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The SCI veteran David Palmer has recently been contacted by an Iranian student requesting information about about the reconstruction project, which took place almost 50 years ago in Dousadj.David writes about his volunteer experience in Iran in 1963 and some of the conclusions she has arrived at in her study.

From time to time, the SCI Archives website features memories of former workcamp volunteers. Over the past year, Greg Wilkinson, now aged 75, has been working on a blog called ‘Lifework Drafts’ which includes two years on SCI work-camps in the mid-50s, when he refused military service in Britain. In 1962, Greg returned to SCI…

The Archives of SCI France and its Commission for Africa, Asia and Latin America (CAAAL) have recently been made accessible to the public at the Archives Départementales du Val-de-Marne, located in Créteil near Paris.

Exhibition about the Swiss home for children in France 1939-1944 and the dedicated life of Maurice DuboisA new exhibition about the children’s home in Elne (France) maintained by SCI volunteers during the World War II has been created. It will be shown in the Bibliothéque de la ville La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland) (*) starting 16.June till…

Antonio Belmonte, historian and long standing of SCI group in Madrid, published recently a book about the Spanish Civil War with photo from SCI Archives. 

The exhibition Pierre Ceresole – Ein Leben im Dienst des Friedens will be shown from in the Mätthaus Church in Luzern (Switzerland) from 13.March till 30.March 2012.