Dec
10
2017
Founded in 1982, VFP is a non-profit organization offering over 3000 voluntary service opportunities around the world.
Volunteers For Peace (VFP) organizes, promotes and supports voluntary service opportunities in the USA and abroad as an effective means of intercultural education,...
Dec
10
2015
During the summer of 1968, Peter Coldwell, Founder of Volunteers For Peace, participated in international short-term voluntary service projects (workcamps) in Hungary and Czechoslovakia through a program sponsored by the Unitarian-Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) in Boston.
The value of working on...
Dec
07
2015
The idea of International Voluntary Service came from a Swiss pacifist, Pierre Ceresole, following the First World War. Not able to sit idly he searched for the "moral equivalent for war," and the concept of international workcamps was born. He founded...
Oct
16
2015
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For the past four years, the best two weeks of my summer have been the Volunteers for Peace camp at Willowell. What do I look forward...
Oct
16
2015
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By: Maddie Craig
During my last day in the office I am reflecting on my time at Volunteers For Peace (VFP) and how much I have...