IVS: 90 years and counting Volunteers’ Reflections

This publication “IVS : 90 years and counting. Volunteers’ Reflections” is a selection of Memories, seventeen in total collected for our IVS 90^th Anniversary Memories Project started in 2021.

Having collected over fifty stories so far, some selection for this modest publication was necessary. We decided to focus on the period after the previous IVS for Peace publication that is post 1949 to present day. We wanted to include a range of experiences – short, long, local, international volunteering examples and those that included a reflective element. We hope we have achieved this and the readers both enjoy and become inspired to support IVS going forward, whether as a volunteer, donor or member.

The book is dedicated to the countless volunteers, staff, peace activists and other stakeholders who have contributed to the actions of IVS for the past ninety years and counting.We wish to thank Mark Allen publisher and his team who generously funded and produced this publication for IVS. Mark was a volunteer for IVS on an SCI Italy workcamp at Locri on the Ionian coast of Calabria, Italy, building a bridge across a valley. It was a seminal experience. He always longed to go back. Some 59 years later his wish came true.

Mark writes: ” Due to my experience in Locri, IVS had a profound effect on me, I subscribed to all its values.”

 

Copies of the booklet can be ordered for £6 including p&p, and £8 for overseas  https://ivsgb.org/shop/