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Study pack on SCI for workcamps
IntroductionThis study pack shall help camp co-ordinators to organise a study part on SCI forworcamp participants. The study pack is designed, so that it can be used for different purposes adapted to the volunteers : presentations, discussion, working in groups and self study.Aim of the study packThe idea is, that the campleader organise e.g. a…
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The beginning of SCI Romania 1991-1994
In 1991, the first SCI workcamp in Romania took place. In 1994, there were already twelve workcamps and a group of enthusiastic and motivated Romanian volunteers applied to get the group status within our movement. How was this impressive growth of SCI activities possible just after the end of the communist reign where voluntary work…
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The beginning of SCI Sri Lanka 1960-1963
The beginning of SCI in Sri Lanka in the 1960s by original documents shows the history of the Asian branches.
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The first workcamp of Service Civil International
This archives documentation is a compilation of more than 30 documents and around 20 photos gives insight in the course of the first workcamp of SCI. They were scanned from original archives documents. With help of optical character recognition the content of type written reports and letters were digitized. The handwritten documents are reproduced as…
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The motivation of SCI volunteers between 1920 and 1990: from pacifism to tourism
The thesis of Nina Santner, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), focuses on the motivation of volunteers in the pacifist organization Service Civil International (SCI) in Switzerland. Its author studied the evolution of twentysix important motivations between 1920 and 1990. To determine these motivations, the following camp reports were considered: SCI brochures from 1924 to 1934, and…
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