History 1920 – 1939
The international voluntary service movement was born in 1920 at a meeting at a school in Bilthoven, Netherlands, appropriately enough named het Werkplaats. A meeting one year earlier had established the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR). Pierre CĂ©rĂ©sole, a Swiss pacifist (see inset), had agreed to be its secretary. This second meeting was to discuss “How …