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  • Masthead of the SCI Asian Newsletter, August/September 2026: the SCI logo and title over an antique world map.

    SCI Asian Newsletter 2026

    News from SCI’s branches and groups across Asia: the three Asian Newsletter issues of 2026, with highlights including Rita Warleigh’s Goulburn Citizen of the Year…

  • A market stall table covered with fresh vegetables, including carrots, silverbeet, rhubarb, beetroot and potatoes, with shoppers behind.

    Goulburn Farmers Market

    Fresh local produce on the fourth Saturday of every month at the Goulburn Showgrounds. How IVP helped start the Goulburn Farmers Market, what you’ll find…

  • A cluster of white native Australian flowers with pink centres, against blurred grass.

    Raising Peace

    Raising Peace is an alliance of more than 30 Australian peace organisations, created in 2020 to celebrate 100 years of SCI. Its story, festivals, podcast,…

  • Banner for the digital workcamp “This is Peace to Me”: a mushroom cloud whose top turns into green tree canopy, with the text “A digital workcamp about the consequences of the wars and the ways we can raise awareness through arts”, the logos of SCI Hellas, Service Civil International and Create Peace, and “Start on 14th of September, Online”.

    Digital workcamp “This is Peace to Me”

    SCI Hellas invited about 15 young people from around the world to “This is Peace to Me”, an online workcamp in September 2026 exploring how…

  • Four volunteers walking across a grassy paddock towards farm buildings at sunset, with gum trees and rolling hills near Taralga.

    Workcamp report: Creating Glideways

    In May, volunteers from Australia, Spain, Russia, Hong Kong and France spent two weeks near Taralga, NSW, learning wildlife monitoring from experts, planting trees and…

  • Five volunteers in rain jackets sitting beside a flooded bed of bright green rice seedlings.

    Maki workcamp in Japan

    Charlotte Cameron spent thirteen days in June 2025 at Maki, an organic, self-sufficient village near Japan’s northern alps, planting rice and repairing traditional houses.

  • Seven volunteers, most in high-visibility vests, giving a thumbs up at a Tallong Apple Day Festival stall.

    22 Hours to Sell Apple Pies: This Is Why We Do It

    Andrea Grugel flew 22 hours from Germany to help at the Tallong Apple Day Festival in New South Wales with six other volunteers. Here she…

  • An IVP information stall: an orange and green IVP flag with a dove, hung above a table of leaflets and a laptop, with display boards about workcamps on either side.

    History of IVP

    IVP co-founder Rita Warleigh tells how three volunteers started SCI Australia at a Glebe café in 1988, and how it grew into International Volunteers for…

  • Mile High in Mongolia: a workcamp story

    A workcamp near Ulaanbaatar gave Monica Kampfer the chance to help at a summer camp for Mongolia’s orphans and to experience the nomadic way of…

  • Getting to know the sea turtle: a workcamp story from Mexico

    In October 2003 Jade Herriman camped on a beach in Mexico and patrolled it at night to protect the nests of Olive Ridley sea turtles.