Articles taggés "workcamp"

For two weeks, fourteen volunteers from all over Europe were involved in the building of a barrier free garden. It was not only a workcamp, but a full-time experience of personal, social, and cultural enrichment.

The year 2021 remains the centenary history of Service Civil International (SCI), born out of a passionate search for peace, immediately after World War I. Its board members were actively involved in the peace-creating movement: the ones dedicated almost their whole life to it. Among numerous people related with the NGO, appeared John Myers - Project Coordinator, currently retiring. A look back on his over 44-year SCI history - in the reportage below.

Besides of youth meetings and summer workcamps, those were described in my reports before, the hosting organization I am doing my project for (ICJA) organizes preparation of workcamp leaders as well as leads the seminar after the workcamp's season, detailed analyzing experience of each single camp leader he/she got during the workcamp.

I had the great chance to be a camp leader of an international group this summer. My second workcamp took place in NATURE DISCOVERY PARK in PRENZLAU (Brandenburg) between 06.08. – 18.08.2018.