The SCI's Origin, 1st workcamp of our history: Same place, different work 100 years later

Name: The SCI's Origin, 1st workcamp of our history: Same place, different work 100 years later
Start: 2020-07-06
End: 2020-07-19
Location: France

France Manual work Renovation Manual work Peace +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

100 years ago, Pierre Ceresole invited people from different countries to come to Esnes-en-Argonne in order to rebuild houses that had been destroyed during the WW1. This was the very first workcamp of what would become Service Civil International! Nowadays, in commemoration of SCI's origin we are running a project in the same village as Pierre Ceresole did 100 years ago. The work will be different, anyway, the camp will be focusing on SCI and peace promotion history. It will be an opportunity to discover and integrate our values in order to spread them after the camp

💼 What the programme involves

The work during the camp will be diverse like clearing a graveyard like weeding or cutting woods, renovating a former presbytery now used as a public building, setting up an exhibition about SCI's history. Beside the work that will be taking place during the day, the idea of this camp is also to recount SCI's history. Especially talking about its values such as peace promoting, international solidarity, non violent conflict resolution.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will be sleeping inside a former presbytery with beds and mattress. Volunteers have to bring with a sleeping bag and a pillow! Volunteers will have to organise the daily life (cooking, grocery shopping, cleaning) by themselves

📍 About the location

Esnes-en-Argonne, eastern France

⚠️ Requirements

Volunteers are asked to bring with work gloves and good safe shoes.

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📅 Available sessions

FR-SCI 3.2

06/07/2020 → 19/07/2020

Closed

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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

France

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:55 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

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📞 Contact us

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+32 2 888 67 13

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🗣️ Languages spoken

English French