by | Jun 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
On Sunday 23 and Sunday 29 May, SCI present and former volunteers and activists met at a Zoom-up event organised by the 2020 team of SCI. The event, created in the context of the ongoing celebrations of the 100 years anniversary of SCI, was received with enthusiasm by...
by | Mar 29, 2021 | Stories, Uncategorized
The “first workcamp”, started in November 1920 in Esnes, a war-destroyed village in Eastern France near Verdun, continued during the whole winter of 1920 / 21. In March, however, the French authorities ordered to cease all work for the municipality or for government...
by | Jan 23, 2021 | Stories, Uncategorized
by Paul Lafon , 2 September 1962. (Text translated by David Plamer and Greg Wilkinson) Caught between an unhelpful French administration, and growing racial hostility in the country, this task was also to prove impossible. While trying to maintain an S.C.I. presence,...
