The main goals of AsGoodAsNew:Reduction of youth unemployment, Promotion of social inclusion for young people in social risk/social excluded by their economic empowerment& acquisition of skills for repair EEE(Electronic & Electric Equipment), Reduction of EEE waste, more efficient allocation of recycling materials, smart protection of environment, Trough repair& reuse of EEE citizens with low income get higher opportunities to acquire good quality EEE by marginal prices, ZERO transportation fees for donors& buyers of EE equipment and Average warranty period of ONE year for EEE purchased from our facilities.

The facts are: Quantities of EEE waste in Republic of Macedonia are in permanent rise, while the official waste managing system is still underdeveloped and disintegrated, Considerable portion of total amount of EEE waste could be repaired or reallocated with minimal cost& time, Current companies in EEE waste business are facing with lack of qualified personnel to efficiently reroute products into raw materials for recycling/reuse, Current unemployment rate in MK is 23.1%, while only 50% of youth population is employed. 76% of employed population receives salary under 20.000 MKD., To re-use or buy new? Almost all of the electric/electronic equipment (EEE) manufacturers claim that we should get rid of the old EEE and purchase new ones, with better energy class/energy efficiency.

But is that so? Re-use is incomparable better& cost-effective because there is no need for spending additional raw materials & energy for manufacturing, while substitution of EEE after 10 years since first purchase causes larger financial burden & negative environment impact.

“AvAv Happy Dog Center” is a project that will provide education and protection of  dog rights thru temporary homing and nurturing of homeless dogs and at the same time the business model will generate incomes thru creation of a doggy park for entertainments, doggy shops, hotel for dogs, day care and coffee shop for owners. In a separate area there is a  dog shelter center for homeless dogs, where you can adopt a rescue from the streets of Skopje.

Coterie produces original and one-of -a-kind garments from up cycled second hand clothes and textile waste. These products will be produced with the help from unemployed women, and later students (from vocational schools) who have the suitable knowledge and skill set to create the desired product, thus incorporate redesigned and modernized traditional Macedonian ornaments. Above all we offer lifetime guarantee for all of our products. Additionally, our customers will have a unique opportunity to make a social impact. By this we mean, for each bought piece of cloth from our brand our customer chooses, whether we will donate one garment to a socially disadvantaged person or plant a tree.

Association MISLA supports and advocates the rights of the persons suffering mental disorders in direction of recovering their health and inclusion in the societal interactions.

To accomplish its mission and goals, the association will organize World Mental Health campaign; form self-help groups, manage artists’ careers and organize events.

Our mission is to motivate the catering facilities and the people to return the lost value back onto food as something that should be eaten and not thrown away.  Food for everyone is platform that will allow you to get information and buy good food, that catering facilities could not sell during the day for a lower price (a price up to 80% lower of the regular).

GG or Grid from gym is an alternative gym which produces energy. This project includes help for a lot of families who don’t have enough incomes for paying their electricity bills. I’m introducing a gym place which is full with exercise machines that are specialized for producing energy. The equipment harnesses human energy and converts your work out to electricity. The produced energy will be given to the companies that are responsible for producing and distributing electricity and in return we don’t want money. What we want is a reduction on the electricity bills for the social families mentioned before. GG will have impact on the community by raising the awareness for helping others and by protecting the environment.

Little Devotion + Innovation = Impact on social level and on the environment.

Turn your calories into watts!

As a student enrolled at the Faculty of Philosophy, at the department of special education, I noticed that in Macedonia there is no speech therapeutic material in Macedonian, Albanian, Roma, Turkish and Vlach languages, which speech therapists use as a remedy for rehabilitating children with disabilities. These materials are now ordered from abroad, but their use is inadequate due to language. Our idea is to design and make prototypes in Macedonian and Albanian, and then in other languages. They would be produced in Macedonia. They will be of great benefit to both speech therapists and parents-co-workers.

The main goal of the Green Idea is to recycle the used cooking oil from households in order to protect the environment and run a sustainable business. When it comes to cooking oil waste, it usually goes into the sewerage system.  Cleanup of one liter of oil in sewage water costs 2.80 euros. Also 1 litter of used cooking oil contain energy equivalent for 4000 hours of phone usage or 160 hours of laptop use or 4 hours of using the oven. So throwing used cooking oil in is a waste of energy and money. Instead of throwing away the used cooking oil, the households will be able to collect it and put it in the machine for collecting used cooking oil and get coins as a gift. The machine contains a filter, where all that liquid (usually water) that is not a used cooking oil goes into a special waste canister, while the used cooking oil is stored in a separate canister.

Sozdadi.mk is the first regional E-commerce platform for Entrepreneurship Support in the Republic of Macedonia and in the same time an online marketplace for sale and promotion of charity-made products, who lets people from one side of the world, help those on the other side.

Our platform will provide safer environment for regional entrepreneurs, artisans, designers and artists, in which they will grow their small businesses, by selling and promoting their products, within their own online shop, without a participation fee.

Our vision is to promote social inclusion and fight poverty through self-employment, while expanding our impact around the world through a platform that makes sharing easier, with accent on socially marginalized people and single parents who have some creative hobby.

Sozdadi.mk

From idea to brand.

YouAreNotAlone is designed to serve as an online platform that will connect young people with professional psychologists and doctors in order to help them deal with their daily struggle. By this we are aiming to break the social stigma and discrimination around mental health in Macedonia.