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On the 26th of June, Serve the City Amsterdam had its Big Volunteer Day.   This event included painting, gardening, haircuts, making pancakes for the homeless, and much more. The volunteers [...]

by Peter DeWit (Peter is the volunteer programs and events director of Serve the City Paris. As a unique and dynamic community, Serve the City International is excited to share the independent [...]

"Small people doing small things together can make a big difference." Meet Lucy, the 11 year old daughter of the Serve the City Baltimore director, Erin. Lucy has been volunteering for half her [...]

Partager By Mary McColley We were walking familiar paths. It was a Saturday distribution walk like so many before, and my group was headed towards the gare de Lyon, the high clock tower and—more [...]

In this episode of Serving Stories, we travel to Krakow, Poland to see how volunteers are showing respect to the homeless this Christmas season. We also voyage to Brussels, Belgium and Nairobi, [...]

by Mary McColley, Serve the City Paris The sky wears a grey mantle of clouds and the sidewalk is tracked with the black aftermath of rain as I walk towards la Caféothèque, rue de l’Hôtel de [...]

Written by Peter DeWit of Serve the City Paris One of the best parts of leading a Serve the City initiative is seeing volunteers enthusiastically join in. It’s been almost three years that [...]

Across the world, Serve the City celebrated World Refugee Day on the 20th of June through various projects, collaborations, and posts. Serve the City Paris joined the diverse projects on this day [...]

For the year 2020, Serve the City chose as their theme, "Kindness Starts with Me." Little did they know how the events of this year would draw of the creativity on volunteers in showing kindness! [...]

It's been a more than a good idea to stay inside during the COVID outbreak in Brussels— it's the law. But some residents have found that there are some important humanitarian reasons to venture [...]

On Saturday May 9th, Serve the City had its third annual Global Volunteer Day. Serve the City is a global movement of volunteers showing kindness in personal ways to people in need. Every year, [...]

As we revisit the first four cities in Season 1 — Lisbon, Chesapeake, Berlin and Tallinn — we find out that agility is everything. In each city, we discover how the expertise, partnerships, and [...]

Serve the City Dublin team members tell stories of volunteers welcoming and comforting people at a COVID testing site, and delivering groceries and prescriptions to vulnerable people isolated in [...]

STCi Social Media Challenge #KindnessStartsWithMe let it #GoThrival! Hello Serve the City the globe over, Challenge the world in with our social media challenge! In these days of isolation and [...]

In this episode (part 2 of 2), a simple project serving breakfast to migrants in a park turns into a city-wide humanitarian effort. And in the process, it changes not only the lives of migrants [...]

Kindness will not be cancelled! Events are cancelled, meetings are cancelled, but Serve the City believes that kindness is open for business and the shelves are stocked floor to ceiling with [...]