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On behalf of SCI India I am sending you very sad news. Our friend and activist Chandru Raghavan passed away last night 17 January 2022, at his home in Bangalore.  

In the frame of of the 100th anniversary of SCI, SCI Archives made the selection of objects and wrote the corresponding texts for Virtual Museum – an online gallery in which physical objects, mainly from the Archives, are displayed.

The sixth and last report on behalf of the “International Service Group” dates April 15th, 1921, and has been signed by Pierre Ceresole.

Hubert Parris, one of the leaders of the project alongside with Pierre Ceresole, wrote the fifth report on March 13th.  

Ruth von Wild (1912-1983) whose journey through Catalonia and later through France, to protect refugee children, left a photo album with pictures from that time.An exhibition at the Memorial Democrátic in Barcelona shows pictures from this album and tells the story behind it.

The fourth regular report, signed by Hubert Parris and directed to the “Movement towards a Christian International”, dated January 20, 1921, lists the participants present in Esnes at that moment.

Besides archiving historical documents and files, it is important to write about them and to make them known. The Swiss branch of Service Civil International (SCI Switzerland) organizes a workcamp in cooperation with Wikimedia which is part of the Wikipedia for Peace project.Volunteers are invited to do research with various material from SCI Archives to…

Bhupendra Kishore, popularly known as Bhuppy, former Indian branch and Asian Secretary of SCI, a person with many facets, passed away in the evening of December 31, 2020, at his home in New Delhi.Chandru Raghavan, former International Secretary of SCI, has written an obituary and compiled reactions from friends all around the world read more…