What is a Workcamp?
The workcamp method was invented in 1920 after the First World War to bring together soldiers from previously opposing armies to carry out post war reconstruction work. In the next 25 there was a lot of experimentation with disaster relief, social-environmental, and third world developmental projects, with different numbers of people over different periods of time, until the modern workcamp formula was finally perfected. By the 1940¹s the workcamp movement had grown so much that it achieved UN recognition with the creation of the Co-ordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS) in 1948. Since the 1930¹s the workcamp movement has steadily grown to a global scale adapting to new aims for sustainable development, national independence, racial equality and ecological protection. The global workcamp movement is now active in over 90 countries. Workcamps typically bring together a temporary community of 10-20 international volunteers from different backgrounds to provide s
