

may receive help and information, expert advice, psycho-social support or simply talk about the

problems they face with. The principle of working of the line is consisted of conversations with the

caller about their problems, so that our operators do not immediately give complete solutions of the

problem. It is talked about alternatives for solving the problem they have and the caller is helped to

find their own solution of it. On the free S.O.S helpline for children and youth, there are

professionals that work on: Pedagogue, psychologist, social worker and lawyer. In the activities there

are also volunteers involved, who are usually students at the Faculties of Pedagogy, Psychology, Law

studies, Social Work. Those people primarily conduct the conversations with callers and are always

in coordination and mentorship with the S.O.S helpline coordinator and the other services for direct

help in the First Children Embassy in the World Megjashi. In order to provide continuous work of this

service the First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi has implemented following activities:


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Every day 12 hours working of the SOS service by the trained volunteers

During the report period the First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi has prepared a semi-

annual report (for the period from January to July 2011) and an annual report about the work of the

SOS helpline (for the period January - December 2011). Both reports were presented on the press

conference conducted in August 2011 (semi-annual) and February 2012 (annual). During 2011 on the

SOS helpline are registered 235 reports concerning 477 children. The general conclusions of the

annual report are:

- not protected and exposed to violence within the family - 17.61%

- not protected and exposed to violence at the schools - 18.03%

- not protected and left from the institutions to fight alone - 18.03%

- 191 children are exposed on physical, mental and sexual violence, and neglect of children. They

are silent and endure violence. It is rarely reported because they are scared. Disappointed and

discouraged from those who should take care of them.

- Only 15 children have courage to raise their voice and ask help for protection of their rights.

On the Agenda of the 16th Session of the National Commission of the Rights of the Child conducted

on 01st of December 2011 was the information from the First Childrens Embassy in the World

Megjashi about the recommendation from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child from

Geneva for 24 hours toll-free SOS helpline for children and youth. The Executive Director and

Founder of Childrens Embassy Megjashi, Dragi Zmijanac presented the recommendation from the

Committee to the National Commission, and emphasized the importance of harmonization of the

SOS helpline with the European number 116111, as well as the written support of this initiative from

the Child Helpline International. The conclusion of the National Commission according to this issue

is: "The National Commission on the Rights of the Child in Republic of Macedonia recommends to

the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies in the frame of its possibilities to provide continuous

functioning of the SOS toll free helpline for children and youth as a six digit European number 116

111."


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Organizing direct and indirect contacts, written remarks to the Institutions for Social Work,

Psychology, Pedagogy, and other Post Secondary institutions for the informing the students of

volunteer opportunities

- Written remarks with call for volunteers are sent to the Institute of Social Work, Psychology,

Pedagogy, and Special Education. The students of those institutes were informed about the

possibilities listed in the remarks, and the remarks were announced on the informative boards.

- Recruited 9 volunteers (psychologists, pedagogies, social workers) to work on the SOS helpline.

- On the end of September and the beginning of October 2011 on occasion of the Childrens Week

the First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi were visited by 320 children from 12 schools.

With the children were conducted workshops on which they were acquainted with the work of First

Children Embassy in the World Megjashi, and the SOS helpline in particular, and learn more about

the childs rights.

Meetings with already existing SOS phone services for children

- Representatives from First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi attend the Regional

Conference for Professionals and Volunteers working on the Child Helpline in Montenegro. On the

Conference they presented the work and the achieved results of the SOS Helpline and the free legal

service. Also they share experiences and ideas with other Helpline providers from Serbia,

Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia.

- Letter for requesting support is sent to all members of the Child Helpline International to supportFirst Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi in the process of harmonization the SOS Helpline

with the European number 116 111, and providing 24 hours free of charge work of the service. The

process is supported by UNICEF and Child Helpline International (CHI).

The representatives from 4 members of CHI have sent a letter of support for the First Childrens

Embassy in the World Megjashi. The Child Helpline International has sent letters of support to the

President of the RM, the Prime Minister of the Government of the RM, the General Secretary of the

Government of the RM, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, and the Agency for ElectronicCommunication to express the support and to emphasize the importance of the harmonization of


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the SOS helpline with the European number 116 111 and providing 24 hours free of charge work of

the service.

- Dragi Zmijanac, the Executive Director and Founder, of the First Childrens Embassy in the WorldMegjashi attended IV Regional Consultation for Child Helpline in Athens. During the Conference the

members of CHI from the region discussed about the actual work of the help lines and the further

plans and possibilities for cooperation in order to improve the work and to make the help lines more

available for the target groups.

