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Digital Education Club 2025: Strengthening Digital Skills and Community Engagement
The Youth Center in Bitola continues to actively fulfill its mission of preparing young people for the digital future, offering them free access to HP’s online educational platforms. Throughout the year, the YMCA continuously implemented HP LIFE courses, enabling young people to acquire basic digital competencies and practical knowledge in business, marketing, communications, entrepreneurship, etc. These regular activities were a continuation of the foundation laid in 2023 and 2024, when several hundred participants completed HP LIFE sessions and received certificates on various topics, from digital marketing to entrepreneurship.
While this year’s total number of young people included in the program was slightly lower (300+ participants), our community reach and engagement efforts intensified, especially in the last quarter of the year, as you can read below.
See below the photo gallery from the digital education sessions of the club in 2025.
Expanding Our Community Footprint
To make digital learning more visible and accessible beyond the Youth Center, we launched offline promotion campaigns in secondary schools across Bitola. Teams of young volunteers went into classrooms and school events to share stories and encourage classmates to join the digital education courses.
We also took part in major local events — including the Volunteer Fair and the University Hackathon — where we met students face-to-face and offered on-the-spot registrations.
This grassroots outreach helped us connect with young people who might not have seen the program online, and deepened YMCA’s presence as a trusted partner in youth learning and development throughout the city.
See below the photo gallery from all the campaigning with HP life courses across the city.
