The Asian Newsletter shares news from Service Civil International’s branches and groups across Asia: workcamps, peace programs and community projects. Here are the three issues published so far in 2026, with a few highlights from each.
August/September 2026
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- Asian Platform Meeting, Indonesia: SCI’s Asian branches and groups met in Bogor from 10 to 13 September, hosted by IVP Indonesia, to share experience on volunteer management, fundraising and networking. A mini camp with eco-farming followed.
- Sri Lanka: the “Connecting Humans Through the Essence of Language” camp (31 July to 9 August) and a summer camp on the theme “Unity in Action for Compassion and Peace” (20 to 29 August).
- India: SCI India’s Karnataka Group held a Hiroshima Day program in Bangalore on 6 August under the theme “Say No to War”, and the West Bengal Group marked the 148th birth anniversary of SCI’s founder, Pierre Ceresole, on 17 August.
- Malaysia: volunteers joined a local clean-up at a waterfall after finding it littered.
- Mauritius: SVI Mauritius’s Caravane, a two-day bicycle tour with camping and team games.
May/June/July 2026
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- India: the “Go Green Tree Plantation Camp” near the Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu (17 to 24 July), where primary school students “adopted” the new saplings to care for them.
- Sri Lanka: a weekend camp (30 April to 3 May) restored a children’s playground at Diri Daru Piyasa, Piliyandala, after cyclone damage. Volunteers removed seven uprooted trees and levelled the ground.
- Indonesia: the Semarang Urban–Peri Urban Permaculture Community Camp in July, with volunteers building garden beds, raising seedlings and working with local schools.
February/March/April 2026
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- Australia: the newsletter celebrates IVP co-founder Rita Warleigh, who was named Goulburn Citizen of the Year 2026 in the Australia Day Awards presented by Goulburn Mulwaree Council, recognising nearly four decades of volunteering. It also notes her part in establishing the Goulburn Farmers Market.
- Sri Lanka: a workcamp at Muthur (13 to 15 February) helped two community centres recover from flooding, with cleaning, painting and drainage repairs.
- India: the DDHA–SCI Workcamp 2.0 near Rajaji National Park, International Women’s Day programs in Bangalore and West Bengal, and a blood donation camp in West Bengal on 22 March.
The Asian Newsletter is produced by SCI’s Asian branches and groups. Read more about IVP and the SCI network.
