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by Daniella Mobunga Mbikayi Every organization has values, but for Serve the City International, they’re more than just words—they shape everything they do. Compassion. Respect. Courage. Love. [...]

By Mary McColley It was the season of monsoon and mangoes. May 17th: Serve the City Global Volunteer Day, and the launch of the Serve the City branch of the thronging, hawking, roaring, [...]

Peter DeWit had the honour of meeting up at the Cassette Café with Nathanael Koehler who began an incredible football project in Paris with homeless refugees. Each week under the tutelage of [...]

by Peter DeWit I had the recent privilege of visiting the beautiful city of Maastricht and the Serve the City team there. When I arrived it was your typical dutch-January-weather, cold, wet and [...]

by Peter DeWit   No one is ‘just a volunteer.’ People who step up to volunteer are a gift to the world. We are a dedicated group of people committed to causes that speak to our hearts. We are [...]

By Austin Silva Mota Despair is the easiest thing to feel when we look at the world around us: war, famine, wild weather, violations of every kind of freedom. As we serve in our own cities—even [...]

by Jay Benfante When you think of what it means to be courageous certain stories may come to your mind: Stories of great warriors in battle or superhuman heroes fighting against the odds to save [...]

Written by Peter DeWit What on earth were we doing here? Have you heard of this place? I tried getting my bearings as I walked the wet potholed streets on an iron-gray evening to find our meeting [...]

by Peter DeWit Peter DeWit talks with Rene Mally, who sits on the Board of directors for Serve the City International and is passionate about a topic that affects us all, the environment. We all [...]

“It takes courage just to live life in a failed state where gangs rule the territory and bodies lie in the streets. It takes even more courage to think of anyone other than yourself in such [...]

by Peter DeWit Does it ever feel like you have compassion-deficit days or weeks? Hey, don’t beat yourself up about it, you are not alone. It’s all too easy to feel our not [...]

Written by Fianne van Laar In In the Spotlight we shine a light on a member of our global community. We discover who they are, what their role is and their connection with Serve the City. Today, [...]

by Patricia and Peter DeWit I stopped waiting for words to make sense and made it my job to make sense of his words.  “I walk 15 days.”  Eye contact.  Be quiet. He is telling a small part of his [...]

by Peter DeWit Peter: Hi Safi, thanks for letting me interview you on STCP’s Language Exchange. If I remember correctly, your first experience with STC was attending one of our classes at the old [...]

Join in on 8th February 2024 at 19.30 CET for a very special first workshop in a series on Navigating Trauma & Building Resilience. It will be valuable for everyone because we all face tough [...]

by Peter DeWit Maybe the word we need more than any other right now is the word hope. It is good to remind ourselves at the beginning of this year that hope is indeed a strategy. Of course, I am [...]