- The First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi and South Eastern Europe Centre for Missing

and Exploited Children (SEEC), managed by the Greek non governmental organization The smile of

the Child in the premises of the Childrens Embassy Megjashi had a meeting during which was

discussed about the possibilities of implementation of the number 116 000 for a helpline of missing

children in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as the possibilities for establishing Macedonian

National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children. During the meeting were also shared useful

experiences with the representatives from the NGO Open Gate La Strada and was discussed

about the possible collaboration.

- On 22nd of November in the premises of the First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi was

conducted a meeting with the representatives from other NGOs which also provide a helpline

service. On the meeting participated the representatives from the NGO Open Gate - La Strada and

the Association of Social Workers of Skopje. We have exchange experiences for the work of all

helpline and discussed about the challenges we face during the work as well as about the

possibilities of cooperation among each other.

General view of the objective 1

Despite our efforts to reach children, particularly the vulnerable groups of children and to raise thepercentage of calls by children, in 2011 to the SOS helpline addressed only 15 children. After the

project activities which included printing and distributing flyers, posters, calendars about the SOS

helpline for children and young people across all municipalities in Macedonia, it could be noticed a

slight increase in calls from children. From this it can be realized that the next goal will be to reach

the marginalized groups of children, which would be desirable to be through a direct contact with

them in order to directly inform them about where to refer for violation of their rights and would

increase their trust in the SOS helpline.


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Some of the calls that were recorded at the SOS helpline for children and young people were for the

vulnerable group of children; we have data on 89 children at social risk and calls for 21 children on

the street. The greatest percentage are for children who struggle with poverty and are forced by

their parents, guardians, or other organized groups to work from their earliest age and provide

material funds through collecting plastics, paper and scrap metal, and by begging as well. That is

approximately 1/3 of the total no. of call which is a concerning indicator of the state of the

vulnerable group of children and their treatment in the society.

Regarding the problem of begging, in 2011 there were calls to the SOS helpline reporting 14 children

which is why the SOS helpline for children and youth and the free legal service immediately and

separately for every case contacted and asked the relevant institutions like the Center for Social

Work and the Ministry of Labor and Social Politics to immediately act in the field and provide the

necessary care and protection to this vulnerable group of children. We believe that these activities

exceeded the expected results, the SOS helpline had good cooperation with the relevant institutions

and they urgently acted on the field; however, the disappointment is that the state hasnt found a

permanent solution for this vulnerable group of children and these activities were only a temporary

solution.

General view of the objective 2:

Through working with these children most targets have been achieved; the children socialize, have

gained hygienic habits, acquired habits of learning, respect the adults etc. Through the activities,

there are improvements in teaching the children about their fundamental rights and responsibility.

What was a step forward is that there was a direct contact with these families, their living conditions

and through the training in the municipalities we managed to raise the public awareness about the

condition of this marginalized group of children.The main current problem is that after the children

leave the Daily Centre they are left to the parents who do not pay enough attention and do not

educate them. The reason for this is the difficult financial and social situation of those families and

absence of a strict monitoring for responsible parenthood by the Centre for Social work. In

Macedonia 2 of the day care centers function in the frames of the civil organizations and their

existence is in question.

What we should have devoted more attention to is the direct work with parents through meetings

that will look for alternative solutions to this difficult situation of these children and families.

Objective 3: To link up with and strengthen local governments in addressing matters concerning

vulnerable children in their municipalities and to promote protection and advocacy for children in

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Children's rights and the rights of the vulnerable group of children are not on the top of the Political

parties' and the municipality's agenda

Preparation of the criteria for inclusion of municipalities in the project distribution of call and

contact with the Municipalities

In order to strengthen the cooperation among municipalities and centers for social work, schools,

NGOs in their territories, First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi has conducted several

activities with the municipal leaders in the field of child protection. In the activities have participated

20 municipalities selected by the following criteria.

The criteria include that the municipalities were involved in the project that First Childrens Embassy

in the World has already realized such as the International Campaign for Education "Global Action

week" aimed for raising awareness of the need for inclusion of all children in mandatory process of

education throughout the world, and the project "Building a culture of child participation" through

which children participated in the process of monitoring the implementation of their rights and

prepared its report on the situation of children in the Republic of Macedonia presented to the

Committee of the Rights of the Child in Geneva. Moreover, we believe it is important that the

municipalities within their work programs have adopted action plans to protect the rights of childrenand communities in the future plan to develop and implement local action plans to participate in the

project.

According to the criteria 20 municipalities were selected to participate in the three days training

course. Each municipality has delegate one representative who will participate in the training course

and the following activities.

