How Catalan volunteers celebrate Saint George’s Day around the world?
23 April is UNESCO World Book and Sant Jordi (Saint George’s Day), the love and literature day massively celebrated all over Catalonia. Many groups of Catalan people living abroad are organizing different non-profit activities.
#CookForSyria, the campaign to increase awareness of plight of refugee children
The initiative was launched by the London based blogger Clerkenwell Boy and SUITCASE Magazine to raise money for UNICEF’s Syria Relief fund.
Amnesty International sees the risk of xenophobic speech against human rights as spreading
The international organisation has published its Annual Report for 2016/2017, with particular emphasis on hate speech, which it claims could give rise to fear and division.
Opportunities for young people to volunteer in the European Solidarity Corps
More than 24,000 youngsters have already registered online to be part of a solidarity-related project.
Will your city be the next European Volunteering Capital?
CEV calls for applications for the European Volunteering Capital Competition 2019.
Cohousing around the world: from Denmark to Catalonia
The global movement of collective housing is a model based on communities of individuals living together in a cooperative way.
#GirlsCount Campaign is looking for 130 million voices for the education of girls
130 million girls won’t go to school today. Not because they do not want to, but because they do not have the opportunity. The campaign seeks to sound an alarm, urging all state governments to mobilize resources to get all girls to attend school.
5 best practices for nonprofit organisations on the social media
Many nonprofit organisations are on the social media and use new tools and strategies to improve communication. Live streaming of Catalan human towers on Facebook Live, hashtags that become a trending topic… here we bring to you just a few of them!
The Free Listening Day: volunteers listening to people’s problems
Urban Confessional organises an event to be hosted in cities around the US and abroad. At the moment they already have 2000 US-based volunteers.
Monitoring the reception of refugees to improve European integration policies
The NIEM project aims to improve the integration outcomes of beneficiaries of international protection.
Doctors Without Borders reports that Eritrean refugees are dying en route to Europe
The humanitarian organisation has claimed that the EU collaborates with the government of Eritrea and other countries to stop them from reaching Europe.
5 platforms for worldwide digital volunteering
Online volunteering puts NGOs and communities in contact to carry out tasks thanks to one vital tool: an internet connection.