Emilia Fulfilled Workcamp in Thuringia Written by EmiliaNovember 2024 My name is Emilia and I’m a sixteen year old student from Germany. I was volunteering with SCI Germany, where I participated in a workcamp focused on creating visibility at the concentration camp memorial Mittelbau-Dora in Thuringia. I decided to volunteer because I wanted to apply my…
YOUTH ARTIVISM – strengthening cultural activism through theatre in Kalisz Written by NoeliaAugust 2024 This volunteering experience in Kalisz was my first one abroad, and I can’t describe with enough words how much I’ve enjoyed it. It definitely opens the door for me to sign up for more projects in the future. In just two weeks…
Storytelling training in Vienna Written by Albanoi RetkoceriMay 2024 Ever since I started my work as a Communication Volunteer at the International Secretariat, I’ve been focusing a lot on making videos and using videos to promote volunteering. I was having a lot of fun, and I liked a lot of my earlier videos. But something just…
My Experience as a Volunteer in The Buchenwald Memorial in Germany Written by Dannie GeraldineSeptember 2023 “I am very happy that I had this opportunity because I think volunteering is one of the most important things a person can do to contribute to society.” Dannie volunteered at Buchenwald Memorial in Germany back in August with SCI…
La vie collective in Vaunières Written by EveJune 2022 Hi! My name is Eve and I’m a VSI volunteer currently working with Solidarités Jeunesses in the Hautes Alpes region of France for four months as part of a European Solidarity Corps volunteer exchange programme. As I mark one month since my arrival here in Vaunières, in…
My Online IVP Experience: Searching for Traces of Forced Labour: a Digital Photography Project Written by YvonneSeptember 2021 During the project, we learnt about a lot of things, such as about the forced labour during Nazi Germany but also about digital photography as each participant worked on their own project to document traces of forced labour in their home country,…
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…
Youth4Remembrance in Berlin Written by Ekaterina IakushinaFebruary 2020 From 31st October to 6th November, I had a chance to participate in an interesting seminar “Youth4Remembrance”. It took place in a suburb of Berlin, where there was no Internet and no any mobile signal, but there was a great group of 25 participants from 10 countries, so…
One of the greatest privileges possible Written by Nicolai Rosier, volunteer with the Europe for Citizens program in the IS of SCISeptember 2018 A new surprise to me: We got used to living in this place very quickly, arriving as individuals of free choice. The walls that separate us from one of the most horrifying places…
“Castle of Love “Saint Miklosh” Written by Violeta TasevaSeptember 2017 When I chose to go for a workcamp in Ukraine I expected few things: it will be interesting to work on the conservation and preservation of a real medieval castle (you don’t usually do this in your everyday life), I will meet nice and friendly people…