Voluntary Workcamps Association of Nigeria

Dear volunteers and friends,

You are coordially invited to our first general meeting of the year, during which we will be discussing;

🔹️VWAN strategic Plan
🔹️Local and International workcamps in 2024
🔹️Opportunities to become involved in projects of your interest
🔹️Recap of activities in 2023

It's promises to not leave aside our usual meet & greet and fun together.

Kindly RSVP here ▶️ https://t.ly/1aj9X
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Looking forward to welcoming you there!

So far, you’ve learned what a workcamp is, what the values are, why you should volunteer and how to apply.

🚀 Now you are ready to explore our ! 👀 Go to https://workcamps.sci.ngo/ and you will have the chance to choose between various volunteering projects related to themes like anti-militarism, antiracism and antifascism, environmentalism, children’s wellbeing, migration, gender equality, disabilities, culture and heritage, community life, ...

If you are passionate about making a positive contribution towards a more peaceful world, you should participate in our workcamps! Stay tuned for many projects to enter your feed in the coming weeks!

✏️Now that you know what workcamps are and why you should participate, it’s time to apply!

How❓ Visit our website and choose the projects that you prefer 👉 https://workcamps.sci.ngo/

Something is still not clear? 💬 The SCI organisation in your country will be able to answer all your questions.

Ready to volunteer for peace?

As we march on in this month of March, lets not forget to look around us, be aware of the soil under our feet and summon the courage uphold and foster peace for all.

☮️ If you firmly believe that we should all do our part to make the world a more equal and peaceful place, workcamps are the right place to put your values into action.

Stay updated for the launch of our season.

🙋 We want workcamps to be open and inclusive to all individuals who share our aims and objectives, without regard to race, gender, faith, nationality, s*xuality, socio-economic background, or any other possible grounds for discrimination.

are coming soon, and we are sure you will find the perfect workcamp for you.

🌪️ Workcamp Season 2024 is coming 

Over the next few weeks, we will be launching our workcamps for 2024, and in order to help you make the best choice, we will tell you all about volunteering in a workcamp.

Are you curious to know:

⚙️ What workcamps are?

🙋 Who can participate?

🌍 Where you can go?

🌱 What you can learn?

☮️ Why you should participate?

✏️ How to apply for a workcamp?

👀 Stay tuned to our social media channels for the next few weeks for the answers to all of your questions! 

You cannot wait? You can already find hundreds of projects and apply on our website 👉 https://workcamps.sci.ngo/

Meet our amazing Director of Projects, Omotayo Lawal, who is attending the Placement Officer Training organised by

We wish her a wonderful experience out there in Bern, Switzerland 🇨🇭

We are very pleased to welcome the new Excos of VWAN who have been elected at the general assembly held in Lagos, December 2023.

Appreciation to all VWAN volunteers for thier unrelenting spirit of service to humanity and continued support over the years, the Excos evermore will be reliant in you as they work to reconsolidate VWAN into its mission.

The Excos are:

●President: Mr Kola Aganran
●Director of Finance: Winifred Ayanda
●Director of Logistics: Regina Ughovwa
●Director of Programmes: Omotayo Adekola
●Internal Auditor: Folashade Lindsay-Ikhianosime
●Information Tech Officer: Oluwatosin Ligali

Wishing you and yours the very best of the next 366days.

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sciint [Workcamp Opportunity] is looking for international volunteers for their workcamp. 💙 The main activities of the workcamp will be ⬇️ 👉Gathering of seeds and making ridges and trenches 👉Planting of varieties of crops and nurturing the plantation 👉Group dynamics and active youth participation 📅 16 July - 29 July 2023 📍 Eruwa, Nigeria ⏰ More Info & Apply 👉 https://shorturl.at/buEH6

VWAN is part of FORGING UBUNTU.
⏳ This week, in Pretoria, South Africa, will take place the first activity of the ‘Forging Ubuntu’ project.
🫱🏾‍🫲🏽The project seeks to strengthen practice among 6 African partner organisations in their work to address vulnerabilities stemming from inequalities and in their respective communities.
🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏾 14 participants from Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Mozambique are coming together this week to enhance leadership, promote gender equality in our different realities and share permaculture and workcamp practices

Follow us for updates on this training and the follow-up actions to come !

Meet our volunteer Germany Federal Volunteer, Yemisi Alani 🤝🏽

Yemisi departed Nigeria 2weeks ago to begin her 13 volunteer service in Germany with . Yemisi will be working at the .gmbh Hainbachtal gGmbH Project in Offenbach am Main

On her first impressions arriving in Germany, yemisi has this to say.

"I only had a single sided story of the Germans being “Strict” before coming here. I was not too concerned about every other thing other than time management – as I need to take out the ‘African-time’ mentality to enable me cope and work efficiently.
As expected, I met with my fears eyeballs-to-eyeballs with the German Transportation system. But with the proper orientation given by my host
organization, I’m not doing badly with catching the trains.
These first few days of work have been super relaxing as I think my colleagueshave made working so easy and are not rushing me in any way at all.

Lastly, the language barrier is there, but I’ve remained open-minded, I am
beginning to speak common and simple sentences and will continue to develop my German language skills in my time here.

Danke schön"

We wish the very best in her new adventures.

4change Workcamp ended the first week on a great note, closing with open workshops on the topics of , and

A big and safe return to all the volunteers involved 👏🏽👏👏🏿

[Happening Now]
for change in Nigeria.

Volunteers are at the fulcrum of change particularly in the grassroots. Just as Housenia from joins Philip from to coordinate 2wks workcamp on climate and gender, while working to raise the foundations of a volunteer hub in Eruwa.