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Dear Friends,

This week we are coming with exciting news! In less than two weeks we are launching the Soil Manifesto and we will need your support to collect signatures. We are also sharing with you the Call for Participants of the “International Training Seminar on the Role of Intercultural Voluntary Projects in The Process of Inclusion and Participation of Young Migrants and Refugees”.
The countdown has begun! Launching the Soil Manifesto on August 9📢

It’s time to warm up the engines. In the last months, we have received inputs from lawyers and activists to create a Manifesto that takes into account existing environmental laws and movements. Kate Curtis, Coordinator of the Soil Manifesto, finalised the Manifesto and together with a team of volunteers, we translated it to German, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. The Manifesto will be available in 10 languages!

The countdown has begun! What does it mean? Next Monday we will post on social media for the ‘one week to launch’ and we will post also for ‘3 days left’, ‘2 days left’ and ‘1 day left’. We need your support to spread the word! Share the news within your organisation, family, friends, volunteers, camp leaders,… Use your social media profiles, pages, newsletter,… everything!

And, why not, save the event on your calendar to remind you that on August 9 you have to sign the Soil Manifesto!

The event is public! 🔗 https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NHBqdGh1YjdpZGVxbmU2cm8xb2V0aWNqZXAgY19yZGM0Yzg1dWw0aTZvNGdxYjBpNnY0bHZwZ0Bn&tmsrc=c_rdc4c85ul4i6o4gqb0i6v4lvpg%40group.calendar.google.com

Call for Participants of the “International Training Seminar on the Role of Intercultural Voluntary Projects in The Process of Inclusion and Participation of Young Migrants and Refugees”

As the main partner of the project INVOLVE, CCIVS is proposing a training seminar on the role of intercultural voluntary projects in the process of inclusion and participation of young migrants and refugees under its annual campaign Raising Peace framework.

The Training Seminar aims to strengthen the capacity and resources of voluntary service organisations and NGOs that work or want to work with young migrants and refugees and use intercultural voluntary service as a social inclusion tool

📅  16 September 2021 (arrival) – 23 September 2021 (departure)

🏡  Vaunières, France (hosted by Solidarités Jeunesses)

🌐 Participants: 14 from Europe, 1 from Africa, 1 from America, 1 from Asia, 1 from Arab States

Participants can submit their application by 15 August via the online application form. The selection result will be communicated by 18 August.

For more information you can read the CALL via this link.

That’s all for this week! If you have any doubts, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Júlia Pérez Lema
CCIVS Communication Officer
UNESCO House
1, rue Miollis
75015 Paris, France
Tel. +33 1 45684936
secretariat@ccivs.org
https://ccivs.org
Facebook /secretariatccivs
Instagram @ccivsvolunteer
Twitter @ccivs_volunteer  @raising_peace

Dear all, 

As a follow-up, we’d like to share some links you can use to advertise the open International Coordinator Position. 

Website: https://sci.ngo/sci-is-recruiting-an-international-coordinator/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2335157657/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ServiceCivilInternational/posts/10159854359192848

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CR9DHshqEZU/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sciint/status/1421084427967471619

Here you can find the designs to use for your own promotion.

We would appreciate it if you disseminate the open position widely and feel free to come back to me with any suggestions or questions. 

Sincerely, 

Chantal 

SCI is looking for a new International Coordinator to lead its International Secretariat located in Antwerp, Belgium!
We are looking for someone with strong leadership and communication skills, intercultural experience, strategic thinking and interest to work in an international organisation with a mission to create a culture of peace.  
The call is on the international website and can be found here: https://sci.ngo/sci-is-recruiting-an-international-coordinator/

The Philippines is an archipelagic nation wherein marine life is our way of life. Through this workcamp, we look forward to bringing in a global perspective to our local situation and together expand our motivation to be a SEA advocate: Exploring Marine Life Biodiversity (SDG 14: Life Below Water). 
Dates: 26 – 30 July, 2021
Deadline of Application: July 22, 2021

For detailed workcamp description and to apply, please contact placements@ivp.org.au

Plants for Peace team has two new recruits, sisters Margaret and Joan. They helped out in Goulburn this week with the plants that are in transit to South Coast.  Together with Rita, they sorted, counted and identified as well as pruned and re-potted those that needed some TLC.  Margaret and Joan have good plant knowledge and were able to identity some that I was not sure of. 

