Banana bread unites people online! Written by Lili StepchenkoApril 2021 How to repeat the success of the online project? In my opinion, you should prepare together banana bread online, have the most productive team and very motivated participants to create a positive base for implementing the second successful online Work- and Studycamp “Female Perspectives on Police…
NVC presentation for teachers-to-be Written by Orsolya BerezvaiMarch 2021 The activity is one of the follow-up local actions to the Peace in Practice training course within the Peace in Practice project. Conflicts happen more frequently in schools. It can occur between students, teachers and parents. This is why it is important to teach students how to…
Peace Messengers Online Course Written by Lili StepchenkoJanuary 2021 My journey to Peace topic started between the years 2020 and 2021. I participated in an online seminar called SCI Peace Messengers, from the 16th of December till the 13th of January. To dive deeper into the topic and to learn how to be a Peace Messenger,…
Wikipedia for Peace on Climate Justice Written by VarshiniDecember 2020 Climate Justice is a virtual workcamp organized by SCI Switzerland and Wikimedia Switzerland which is part of a movement that wants to strengthen peace on Wikipedia by producing better content on social movements, justice, and peace in general. At first, it was an opportunity I took…
Wikipedia workcamp Written by Thomas SchallhartSeptember 2020 After 8 days of our online camp to edit Wikipedia articles about the history of Service Civil International, we are proud to have written more than 50 articles in English, Armenian, Croatian, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, and German. We also uploaded lots of new pictures from the SCI archives to…
One year as an ESC volunteer in Tramonti, Southern Italy Written by KorneliaAugust 2020 It started in spring. Tramonti in spring is changeable: sometimes sunny and warm, sometimes green and flowery, sometimes sociable and extrovert, sometimes young and erratic – but sometimes also rainy, gray and grumpy. Tramonti is characteristic, and life in Tramonti is also…
From Ireland to Albania Written by Louise Mac ElwainMay 2020 I have recently returned from my long-term voluntary experience in Tirana, Albania with Projekte Vullnetare Ndërkombëtare (PVN). PVN is involved in numerous international and national trainings that deal with different social causes such as intercultural dialogue, prejudice, non-violent communication, environmental issues and more. Alongside this they work with…
My inner healing is simultaneously contributing to healing of the world Written by EllieDecember 2019 When asked to reflect on her time here, Ellie said: “One of the simplest, yet power tools I have had the amazing fortune of learning during my time as an EVS volunteer in Sennrüti, is the Hawaiian forgiveness ritual: Ho’oponopono. It…
Memories of volunteering from El Salvador Written by Tania PortoJuly 2019 My name is Tania and I would love to share with you part of my long term volunteering experience with SCI in the ‘Consciente’ project in San Francisco Gotera (El Salvador). I think that our job as volunteers is to show the world the potential…
Experience in language teaching workcamp Written by LooWee ChiaJanuary 2019 The language teaching workcamp (Nov 19 – Dec 2018) was held in Ho Chi Minh city (Vietnam), a vibrant and crowded city full of life and motorbikes. Our first two days were welcomed by Khai, the local representative from Volunteers for Peace Vietnam (VPV). In our group,…