The implementation of a three-days training course, for 13 people, prior to it will be observed the

criteria of joint and gender proportionality

The training course for the representatives from the municipalities was conducted from 25th to 28th

of October 2011 in hotel Alpina, Mavrovo, on which participated 13 representatives from 12

municipalities, 2 trainers from the Childrens Embassy Megjashi, and 2 volunteers for technical

assistance. Although, 20 municipalities were selected, the representatives from 7 municipalities

couldnt participate on the training because of other priority commitments, nonetheless they were

included in the execution of the workshops in the municipalities.


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On the beginning of the training the participants were introduced with the childrens rights, the

forms of its violation, and the responsibilities of the institutions for its protection. Also, the

participants have workshops for the childrens rights, so they could practice different ways of

protection, and could share their on experiences about handling different cases. During the training

was also discussed about the worst forms of childs labour and the role of the municipalities in the

decreasing the abuse ofthe childs labour. On the end, the representatives prepared action plans

for conducting a presentation/workshop for the Local government key representatives for childrens

issues which will help them to identify and treat the main problems of the vulnerable children in the

municipality.

Presentations/workshops with Local governments key representatives for childrens issues, regular

meetings with the municipalities

Representatives from the First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi, during November,

December, and January have conducted presentations/ workshops in 20 municipalities in the

Republic of Macedonia (Bitola, Gostivar, Mavrovo and Rostusha, Vrapchishte, Debar, Tetovo,

Strumica, Ohrid, Kavadarci, Prilep, Veles, Shtip, Centar, Gjorche Petrov, Chair, Lozovo, Kumanovo,

Saraj, Karposh and Chashka), in order on the field to determine the problems and needs of the

vulnerable children. In each municipality we have discussed with the representatives of the Local

government, as well as with the professional staff as: social workers, pedagogues, psychologists,

special educators, education inspector, labour inspector, directors of the schools etc. Because the

target group are vulnerable children in each municipality were discussed the following questions:

- number of not registered children in the municipality

- children who are begging

- number of foster families

- inclusion of the children in the education process

- existing or not existing of classes for the disabled children


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- centres for children addicted etc.

From each presentation/ workshop is prepared report with detailed explanation of the situation

with the vulnerable children in the municipality.

From the analysis of the information gained from the municipalities are derived the following

conclusions:

- The problem with not registered children is very serious and causes violation of many other rights

of the children. The municipalities should undertake some measures and to increase the

collaboration among the institution in order to overcome the problem.

- The problem with the children beggars is present in many municipalities. Even though they are

making some efforts to help them it is important to continue with it because they are present on the

streets very often.

- The municipalities emphasized the need of existing centres for rehabilitation of children addicted

to alcohol and drugs. Some of them have opened such centres, but need support from the State tocontinue with the work.

- According to the inclusion of the children in the educational system most of the municipalities have

agreed about several conditions that are important for increasing the number of children who are

going to school. All the school should have a social worker who will be the link among the children,

parents, and the institutions. Also the preschool education is essential for the vulnerable groups of

children, in order to prevent them of going to streets and start the addicts in the early childhood.

Regarding the conditional cash compensation the representatives from the municipalities

considered that it should be provided for the students from primary education as well, in order to

motivate them to achieve better results. Also the developing of the intensive programs will help the

children who miss to start the education process on time to continue with the studying. The work

with parents is also important step for increasing the number of the students who are attending

schools.

- For the children with disabilities according to the information from the municipalities, it is

important if there are classes and Day Care Centres for them, but the categorization of the children

should be under a strict monitoring to avoid any kind of abuse of the children. Also the secondaryeducation for the children with disabilities is problem, because it is provided only in Skopje.


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- The number of the foster families in Macedonia is very low, and they are rarely interested to take

children with disabilities. The foster families need appropriate trainings and education to care for

children, especially those with special needs. Also they need a financial support from the State to

help them to take care of the children.

- In the procedures for adoption are needed changes which will allow the potential parents to spend

more time with the children and to develop stronger emotional relations.

General view of the objective 3

During the training and the workshops in the previously stated municipalities, representatives from

the municipalities and the other professionals that attended stressed that this kind of cooperation

with the NGO sector is quite useful and welcomed. With some of the municipalities we managed to

identify important issues that we might solve together and to be their partners in programs and

activities that are aimed at the vulnerable group of children.

During all workshops, notes were recorded about the discussion that was provided and the

children's rights that are not respected were addressed, the causes for it, recommendations on howto overcome them and the major problems that municipalities face in their daily work in

implementation of their competence in the field of protection of marginalized groups of children.

Afterwards, a final report was prepared in which the data obtained was summarized. The report is

structured in a way that it does not only identify the violations of the rights of the children, but it

also provides recommendations to overcome them.

