On Friday the 19th of April youth volunteers of NGO Our action organized a humanitarian musical evening for baby Melek on the main square in Podgorica. Leading the organization of this event was logistics manager Jana Raicevic. 754 Euros was collected for the child, as it needs immediate surgery/transplantation in Italy since she was born without some vital organs. More activities will be organized in other towns and at high schools all across Montenegro. Donations can also be me made ono their bank account 510 170 496 245 000 944 in the name of Enver Agusevski. Thank you to all who helped in the organization and donated for this baby.

Volunteers of NGO Our action visited the Retirement home in Bijelo polje on Saturday, March 23rd and spend the day with the senior citizens of the home. This is our yearly traditional visit to the home and it is a true pleasure for the residence as well as our volunteers to spend time together talking, laughing and reminising. NGO Our action signed a agreement of cooperation with the home already in 2017 and this way we are also getting people from Kotor and Bijelo Polje together. The agreement focuses on a better environment and living conditions for retirees which is something in prevous years we work on together by cleaning and planting the area around the home.

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On Sunday, the 17th of March we joined our friends from the NGO Friends of Gorica and offered volunteer support in the Mediterranean garden in Podgorica. Spring garden readiness, planting and cleaning was done by all. We were joined by NGO Nase doba and had a wonderful musical program in the garden to enjoy by working.

Upon recommendation NGO Our action was called upon to support the Beo Art Theater while they performed in Podgorica and Budva. Besides volunteering at the festival, we provided guide/host services to our guest and with this had a chance to meet the performers and crew, as well as watch the theater pieces. Thank you for calling on us. It was a pleasure to assist in your visit to our country.

Today we supported NGO Friends of Gorica and NGO Nase doba in the clean-up and planting activities done every spring in the community Mediterranean garden. Additionally fallen trees and other debris was cleaned up from Zone A. Following the work we had a chance to a flash mob and entertain passersby with some music and dancing.

On Saturday, February 3rd NGO Our action joined by volunteers from the mountaineering club “Vjeverice” and Montenegro + company organized the ecological clean-up action and cleaning of the roads to Troice, in the municipality of Kotor and Tivat. The stretches of road that where cleaned are:

1. Road from Jugodrvo to Troica,

2. Road from the Kotor/Tivat/Budva circle to the tunnel

3. Road from Troice to the dug up road to Gradiosnica

4. Road from Troica to Kotor This action was initiated by a wonderful gentlemen Sergej Gron who lives in Kavac and who is one of the wonderful foreigners that have move to our country and are aware of our environmental issues especially in the UNESCO protected Bay of Kotor.

Additionally the Montenegro + volunteers where foreign national as well. We collected around 18 m3 of waste from this area mainly plastic bags and plastic bottles that so much accumulate in our countryside

On Monday, September 24, at the Petrovic palace in Krusevac, an exhibition “Eco Colony 2018” was officially opened in Podgorica. The exhibition was opened by Edin Koljenovic, Head of the Regional Office for Youth Cooperation RYCO for Montenegro, Srdan Kosovic, the new editor-in-chief of “Vijesti” and representatives of partner organizations Lucija Dumancic from the Association Eko ZH, BiH and Patricia Pobric, director of the NGO Our action. The exhibition was created within the framework of the project “Eco-colony 2018” financed by the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO). Regional Office for Youth Cooperation. In the figurative part of the project that took place in June in Blidinje nature park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, young people from 4 countries of the region participated and 80 works were created, out of which 35 were exhibited in the Petrovic palace. The project aims to provide young people with opportunities for intercultural learning and skills development, as well as establishing intercultural dialogue and tolerance in order to reduce hate speech, negative stereotypes in society and prejudices among young people in the region. At the end of the exhibition, the sale of works through the auction is planned and the funds will be donated to children with disabilities. Partners in the Eco ZH Association for Development, Environment and Culture and NGOs Our actions invite you to enjoy the artwork of young people. The gallery is open every day from 8 am to 8 pm until September 28. #youth #RYCO #NVONasaakcija #EkoZH #Ekokolonija2018

Young members of NGO Our action gave their hand in assistance to the 7. Boka bay triathlon on Sunday, 2. September. They traveled from 4 cities in Montenegro to Perast give their support to our friends form the Triathlon club Kotor. Big thanks to all the great volunteers and your enthusiasm