Consider these special programs:

 Volunteer with Balkan Sunflowers

 Support UNESCO International Year for the Culture of Peace

 Workcamps asking specifically for Americans

A look at a few people behind the scenes at SCI:

     Just about one-third of the attendants to the International Committee Meeting of SCI in Northern Ireland in 1998. Activists from three continents (Asia, Europe and North America) representing some of the 33 national branches of Service Civil International meet and plan the worldwide grassroots activities that you can volunteer to be a part of every year.
 

Join an international workcamp around the world:

     An international workcamp is made up of volunteers from many nationalities working together in grassroots community service projects all over the world promoting tolerance and understanding.

     For 125 US$ (application fee for most projects), you can join a workcamp, receive room and board during the 2-3 week project, and experience the activism of peace through deeds not words.
 

Be a long term volunteer for 3 months to a year or more:

     Being a Medium to Long Term Volunteer (M/LTV) is a way to experience other cultures, meet people from other countries, learn new skills, take part in peacemaking and help in environmental, and social service initiatives.

     An M/LTV volunteers for three months to a year or more depending on their preference and the laws of the country they go to. These M/LTV positions are excellent opportunities for students to gain experience in international service projects and obtain hands on experience in world issues.

A project for women only:

     Thank you to Mekayla, now back studying in Minnesota, for sending us her pictures and workcamp story from July of 1999. She was in a remote area 90 kilometers north of Berlin with a group of 15 volunteers from 7 different countries. "Our job was to turn this little forgotten plot of horror into a memorial to the women who were imprisoned there, and an education for current and future visitors."
     Mekayla volunteered at a women only workcamp at the site of a former concentration camp for women, Ravensbrück, where more than 132,000 were incarcerated, forced to work, suffered from hunger, punishment and medical experiments during the Second World War.
 

A tune you may hear volunteers singing to: