Unique adventure in Japan Written by Yann BenaventeOctober 2021 DISCOVERING JAPAN AND ITS CULTURE I went to Japan for over 70 days thanks to SCI Belgium. Japan is a beautiful country, it has always fascinated me and I dreamed of being able to discover it one day. I discovered a culture that I did not know…
Return to the roots – In the Amazon rainforest in eastern Ecuador Written by Sandrine MatthieuOctober 2021 Return to the roots in the Amazon rainforest in eastern Ecuador During my trip around the world, I wanted to do volunteering projects to live it more intensely and to be immersed in the local customs… A project in…
Sharing my experience at ChangeMakers Written by Senka NenadovJune 2021 VSI Ireland’s ESC volunteer, Senka Nenadov, participated in the SCI Change Makers event on 3rd June, organised as a follow-up event to the FLOW project. At the event, Senka spoke of her personal experience growing up in Serbia, needing personal assistance and the obstacles in the…
Let’s deconstruct Voluntourism by talking about it Written by Alex DutarqueFebruary 2018 During the third edition of « le festival des voyageurs alternatifs » set up by the Interphaz association, SCI France and partners organized a conference about « Voluntourism ». We were welcomed by the University of Lille SHS in the library. In this way we enjoyed talking about…
Spastic Annual Charity Walk Written by AnonymousJanuary 2018 Spastic Annual Charity Walk Jog Wheel-a-thon (ACWJW) is an event organized by the Spastic Association Selangor & Federal Territory together with 30 over like-minded Non Government Organizations (NGOs) raising funds for the special-needs people. SCI KL is one of the long supporting NGO to this noble event. I…
Tour of Freedom – Cycling Activism in Kosovo Written by AnonymousSeptember 2017 The Problem is not the WASTE. the contaminated AIR; WATER and SOIL. It is the collective Apathy that makes a whole global society live in the Illusion that everything is fine as it is. -Tour of Freedom participant We got used to our…
BREfest celebrated Sharr Mountain nature and culture Written by Raquel AmaralAugust 2017 From 11th to 13th of August more than 150 people joined BREfest, a festival of music and nature organized by GAIA (SCI Kosovo) at Brezovica, Kosovo. Local people and guests from around Kosovo and neighboring countries gathered in the ski center of Brezovica for this nature celebration….
Balkan Steps – Silvia story Written by Silvia ValdreJuly 2017 “Today we can finally breathe!”, I thought, maybe too naively, this morning. The heat, until yesterday nearly unbearable, has decreased considerably, gifting us with a bit of relief. Problems, however, as I too soon discovered, have not stopped yet: the burning sun has been replaced by…
Balkan Steps – Alessandra’s story Written by AlessandraJuly 2017 In the last weeks we had the chance to have a glance at the hardness of the reality that the refugees here are forced to face every day and to try to understand it better. All of them keep trying the so called “Game”, a nice name…
SCI France Annual Assembly Written by Geoffrey RebolloJune 2017 I was invited to go to the Annual Assembly of SCI France about a week ago. I arrived in Lille, where Eline and Victor picked me up and drove me along with 5 others from SCI France in the direction of Bretagne! 7 hours later, we finally…