During the month of November, as part of the “Activist in Residence” programme, SCI Catalunya hosted Mohammed, a Kurdish Human Rights Defender who carried out advocacy activities to raise awareness of the current situation of the Kurdish people. Here we share his inspiring story. I am Mohammed Mohammed, a 28-year-old from a Syrian Kurdish family....
Continuing with the process of feminist transformation, we extend the protocol to also address colonial violence from an intersectional perspective SCI Catalunya has had a protocol to address sexist and LGTBIQ-phobic aggressions since 2021. However, the protocol is a living tool that must be worked on and expanded. In 2023 we expanded it to include...
La Comunitat Els Avets is looking for 2 volunteers to join them during 12 months during 2024-25 (Starting in November 2024) This is an European Solidarity Corps project, funded by EU. Only volunteers from the EU. The projectEls Avets de Moià Foundation is a non-profit organization whose main mission is the attention and care of adult persons with...
We’ve just published our second edition of the toolkit: “To exist is to resist. Handbook for Volunteers to Palestine”! In spite of the current turbulent and very dramatic situation in Palestine, we must look at the future with hope and keep preparing those who will choose to carry out their volunteering work in this land....
The III International Youth Act Forum brought together young people from Colombia, Palestine and Catalonia in Barcelona for a week of learning, debates with a critical perspective, and building alliances within youth activism From the 15th to the 21st of April, a participative process of more than a year between 60 young people from very...
SCI Catalunya is opening a call for 2 ESC volunteers to support the work in the office on volunteer placement tasks Are you from any European country, you know SCI and would like to be more involved? Are you interested in the culture of peace and the motives for local activism? Read this! We are looking...
We present the Workcamps that will take place in Catalonia this summer. Don’t miss the opportunity to participate in a transformative volunteering project! TINENÇA DE BENIFASSÀ: Let’s build an iberian house – Experimental Archaeology (23rd March – 1st April) [FULL] Description: We’re witnessing rapid changes in our environment & the protagonists of it ought to...
The workcamp will consist of building a replica of an Iberian house with clay. It will take place from March 23 to April 1 in the natural park of Tinença de Benifassà, in Castellò, and is open to families! Read carefully the description of the workcamp and register here! The project aims to explore biodynamic...
Mas les Vinyes (Catalunya) is searching for 4 EU volunteers interested in permaculture inside the ESC programme from March to September or from May to November 2024. Sign up before the 15th of february! Les Vinyes is a communitary life project in a 25 hectares farm which follows the permaculture and biodynamic agriculture guidelines. The...
Ten activists from various Catalan entities went to the West Bank this September in a strategic visit organized by Suds and SCI SCI Catalunya is very concerned about what is happening in Palestine. It is essential to know the structural causes to understand the current situation of violence: we are not talking about a conflict...
