We are a sending/hosting/coordinating organisation for EVS since 2008. Since 2011 we also host and send a lot of volunteers abroad under the “Service Civique” program of the French state. As sending organisation, we provide a pre-departure training of 4 days to all our long-term volunteers. These 4 days are meant for discovering “what is…
Service Civil International is an international non-governmental organization working for peace, solidarity and understanding through voluntary services. It was founded by Pierre Ceresole, a Swiss engineer in 1920 after the 1st world war. He founded it with the idea that voluntary services to the helpless and needy people are more powerful for peace than the…
Since 1982 we have been working to promote international volunteering and peace education as means of social transformation in Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands and Andorra. We are doing so with a vision of associative base and in a network with local and international organizations.
Volunteers’ Centre Zagreb has its roots in a 1996. Croatian Anti-war Campaign project started up with the help of Service Civil International (SCI) and was officially registered in 1998. Through SCI, first foreign volunteers came to the town of Pakrac in mid-1990s to help rebuild war-devastated areas. This was the project which initiated our International…
Útilapu was founded in 1993 by a group of passionate young people who had also participated in foreign camps and thought to bring the opportunity to Hungary as well. Since then, with our help, more than a hundred volunteers go to foreign camps all around the world and return with an unforgettable experience in each…
CVS-Bulgaria is a non-governmental organisation that has worked in the field of international volunteer exchange since 1998 and was officially registered in 2002 as an organisation working in public benefit. CVS-Bulgaria is a branch of the international peace and volunteer-exchange network of Service Civil International (SCI – www.sciint.org) as well as a full member of…
We are peace activists seeking justice and solidarity with all people regardless of any social, political or religious borders separating us. We are inspired by a vision that all of us are capable of living together with mutual respect and that we shall overcome our challenges without any form of violence against each other and…
SCI Italia, founded in 1948 and “revitalised” in the 70s, is based in Rome and is supported by various local groups. During its existence it has sent and received thousands of volunteers, contributing to the spread of international volunteering in our country. SCI Italy has always been sensitive to the problems of social inclusion and…
In GAIA Kosovo we do not have a ‘dreamy’ vision of future because of its sheer impossibility to face the extensive crisis of today that confronts us with the collapse of the planet and human societies. Nevertheless, our aim is to work towards systematic change in society, which, eventually might enable us to have a…
International Volunteers for Peace promotes peace through intercultural dialogue and through direct actions initiated and supervised at community level. It is an avenue for travellers to engage with local issues while abroad, extend their knowledge of themselves and of others. It is run by and for volunteers in partnership with other organisations or by building…