By Anna Sach Being an European Solidarity Corps Volunteer at the office of SCI Catalunya for seven months, the time just flew by because it was filled with so many different learnings, feelings, experiences and people I met. I realise how big the change is from the first time when I entered our office in...
Categoria: Catalunya
My experience in the Youth Act International Forum
By Athar Shtiwe After participating in the International Forum Youth Act I, luckily, I was invited to participate in the International Forum Youth Act II. We were a group of young people from different parts of the Mediterranean and on the 13th of June, we arrived and started our journey in the beautiful city of...
Fighting Global Challenges in the Peaceweek
By Marzia and Hannah For one week in March, we – activists, youth workers and educators – came together in Barcelona for the Peaceweek, a training seminar on the linkages between the climate crisis, (forced) migration and displacement. Our group consisted of 21 people from the Euro-Mediterranean region. All focusing on different issues – the...
“The amount of knowledge I gained can’t even be put into a few words”
By Cristina Debu Being a volunteer is not only investing in yourself but also in the environment you would like to live in. It means constantly challenging yourself, your comfort zone and what you thought you knew about the world that surrounds you.
My ESC project in SCI Catalunya
Per Bogumiła Hładki Time flies and good things come to the end as they say. It was like yesterday when I came to Barcelona to start my ESC project in the office of SCI branch. I remember the advice given to me by the previous ESC volunteer: enjoy every moment of your project as it...
Un intercanvi juvenil de construcció i diàleg intercultural als Pirineus lleidatans, Vall de Siarb
Per Alberto Tarragó Un any més el SCI-Cat amb la col·laboració de – SCI Irlanda, SCI-Italia, – Para One (Portugal) va realitzar un Youth Exchange sobre interculturalitat, racisme, inclusió, gènere, lluita contra els estereotips… Durant 10 dies participants d’arreu del món van conviure junts al Refugi de la Vall de Siarb, Llagunes. Un paisatge idíl·lic...
“La societat tendeix a oprimir realitats o idealitzar-les” – Peaceweek
Article de Nadezhda Kitipova (Bulgaria), participant de la peaceweek 2019 El Raval és un barri ple de color i ple de vida que m’ha fascinat amb les històries reals sobre les lluites i esperances dels seus habitants. He tingut la sort de fer una ullada al seu cor visitant el taller del Top Manta -el lloc...
Study camp: Nonviolence as a tool for social mobilization
From 11 to 15 December 2017, we welcomed an international group in a study camp on non-violent resistance. We received a group of international SCI activists with whom we debated and reflected on the social movements in Catalonia as tools of non-violent resistance based on the discovery of different groups. We offered some activities open...
1m3 de deixalles, esperit ‘pipi’
Per Alba Danés Boix Diumenge cap al tard, principis d’agost, arribem a Can Pipirimosca, una finca situada a 20 minuts caminant del centre de Valls (Alt Camp). Som 13 voluntaris de l’SCI, venim d’Itàlia, el Kazakhstan, la República Txeca, Dinamarca, Rússia, Alemanya, Sèrbia i Catalunya. Ens reb en Pere Vidal, ell és qui gestiona Can...