Bitola is with over 80 000 people, the second largest city of Macedonia. It is University city with several faculties and has great student population. The river Dragor streams right in the middle of the town and the divides the old Turkish town from the 18th century town. The latter managed to maintain its beautiful 18th- amd 19th-century architecture. In the other part of town you will find nice Ottoman architecture in the form of mosques, covered markets and bath houses.
The main street of Bitola hosts a lot of opportunities to go out at night, to eat the local food and to watch the locals doing their daily activities. In summer there are a lot of cultural festivals which host music and art. Above all, the multicultural city shows you a taste of orthodox, moslim and roma tradition.
Thirty minutes walk southly is the impressive site of the ancient city of Heraclea Lyncestis. It was established in the 4th century BC, and has an excavated amphitheatre, baths, basilicas and some impressive mosaics. The area is an object of religious tourism, also: The church St. Dimitrija, St maru, Monastir St Jova Bigorski end many others.
Bitola lays in the valley of the biggest mountain of Macedonia: Pelister. This old national park is a nice place to get away from all the fuss and to relax in a natural atmosphere. In summer a lot of people go there to cool down from the hot temperatures in the valley and in winter a lot of people go there to ski and to enjoy the many nice resorts up mountain. The rare glacial mountain lakes are very unique and wonderful to see. For the adventurous types hiking is no problem. There are a lot of good trails that have bungalows along the way.
Up to 70 km far from Bitola there are two lakes: Prespa and Ohrid with beautiful landscapes, historical monuments and opportunities for swimming in the cool, clear water.
The Greek border is 15 km far from the town and offers other various attractions during the weekend time.

The office of Felix is in the centre of Bitola. We arrange for our volunteers the accommodation in the central area,usually. That makes them involved in the social life, meet lot of people, be closer to the office and be more flexible to travel by bus or train.
The volunteer will share the apartment in the city and has to cook his/her own meals. The volunteer will dispose of a single room, while bathroom and kitchen are in common. They will not live in a community and they will have only to respect the current rules established by the flat and based on the common way of living together.
The language classes will be given in a private school in the town. We can recommend the teacher, but the volunteer can shoes the teacher by him/ herself, also. The volunteer will always have a representative person from the organization and the tutor who can be person from, but also outside the organization. The tutor and the organizational contact person will meet monthly in order to understand the project activities feed-back. These meeting will give permit to comprehend if the volunteer likes the activities, if there are any special needs or requests from the volunteer and to cope with potential problems.

The volunteer will have a possibility to work in our three programs, and we offer four positions:

1. Publishing the street paper Ulica.
The volunteer will work within the street paper Program. It is built to be long term program. His/her co-operators will be the staff and other people who are involved in the activities.
This is a social program, tackling unemployment and poverty in R. Macedonia.
We are part of the international program of street-papers INSP. (www.street-papers.com)

2. Running vocational training group.
This pilot project will be supported by King Gustav Vth foundation starting in octobre 2007 uptill April 2008. These trainings will be attended by 8 to 10 unemployed people and social welfare users from 18 to 35 years old on qualification or prequalification of new skills.
- The volunteer who will work with the group will be responsible to monitor them on their attendance and how they advance. He/she will be the contact person with the Labour University. Above that the writing of the reports will be his/her responsibility.
- The volunteer will be the contact person between the agency of employment and the business sector and to help them to find or create a new job.
- There is also possibility for the volunteer to be involved in the making of an analysis of the working capacities and power of the region. This can be his/her own research for school if interested.
- Be involved in the fundraising activities, by writing letters, searching the internet…

3. Running the Youth Fire Brigade Volunteers club.
The volunteer will work within the leadership program and will run the the volunteers activities in this club. The youngsters are teenagers and adults between 16 and 25. His/her co-operators will be the office staff and volunteers and other people who are involved in the activities.
This is a leadership program that makes youngsters able to participate in society.

4. Leadership and democracy program
The volunteer will work within the leadership and democracy project activities.
The project is funded by Olof Palme Centre in Sweden through our partnership organisation Unga Ornar. This is ongoing, but we want to achieve to make it a long-term project. Volunteers from an EU-country are very welcome to bring us their democracy knowledge and experience. His/her co-operators will be the staff and other people who are involved in the activities.


Apart these activities we are suggesting as general, but not obligatory for the volunteer another extends engagement. Those can take 30 % of the day work of the volunteer.
1.upgrade of the web page;
2.English classes for the interested target group;
3.help in writing and development of suggested projects;
4.search on the internet;
5.support in the implementation on other programs who are conducted by the Felix Group;
6.represent Felix in seminars and meetings with other NGO's and institutions who are working in similar projects.
7.including in the activities for finding new funds, as contribution for continues activities of the NGO.
8. All our volunteers are involved in the current activities but are given the space for their own initiatives according to their capacities and to run project activities.
Through the activities mentioned above, the volunteer will improve and upgrade the knowledge off:
9. The volunteer will take part to the staff organisational meetings.

Through the all activities mentioned above, the volunteer will improve and upgrade the knowledge off:
1. Fundraising
2. Writing Projects
3. Presentation
4. Communication
5. intercultural competences
6. transfer knowledge
7. improving speaking and writing Macedonian language
8. Mediator ship
9. Tim working