It is particularly important to address that throughout this cooperation with the municipalities, the

First Childrens Embassy in the World - Megjashi also provided monitoring to the rights of children inMacedonia and the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Children and the

concluding observations of United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Children that were sent

to the Government of Macedonia in June 2010.

The identified condition, the obtained data and recommendations are already listed in the draft

version of the Alternative Report for the situation of childrens rights in Macedonia, which is

scheduled to be published and presented to the public during March 2012. It is particularly

significant that the data that came from the municipalities provide a picture of the situation with the

childrens rights at the local level and in different regions of the country.


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For this planned purpose it can be concluded that the activities provided had great support from the

municipalities

Objective 4: To promote the protection of vulnerable children and their rights for articulating their

needs

First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi has implemented set of activities aimed to raise

awareness for children rights and the existences of support structures for children in need among

children, parents, local communities leaders, teachers and media.

Creation, design and distribution of the printed materials (posters, leaflets, inserters, t-shirts,

calendars, bookmarkers)

During the reporting period First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi has designed and

created promoting materials for the municipalities. Printed materials (posters, leaflets, calendars

and bookmarkers) were distributed to all municipalities in Republic of Macedonia. The Local

governments distributed the materials according to the number of primary schools in the

municipality.

During the project implementation, FCEWM has constantly developed and executed various

activities to promote rights of the vulnerable children. This was conducted through printed

materials, media, lobbying and running of the campaign. The main purpose of informing on

childrens rights is to increase the public awareness of the citizens about the need of a more efficient

protection of vulnerable children and youth in the Republic of Macedonia. Through the media,

Children's Embassy Megjashi constantly makes and puts in the forefront of respecting marginalized

children's rights. Also we received the interest and support from the citizens and othernongovernmental organizations who were informed about the activities by the media.

1. Municipality Karpos

http://www.karpos.gov.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1473%3A2012-02-02-

07-21-45&catid=3%3Avesti&Itemid=112


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http://www.lokalno.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4677%3A2012-02-02-09-

41-45&catid=106%3A2011-11-27-13-00-05&Itemid=131&lang=sq

2. Municipality Stip

http://www.stip.gov.mk/index.php/mk/nastani/1529-rabotilnica-izvestuvanje-na-ranlivi-grupi

http://stip.gov.mk/index.php/mk/soopstenija/1520-2011-11-18-15-10-45

http://www.facebook.com/notes/first-childrens-embassy-in-the-world-megjashi-republic-of-macedonia/a-workshop-held-for-the-journalists-for-the-way-of-reporting-the-vulnerable-

grou/326689917372469

http://www.stip.gov.mk/index.php/en/events/1529-rabotilnica-izvestuvanje-na-ranlivi-grupi

3. Municipality Ohrid

http://www.ohridsky.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1617%3A2011-12-15-

15-10-41&catid=36%3A2011-04-02-23-32-52&Itemid=119

http://www.ohrid.gov.mk/index.asp?PodatociID=2317

4. Municipality Veles

http://www.veles.gov.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1901%3A2011-12-13-

14-25-03&catid=17&Itemid=198

http://www.veles.gov.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1901%3A2011-12-13-

14-25-03&catid=17


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5. Municipality Tetovo

http://www.tetova.gov.mk/mk/press/666.html

http://www.tetova.gov.mk/en/press/666.html

http://www.tetova.gov.mk/al/press/666.html

6. Municipality Strumica

http://www.strumica.gov.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=968%3A2011-11-

29-12-04-50&catid=207%3A--2011&Itemid=1&lang=mk

http://www.strumica.gov.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=968%3A2011-11-

29-12-04-50&catid=34%3A2010-09-02-08-37-56&Itemid=53&lang=en

7. Municipality Debar

http://www.dibra.us/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2705%3Adiber-puntori-per-

te-drejtat-e-femijeve&catid=106%3Alajme-nga-dibra&Itemid=567

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=269484089760291

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.240507152672045.62629.100001382871995&type=3

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.215657271833557.50356.122833937782558&type=3

http://www.facebook.com/notes/first-childrens-embassy-in-the-world-megjashi-republic-of-

macedonia/support-on-vulnerable-groups-of-children-in-macedonia/268409656533829


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The First Childrens Embassy in the World Megjashi has continuous good cooperation with the most

of the media in Macedonia. Usually the media are interested about the situation with the violence of

the childrens rights, and the ways that the SOS helpline handle different cases.

A lot of information connected with the children's rights, presentations at the workshops in

municipalities are posted at the web site and the facebook of the Children' Embassy Megjashi. More

materials can be downloaded from:

the web-site: www.childrensembassy.org.mk,

FB:http://www.facebook.com/pages/First-Childrens-Embassy-in-the-World-Megjashi-Republic-

of-Macedonia/12283393778255

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