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World Refugee Day
20 June 2021
World Day Against Human Trafficking
30 July 2021
International Youth Day
12 August 2021
STC Day of Courage in Action
18 September 2021
World Homeless Day
10 October 2021
World Kindness Day
13 November 2021
World Volunteer Day
5 December 2021
Serving Stories – Episode 2.1 – Respect is given, not earned
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, [...]
To Serve A City
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 [...]
The Honour of Leading Volunteers
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 [...]
World Refugee Day Contest in Serve the City Paris
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 [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 06 – Around the World
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! [...]
COVID Kindness – Episode 03 – Compassion, Courage and Coronavirus
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 [...]
Global Volunteer Day 2020: A Review
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, [...]
COVID Kindness – Episode 02 – Do What You Do Best.
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 [...]
COVID Kindness – Episode 01 – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
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 [...]
Kindness Challenge 2020
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 [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 5.2 – Brussels, BE
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 [...]
COVID Kindness – Kindness Will Not Be Cancelled
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 [...]
Kindness will not be cancelled
All over the world meetings are cancelled. Events are cancelled. Trips are cancelled. But a virus, even a pandemic, cannot cancel the most important stuff of life. Kindness is open for business [...]
Volunteer Voices: Stories from our Volunteers
We at Serve the City are so happy to have many hard-working volunteers from various walks of life with quite a few amazing stories! As we face a period when serving and volunteering is starting [...]
Serving Stories – Episode 5.1 – Brussels, BE
In this episode (part one of two), we travel to Brussels, Belgium to see how a simple, early-morning project—serving breakfast to irregular migrants and asylum seekers—draws on compassion to cut [...]