North Macedonia

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The Fund for Innovation and Technological Development in cooperation with MoLSP organized a Call for Financing Social Entrepreneurship Projects titled "A Challenge for Innovative Solutions to provide #MealsforAll". The purpose of this challenge was to identify a systematic and sustainable food security solution for homeless people and families in need. The winner of the challenge was the association "Let's do it North Macedonia". This association has built a national network called "Everyone Fed", consisting of CSOs businesses and volunteers who work together to save food surpluses and provide them to people in need. As part of this project, a model for food surplus redistribution was established for vulnerable people in Skopje, Kumanovo and Prilep. Volunteers distributed hot meals twice a week to people lacking mobility and the elderly. The project has contributed to strengthening social cohesion and generating social value, with the community benefiting from entrepreneurial activities. From April 2018 to April 2020, "Everyone Fed" provided more than 550,000 meals. Instead of being thrown away, this food was turned into tasty meals for more than 10,000 people in need of social support.

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In North Macedonia, UNICEF launched the Youth Challenge and asked for solutions on how to stop violence against and among children and young people. In April 2019, five global winners were announced and included team “Andrometa” from North Macedonia with their solution “Speak Out” –a mobile app that creates a community in support of victims of bullying. The team received expert mentorship from Generation Unlimited partners and $20,000 in seed funding to scale up their initiative. The app has become a safe online space for expression, where young people can anonymously seek peer-to-peer support from trained volunteers.