International Voluntary Service

CCIVS

www.unesco.org/ccivs

SIW international voluntary projects

SIW organizes international youth voluntary service projects in the Netherlands and sends youth abroad to be part of the same kind of projects all over the world. These are short term (2-3 weeks) and long term (3 or more months) projects. I've been one of the organisers of the Dutch projects.
for more information on SIW: www.siw.nl

From the 28th of december until the 8th of january, I was one of the workcampleaders of the 'Doe Lief Initiatief' (be kind initiative), a SIW workcamp.
You can find more information about this workcamp on www.hugtheworld.net
and the pictures here.
I also made a small movie about the workcamp, a sort of videoclip to a song that a German participant made after the camp. You can download this movie here (32 mb, plays in Quicktime)
Also, we are very proud about the posters were the product of the Loesje workshop during our project. Posters in pdf format
Loesje is an organisation that publishes short one-liners on posters to make people active, think and react on everything that happens around us. www.loesje.org

The Doe Lief initiative appeared in press several times:
a short documentarybywww.nosheadlines.nl
an articlein the local newspaper 'Utrechtse Dagblad'
An article in the magazine 'Onze Wereld' www.onzewereld.nl
page 1 page 2

Doe Lief 2005 - projectreport (pdf-file, in English)

In august 2005, I had my 'premiere' in workcampleadership in the refugee centre of Burgum.

pic's from this workcamp

Burgum 2005 - project report (pdf file, in Dutch)

In March 2005, the organizing group of the Dutch SIW projects went on trip a to Gent (Belgium) Trip pictures
pics of the SIW 2005 projectleader-training