SUNA (Skopje United Nations Association) Promoting the UN values in Macedonia   SUNA (Skopje United Nations Association) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization registered in 2000, which started its activities at non-formal meetings between its members back in 1998. The organizations’ mission is to promote the values established by the UN in Macedonia by organizing informative and educational meetings, seminars and conferences and producing printed materials, etc. SUNA tends to achieve its goals by means of strengthening the civil society capacities, promoting the citizens’ participation in the social problems, cooperation and animating the local resources in solving the local problems on community level. In September 2004, the organization became an associate member of the World Federation of UN Associations as a representative from Macedonia. SUNA focuses on the education and the activities for developing the underprivileged, the marginalized and the young people. In January 2005 it became a member of the International Network for Support, created by the Greek development NGO – European Perspective, and the same year in March it became part of the project called “Building civil society capacities in Serbia, Kosovo and Macedonia, that will go on until June this year. The project is financed by the CARDS programme for the civil society regional development, together with the Institute for Sociologic and Political – Legal Researches from Skopje. The project’s goal is building and raising the accountability and the capacity of the civil sector and the social groups in the region through formal and informal associations in order to enable better promotion of the democratic processes and more extensive civic involvement on local level. Until March this year, the organization members worked on the humanitarian project for providing help to seventy families from Skopje, and among the activities they have realized so far we can mention the community development project for improving and raising the quality of the interethnic relations, financed by the European Agency for Reconstruction; the projects “Culture of Living”, “Purifying the society we live in“, projects for helping the temporarily disabled people and blind children, financed and coordinated by the UNICEF, etc.   N.B.