Forum Stories: A Weekend in Krakow
Written by Maxwell Taylor My first time traveling to Krakow Poland will always have a special place in my heart. While attending Serve the City’s annual international forum, I met a ‘boat load’ [...]
Mental Health and Substance Abuse: A Growing Connection
An Interview with Nyati Annette Queenie, CEO, LivingPlus Haven Uganda, STC Volunteer 1. Could you tell us about your research in Mental Health? I titled it “Substance-related [...]
Let’s Look After Each Other A Little More
by Greet de Rechter, NOAH coordinator at STC Maastricht Maastricht is a beautiful city in the south of the Netherlands. The people are doing well, as it seems. However, behind the front door, in [...]
The Academy of Change
by Ronan Coffey In 2022 Serve the City Lisbon, Serve the City Paris and Serve the City Dublin all agreed to participate in an EU Funded Erasmus project with the intention to increase the level of [...]
Serving Across Borders: From Paris to Kenya
By Vivian Ambasa Alubai On May 20th, 2023, STCP organized a fundraising event to support orphanages in Kenya. On August 22nd, I traveled to Kenya to purchase essential items for the children [...]
One Year Volunteering in Paris
by Safiullah Ebrahim Volunteering is well-known and worthy in France. Based on statistics, one out of every four French citizens volunteers at some point in time. There are many reasons that [...]
Serving Together in STC Gold Coast
by Hazel Lincy Ebenezer and Matilde Newman . We are so excited to celebrate Serve the City Gold Coast’s first event, which took place on Saturday, 26th of August. For this successful first [...]
Part-Time Website Administrator/Developer & Microsoft 365 Account Manager
Serve the City (STC) International is seeking a qualified individual to join our Digital Infrastructure team as a Website Administrator/Developer and Microsoft 365 Account Manager. This part-time [...]
Your Compassion Reinvigorated
by Peter DeWit We were almost at the makeshift refugee camp when a homeless man asked us for some coffee and food. We were happy to oblige him, but when he saw the new shoes in my bag, he got a [...]
Moving Forward: STC Mental Health Awareness Week
From the 10th to the 16th of July 2023, STC International had its first-ever Mental Health Awareness Week. Moving forward and learning from the success of this week, we are excited to share more [...]
Big Volunteer Weeks in June: From Timisoara to Mostar
In June, our Serve the City community saw two Big Volunteer Weeks taking place – one in Romania and the other in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To know a little more about these events, we went [...]
Join Our Mental Health Awareness Week
Serve the City is hosting its first-ever Mental Health Awareness Week from July 10th to July 16th, 2023. With an aim to break the silences around mental health and to create awareness on the [...]
Serve the City Collaboration with UPS Foundation Europe
Serve the City International partnered with UPS Foundation Europe to reinforce our volunteer impact and make a difference to the lives of those we care for in our cities! 130 UPS staff members [...]
Serve the City Timisoara: A Story 25 Years in the Making
by Carlton Deal In the late 90s, I was a youth leader in Geneva, Switzerland, and I brought a team of international school students to serve in an orphanage in Lugoj, Romania. It was a very [...]
Royal Honour in the Netherlands
On Tuesday, 16 May, Brigitte Vonck-Makkinje – the founder and city leader of Serve the City Amsterdam – was awarded an honour by the King of the Netherlands for her leadership and [...]
Celebrating GVD 2023 🎉
This year, Global Volunteer Day was celebrated in over 18 cities across 5 continents. From STC Peninsula to STC Accra, from Geneva to the Philippines, from Limerick to Oeiras and so many more [...]