Two Unforgettable Months in Kenya Written by Regula IffMarch 2024 Can you introduce yourself? I am Regula from Switzerland and I am 37 years old. I live in Bern, and I currently work as an HR specialistI worked in HR for the government for many years, but then I decided to do something else and have…
Edward’s volunteering experience with SAVWA Written by Edward ChilopaApril 2023 Edward Chilopa from New Hope Waves, Zambia, is currently doing long-term volunteering with South Africa Volunteer Workcamps Association (SAVWA). In February 2023 he travelled 24 hours by truck, nearly 1200km, to reach his new home for the coming months: Soshanguve, a township situated about 30km north…
Women and Community Development, a project that calls for sisterhood Written by Delphine DeclercqSeptember 2022 Sensitive to the feminist cause and invaded by a desire to escape after these last two confined years, I left for Togo in January 2022 for a project on women empowerment. Three months of emotions and learning that will serve me…
Fighting Global Challenges Written by Marzia and HannahApril 2022 Linking Migrations with Climate Emergency: Empowering Youth to Fight Global Emerging Challenges For one week in March, we – activists, youth workers and educators – came together in Barcelona for the Peaceweek, a training seminar on the linkages between the climate crisis, (forced) migration and displacement. Our…
Long term adventure in France Written by SarahSeptember 2021 Sarah Browne, one of VSI Ireland’s ESC volunteers did her ESC project in France with a Youth Information Point – Maison de l’Europe en Mayenne in Laval, from September 2020 to July 2021. She was an Ambassador of Europe and mobility with EuropeDirect. Sarah’s project was divided into…
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…
At least I tried. Our workcamp in the wild Written by Shirin HodzhevaAugust 2019 It all started with the Gendered Realities project and the call for local activities on gender equality topic by SCI. The team of three girls Bea from Poland, Vili and Shirin from Bulgaria, who already had organized two workcamps on women empowerment…
International Workcamp Coordinators’ Training Written by HemmamaliJune 2016 This is the story about our International Workcamp Coordinators’ training which was organized by SCI Catalunya. We were all eighteen participants from twelve countries in Mas Franch, from 31st of May to 6th of June 2016. During these days we had many sessions regarding the organization of camps,…
“Usual Minority”: What Foreign Activists Saw during Kyiv Equality March Written by Viktoria GrivinaJune 2016 or What I Learnt about LGBTQ during Kyiv Pride 2016 The program of “KyivPride 2016” included round table on the rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)people in Ukraine, discussions on the development of the LGBT movement, training on educational…
Sex and Gender in Berlin 2015 Written by Alexia MarcouApril 2016 “It was very interesting, rich and and the atmosphere was amazing.” The leaders: Tanja, from SCI Germany, and Valerie, from Austria but who lives in Torino, Italy, were amazing leaders. They were friendly, smiley, funny, smart and interesting, and were our friends as well as our…