Today we had the first day of workshop. We met our teachers, Mamudija and Mira and the girls who will help them already yesterday, but today we got into action. Women are teaching us how to make art out of glass beads. Mamudja started doing this crafts about 7 years ago when her sister in…
Our volunteers arrived to Plemetina! Time to start the second* part of the project “Magic Hands”! The first day of the workcamp has just passed and brought a lot of excitement. Before we start our workshops with Roma women and learn the traditional handcrafts they do, before we begin to work on the book and…
GAIA SCI KOSOVO calls for youth to join summer workcamp projects abroad. Each year thousands of volunteers join international voluntary workcamps which are being organized on all continents. The idea of international voluntary workcamps started right after the World War I, in 1920, when volunteers from ‘’enemy countries’’ joined forces in reconstruction of destroyed…
As an effect of this story, I want people from my country to also use these workcamp opportunities to discover places, meet people and create experiences that they would proudly talk about. I did not think a lot before going to my first workcamp, I just did it. I wanted to travel and I wanted…
A volunteer travelled with GAIA to a workcamp called ‘Youth for Human Rights’ to Tirana. Here she writes about her experiences: The work camp, which took place in the village of Ndroq, 18 km southeast of Tirana, started off with two brainstorming sessions for the planning of awareness raising activities on the topics of human…
We have just finished our first workcamp in Shtime and it was a great sucess! In the 10 days of the workcamp we managed a lot of renovation work in the Balkan Sunflower Learning center, to help and to improve the environment for the children who go there! We have to say a big THANK…
Every year there are hundreds of workcamps within the SCI network all over the world. Workcamps are international short term volunteer projects. For around two to three weeks you can meet people from different countries, cultures and backgrounds and together with local communities you can work on a joint project. The goal is to support…
SCI WORKCAMPS 2013 It is that time of the year again! The new camp season of SCI has opened. The database of (short-term) voluntary projects (also called`work camps`) is full of new volunteering opportunities! GAIA invites everyone who wants to experience a few weeks of international solidarity, intercultural exchange and friendship combined with fun and…
WORK CAMPS 2012 Yes! It is that time of the year again! The new camp season of SCI has opened. The database of (short-term) voluntary projects (also called `work camps`) is full of new volunteering opportunities! GAIA invites everyone who wants to experience a few weeks of international solidarity, intercultural exchange and friendship combined with fun and…