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SCI Representative the New President of CCIVS
Posted by on Nov 29
We are extremely happy to share the latest news from the General Assembly of the Coordinating Commitee for International Voluntary Service: SCI representative, Ingrid Danckaerts will succeed Matina Deligianni from SJ France as the new president of the Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS).
“Los Otros“ a Seminar Against Stereotypes
Posted by on Nov 28
From 30 October until 5 November 2016 participants from SCI branches and partners from all around Europe met in Madrid to discuss and develop the complexities of stereotypes. SCI Madrid and the SCI Pool of Trainers and Facilitators organised the seminar "Los Otros: How to prepare young people do deal with their own stereotypes".
Photo taken in seminar "Los Otros: How to prepare young people do deal with their own stereotypes". Madrid, Spain (October 2016)
PATH and Building Bridges meetings in Budapest
Posted by on Nov 28
Last weekend the members of the PATH project and the Building Bridges campaign teamed up in Budapest for a coordination meeting. Both PATH and Building Bridges focus on refugee related topics, PATH on learning lessons from the forced migration in the past and Building Bridges on cooperation, knowledge sharing and raising awareness about refugee issues. The meeting was successful and gave direction to future work. Main areas of work were identified and tasks distributed to the team members.
Photo made by Suvi Helko, EVS at International Secretariat SCI, at Path and Building Bridges meetings in Budapest, Novem,ber 2016
Seeds of peace
Posted by on Nov 28
SCI activists were busy planting this year! The 3rd phase of GAIA MicroGrants came to an end in November after 8 projects were implemented in India, South Africa, Germany, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Estonia, Bangladesh and Mauritius. Each project received financial support of up to 500 euro and peer-to-peer mentoring by members of the program team.
Stop #ViolenceAgainstWomen
Posted by on Nov 25
Today, 25th of November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and even today a lot of people, unfortunately, underrate the problem.
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life”. Global estimates published by WHO indicate that about 1 in 3 (35%) women worldwide have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. According to the COE women aged 15- 44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, motor accidents and malaria.
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