It is part of your work “to improve the environment a bit” Written by Mitzi de Jesús Conejo LunaAugust 2019 My name is Mitzi, I am 21 years old and I volunteered at the VIA VZW Project in Meihof Asylum Centre in Lint, a small village in the province of Antwerp (Belgium), where there are around…
Relaxation, spirituality and excitement in Draganac Monastery Written by CéliaAugust 2019 Draganac Monastery is this kind of place that you cannot describe with one sentence. The moment I arrived there, I felt different vibrations, between relaxation, spirituality and excitement. I arrived there on a Saturday afternoon to help settling the workcamp that GAIA Kosovo and the…
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…
Peace on the streets Written by Stanko NedicJune 2019 The 7-day-training “Peace on the Streets” took place from 1st to 7th June in Vienna, organized by SCI Austria as a seminar about Street activism and campaigns, which are connected to spreading peace in different ways. The international SCI training gathered 26 people from all over Europe…
Peace Messenger Study Session in Strasbourg Written by Arta AbduliApril 2019 Recently a SCI/VYRE peace messengers study-session took place in the European Youth Centre Strasbourg. Last week I attended the Study session “Peace in the Spotlight” that took place from 8th to 12th April organised by Service Civil International, Voices of Young Refugees in Europe and in cooperation…
Volunteer summer in the Mountains of the Balkans Written by GAIA KosovoFebruary 2019 If you are from the Balkans you would not be able to imagine the landscape and natural heritage of the region without coming to think of Velebit, Sharr, Pirin or Frushka gora mountains. All of them are special places which provide home for…
Wonderful days at farming workcamp in Malaysia Written by LooWee ChiaJanuary 2019 It was a great learning experience to attend Organic Farming and Meditation workcamp at Cameron Highlands (Malaysia) last December (11-21). We got to learn the ins and outs of organic farming from seeding, planting, compost making, to harvesting and packaging. Among all, weeding was…
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,…
European Solidarity Design was a most wonderful experience! Written by Isanne ten HaveDecember 2018 My departure I left early in the morning to Schiphol. Here the nerves struck me and once I was on the plane this continued to persist. But then I thought of the reasons I had chosen for the project. I really wanted…
BioBlitz at Jenolan Caves Written by S. HornDecember 2018 An IVP Weekend workcamp team recently pitched in to assist organisers of a citizen science event at a popular tourist destination and nature biodiversity hotspot, near Sydney. For this occasion we advertised for volunteers at the Asylum Seeker Centre in Sydney, and three people on temporary visas…