We are grateful to Michael who is now doing regular trips between Sydney and Goulburn and liaising with Mahesh to bringing a load of plants with each trip. 

The community of Moruya are awaiting our next delivery as they already have plans in place to take the plants on to surrounding communities.

Another exciting development is our new collaboration with Foundation for National Parks to source and deliver site-specific plants to areas where needed.  

Margaret documenting and Joan pruning.

2pm on 23rd May 2021

To be held on-line.

https://meet.google.com/toc-drbs-pvn

Join by phone‪ (AU) +61 3 8594 9946‬ PIN: ‪768 561 055‬#

More phone numbers

Members are invited to attend the 2021 AGM of International Volunteers for Peace Inc.  You do not need to register to attend.  The formal requirements are acceptance of minutes of the last AGM and the 2020 finance, followed by reports from office holders in the present committee (available beforehand through the website) and Elections for the new Committee. 

There will be opportunities to put your thoughts or queries to the outgoing committee. If you wish to express an interest in becoming more involved in IVP please put your name forward for the new committee either at the meeting, or contact me on admin@ivp.org.au.  

The Peace Fair later in the year; and the prospect of revival of volunteer projects post-lockdown gives an opportunity to shape IVPs progress over next months.  IVP in its eventful years of existence has affected the lives of many Australians who have come in contact with it – at one of the actions close to home, or as volunteers placed at workcamps overseas. We warmly welcome reconnection with workcamp volunteers, or activists from earlier days. It might be too that you now have time or opportunity to resume the journey or encourage others to set out.

In peace

Stephen Horn

For the 2020 IVP Committee  

Publicize this opportunity to volunteer at the Goulburn Show.  See attached poster. Please

• forward the poster to your friends and networks
• print out and put it up in your local library, corner shop, university or community noticeboard
• tell your friends or enroll yourself

Thanks you

IVP team

We hope to meet you there!

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

We are doing a big effort to not spam you after the amazing events that went on during the #nuclearban treaty entry into force celebration!

Go to our Flickr to give a look to the actions that took place around the world: https://www.flickr.com/photos/icanw/sets/72157717990472613/

The monster fire season 2019-2020 saw many million hectares of bush and farmland burnt up and down Australia’s east coast, causing massive losses in wildlife and sweeping damage to natural landscapes made vulnerable through sudden loss of ground cover. Cities were enveloped in a pall of thick yellow smoke throughout January; Lasting health impacts are yet to be fully understood. Direct damage from fires devastated the life of numerous small communities – destruction of farm buildings, fences, and private and public property. At the human level the task of recovery has been slow – people have had to build from the ground up their livelihoods and their health; communities have been a hub for this recovery stepping up months ahead of promised government assistance. 

Through fortuitous circumstances IVP was able to quickly put together a project to bring surplus garden plants, regularly discarded from wholesale nurseries, to affected communities as a quiet gesture of solidarity. First delivery was in July to a coastal village that had been cut off for weeks by fire the previous January – images from the time show residents retreating into shallow water of the nearby lake; to a backdrop of burning bushland. 

The 70 plants we brought disappeared quickly and were gratefully received. We have been working since to reach other communities – supplying several hundred plants to a cluster of small communities further inland, partnering with the local council, and planning to extend our deliveries to coastal areas further south. 

Even though it is approaching a year since the fires, attention to re-establishing a garden from scorched earth and weeds, delayed while makeshift accommodation arranged, can be a link on the path to restored mental health, and revived communities. Our action rested on willing cooperation from one of the largest wholesale nurseries – who supply city garden centres. The rescued plants are tangible ingredients in psychic healing for people who have lost homes and possessions; and communities coming to terms with a succession of calamities: 4 years drought, then fire, then storms then pandemic. The bush fire experience has exposed the sober virtue of walking with people – not just the drama of survival that makes the news, but the months and years for confidence to return.

If you would like to help with this project, please get in touch with David at placements@ivp.org.au or Stephen at admin@ivp.org.au

IVP will be represented at the IVCO conference with Rita Warleigh giving a presentation highlighting 100 years of SCI and our work in the area of climate change and climate justice.  

https://www.ivp.org.au/wp-content/uploads/IVCO2020-Flyer-1-1.pdf