The volunteers from AIC-Madagascar support primarily children who are not in school and their mothers. They set up preschool centres, organise educational support to get children back into state school and provide a daily meal at the centres’ canteens. They also offer scholarships to young students to allow them to access higher education. Another service […]
“Thanks to the sewing machine, I don’t feel such a big void anymore, I don’t feel the depression I have suffered since I lost my daughter.” In Colombia, 150,000 people are displaced each year because of the armed conflicts affecting the country. 95% of them are living below the poverty line. Many of them are […]
The Feast day of our founder celebrated on this 27 September brings us together as AIC volunteers from around the globe, who all pursue the same objective of working with those living in poverty to build a fairer world. Let’s make this day a celebration that we share with those we support, the other AIC […]
The success of the AIC Diploma in Latin America was evident from the enthusiastic participation of a significant number of AIC volunteer groups and the new projects that many of them subsequently implemented. The AIC Diploma was offered to the 22 AIC national associations in Latin America and more than 500 volunteers there successfully completed the programme. Motivated […]
On Sunday 12th June 2016, more than 50 friends and supporters of AIC got up early to participate in a bird-watching walk organized by the AIC International Secretariat. On the agenda for the morning: a 3.5 hour walk through fields and forests around Grez-Doiceau in Belgium. Enthusiastic guides allowed the participants to observe different birds, […]
As part of their annual meeting of April 14, 2016, the volunteers from the Liguria region (AIC Italy) participated in a regional training day entitled “Growing together by valuing our strengths”. This gave them the chance to discover and experience the “Facilitator Method”, a way of behaving and of bringing out people’s strengths to help them solve the […]
The AIC Asian Regional Conference took place in Tagaytay City in the Philippines from April 6 to April 8. It was attended by 26 AIC volunteers from 7 countries: Cambodia (2), Indonesia (4), Laos (2), Philippines (8), Taiwan (3), Thailand (3) and Vietnam (4). Each association presented its work and activities. AIC International’s representatives Aliette […]
