3PEAS project experience in Kosovo Written by ClaireMarch 2022 3PEAS experience Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to take part in a PDC (Permaculture Design Course) at Gaia Kosovo. Permaculture is an ethical system for living in harmony and balance with the earth and with each other. The ethics of permaculture are Earth Care, People Care and Fair…
Environmentally Aware- SEEDS Iceland Testimonial Written by SarahMarch 2022 Last year, our friends at SEEDS- Iceland held their “Environmentally Aware” online course! Here, volunteers from all over the world interacted and learned how to be environmentally conscious consumers and travelers! Over the course the year, 5 separate groups took part in workshops, quizzes and activities, including:…
What is it like to volunteer with SCI Switzerland? Written by Many volunteers’ submissionsDecember 2021 Read about three different initiatives from SCI Switzerland! 1.Eastwards From the 2th – 8th of October 2021, 17 pupils and two teacher from the Trogen-Sargans school participated in a study trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia, as part of…
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…
Zero Trash workcamp in Portugal Written by YelizAugust 2021 I took part in the Zero-Trash workcamp in Portugal over this summer. Our main activities were collecting trash in the village of Serpins near Coimbra. We went to the nearby woods where trash had been illegally thrown out and our job was to separate them based on…
Nature Park Alp Experience Written by RiccardoAugust 2021 “Bring warm clothes” was mentioned three times in the information sheet for the workcamp “Nature Park Alp Experience” on the Illalpe 2360m above sea level. For a good reason: While most of the time we were lucky with sunny weather to maintain stonewalls, meadows and trails, but also…
My workcamp in the mountains Written by RudiJune 2021 Rudi was a camp coordinator in the Workcamp Mountain Hiking Trails (Maloja GR, 23 May – 03 Jun 2021). The workcamp in Maloja has been an awesome experience. Besides the truly marvelous region, I met some wonderful people and spend an incredible time in the middle of…
Wikipedia for Peace: Climate Justice – Online Volunteer Project Written by Maria Conte and Aine BoyleFebruary 2021 Before signing up for the Wikipedia for Peace: Climate Justice online project, I was feeling a bit apprehensive about volunteering in an online space. I couldn’t grasp the idea of interacting and connecting with other volunteers in virtual reality while…
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…
It is Written by Ana ObrezaJuly 2020 It is what it is. Soon after arriving to Herzfeld Sennrüti, I realised that this sentence spontaneously became my mantra. It is the Earth, the place where we landed – we, four souls from parallel universes who decided to volunteer for a year in ecovillage HerzeldSennrüti and accept Degersheim…