History

The second workcamp in Wales (Great Britain), was also community volunteer service, in order to convert waste land near Rhosllanerchrugog [Rhos] into a garden and children’s playground

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…

Esnes near Verdun 1920 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.

Presentation about SCI Service in Safien  (Switzerland) 1932 – an example of peace policy of SCI Switzerland towards authorities.

In 1932 an SCI Service took place in the village of Safien which was affect by an avalanche. A team volunteers went immediately there.Arround the Service in Safien an interesting correspondence took place between Pierre Ceresole and the minister of Defence.

During the Great Depression in the 1920s the Quakers initiated an unemployment initiative in which the Brynmawr Lido was also built. This was in 1931 and 1932, when unemployed men, students, and international volunteers together built the swimming pool in the colliery town which had suffered from an economic crisis.

Presentation about SCI history with thesis on SCI.

Described year by year.

This article is a contribution to the discussion, wheter SCI should be conflict regions. Three examples of the SCI history are described in this article.