Per Joachim-Emmanuel Baudhuin Bon dia a tots i a totes, sóc el Joachim, un dels dos nous ESC de la branca de l’SCI Catalunya a Barcelona! Sóc belga i vaig arribar aquí el 29 de setembre. Tens ganes de saber com és la vida d’un ESC a Barcelona? Allons-y! El meu ESC va “començar” el...
Categoria: Europa occidental
My experience as a participant in the Grassroots Training of Trainers
By Mirko Ornielli Between the 2nd and the 9th of October 2022, I was one of the 20 participants of the training of trainers of work camp coordinators, organized by SCI Catalunya with the collaboration of several international partners. We were coming from different countries in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and we were staying at...
Conclusió d’un intercanvi juvenil: “The future is not empty”
Per Karolina, Sergio, Fatima i Ona a l’Intercanvi Juvenil “Covid19: what now?” Ja farà més d’un mes que hem tornat del nostre viatge cap a la utopia. Durant una setmana vam aprendre a parar, agafar perspectiva de nosaltres mateixes i el que ens envolta i detectar tot allò que ens remou per a poder-ho tractar...
“The time during my ESC flew by because it was filled with so many learnings”
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...
Discussing Democracy in Strasbourg’s Youth Action Week
By Àneu Muns For one week in June 400 young activists, youth workers, civil society and representatives of student organizations gathered in Strasbourg, France, for the campaign of the Council of Europe Youth Here: Democracy Now! and was organized under the patronage of the Irish Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council 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...
Pausing for breath after the first half of my ESC at SCI Catalunya’s office
By Anna Sach I wake up on the night train at the French-Spanish border. The sun is rising over the Pyrenees. I have three weeks “out of office” behind me: a week of online Mid-Term Evaluation Seminar; a week of training in Rome on queer feminism and dealing with gender-based discrimination; a week of visiting...
My ESC in SCI Catalunya
By VIOLETTA SFOUNTOURI Taking the decision to come to SCI Catalunya as a volunteer was pretty easy, as a very good friend of mine, who I trust a lot, advised me to take a look at the ESC placement in the organization last year. I did not know anything about SCI up until then, so...
“Si voles per Can Pipirimosca…”
Article de Magí Ribot, participant del camp de treball de Can Pipirimosca 2021 En funció de la manera en com abracis l’experiència propiciarà un canvi més o menys significatiu en el teu cercle relacional amb el món. Una profunda petja en tu i ressaca emocional al final.
Un dia en la vida d’un voluntari ESC a Alemanya
By Ionut-Cosmin Popescu A fresh and shy warm-humid breeze moves the polaroids we took at yesterday’s party. The sun is strong but it barely burns my skin as I sit on the desk where I get light all morning.