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Happy New Year

The New Year’s euphoria has begun. Slowly, but surely, we surrender to the New Year’s wishes, greetings, plans for the days off during the holiday…

However, in the month when we prepare to welcome the new year and for which we always hope to be better than the previous one, it’s usual to have an overview. It’s time to look back.

What did we do in 2004? The sceptics would say “not much”, and the other ones would surely say we did “a lot”. The truth, as  always, is somewhere in between.

When we evaluate what we did, it’s very important to be  honest. Let’s look at the results, let’s see the differences between what we planned and what really happened. The best way to test our honesty is to ask the users for their opinion about what we did.

The view backwards should be in the function of the view forwards. Summing the results should help us make our plans for the next year.  Not any plans, but much more realistic plans that will show us our possibilities which will work in favour of the needs of our users.

Now, let me say a few words for the biggest event in December, NGO Fair - 4th Forum of the civil society. 244 civil organizations came to Skopje Fair to show what they have done and to talk about what they are going to do. Almost 10,000 visitors came to see what the civil organizations have done. All this made the NGO Fair the biggest event in the civil society this year. And not only that. The increased interest of the participants and the visitors not only for the exhibition part, but also for the forum part, assumes that all of us use this open forum more and more  to talk, consult, discover something new, confirm what we already know.

But it doesn’t depend on Santa Claus whether the wishes that we made at the New Year’s Eve will be fulfilled, it depends on us. We will need new energy for the new challenges, therefore during the holidays relax and rest, fill your “batteries”, and then, then I hope we will solve more easily all the open issues and problems.

Happy New 2005 Year!

 

Gonce Jakovleska