Meet Shana, Tibor, Sára, and David: new long-term volunteers in Rome Written by David GrélaudNovember 2025 Meet Shana, Tibor, Sára and David: four new long-term volunteers who have joined the community of La Città dell’Utopia and SCI Italy in Rome, bringing with them different backgrounds, motivations and skills. Each of them comes from a different country…
From Catalonia to Lille: Volunteering, cooking and learning along the way Written by Africa from Catalonia October 2025 My ESC Experience Hi, I‘m Africa, from Catalonia, and I’m doing a nine month volunteering project with SCI France in Lille. After quitting my job and traveling for a year; I felt I needed to do something more…
Finding Strength in Semič: A Story of People Who Give Their All Written by MathildaSeptember 2025 My Workcamp Experience Between the 26th and the 31st of September we were part of an SCI camp where we got to know Rok and his association for Paraplegics, as well as some of the members. From my perspective it…
Emma’s Testimony from the No More War Open Forum Written by EmmaMay 2025 “No More War” is more than a slogan – it’s a global network of activists taking action against the militarization of our world. Emma, a SCI volunteer, took part in the Open Forum in Bulgaria and shares her experience. At a time when…
Ongoing repression of SCI partner organizations in the West Bank Written by NourFebruary 2025 The international SCI working group focusing on the cooperation between SCI Branches and partner organisations in the Maghreb and Middle East region (MIDI WG) is following the developments in the regions as much as they can. Getting first hand information from the…
Diverse Voices, Common Needs, a reflection Written by Albanoi Retkoceri & Vesa BërbatovciDecember 2024 The Diverse Voices, Common Needs project took place between 12-19 November. We had the chance to meet people from different parts of the world, make connections, and most of all, learn about what diversity is, and how inner peace can contribute to…
Capricchia, a place of resilience and dignity – Elisa’s story Written by ElisaNovember 2024 My name is Elisa, I’m 24 years old and a student. This summer, in the second half of August, I participated in a volunteer camp in Capricchia, a small village near Amatrice in central Italy, about two hours from Rome. This project…
Lidia and Jose, the new volunteers at SCI Italy Written by Lidia and JoseApril 2024 Lidia and Jose, the new volunteers of SCI Italy, have arrived. Lidia will be working in the incoming or outgoing department, while Jose will be working with the project “La Città dell’Utopia.” My name is Lidia, and I’m 23 years old….
Peace run workcamp Written by ViktoriiaAugust 2023 12 days, 2 locations (Kuala Lumpur and Penang), 1 volunteering workcamp and an endless number of positive emotions, new experience and joy. All this happened to me at the SCI workcamp from 4th to 15th of August 2023. My name is Viktoriia, I’m from Russia, I’m 23 and this…
One word: Amazing! Written by VioletteAugust 2023 One word: AMAZING — I’m Violette, I’m 26 years old and I come from Belgium ?? I joined the SCI workcamp in Malaysia in Chesire House from the 4th till the 15th of August 2023. I had an incredible time, and I learned so many things about Malaysian culture…