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Help Dipta Get Back on His Feet Donation link Dipta was forced to flee his home in Bangladesh and is now rebuilding his life in Paris. While he works through the long process of French paperwork [...]

During a recent pair program, a conversation stayed with me and led me into a moment of reflection. We spoke about how, in the parts of South Asia that we come from, family ties are described [...]

“How Illiterate Afghan Refugees Integrate into French Society” was the title of a paper I wrote to obtain my diploma in Social Action & Migration from the Catholic Institute of Paris. In this [...]

Our volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come to us from the four corners of the globe, different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, but the one thing they all share is a desire to help. They [...]

On August 29th, STCP organized a full-day program for more than 180 students from IES Abroad Paris, combining two workshops with a refugee camp simulation. In the first workshop, Journey to [...]

Serve the City recently hosted its annual Fête de la Musique celebration—and for the first time, the festivities took place at our new Impact Café! The evening was a resounding success, filled [...]

You sit on the splintered wooden picnic table and nurse a pint of blonde. You look at the canal Saint-Martin and you squint in the afternoon sun on the water and the white sand of Paris Plages. [...]

⚽ Celebrating Les Gars de la Ville | End of season Picnic, Tournament and Reflections 🎉 This past Sunday, we wrapped up the Serve the City Paris Sport & Culture Program’s fotoball [...]

Since opening IMPACT Café & Coworking, Serve The City Paris has been able to host many more corporate and university clients each week. Just in the last month, UPS, Amazon, S&P Global, [...]

    We are thrilled to share that Serve the City Paris has received the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) Quality Label! This is a big step forward that we have been working on for nearly [...]

Our volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come to us from the four corners of the globe, different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, but the one thing they all share is a desire to help. They [...]

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of Serve the City Paris Youth Talks—an inspiring new initiative designed to give young people a global platform to share ideas worth spreading. The first [...]

A Lifelong Drive to Serve Others    When I was younger and people asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would answer, “I want to help people.” That desire has always stayed with me. Over [...]

Windows4Peace – A Window to Inspire Peace Paris, April 26 – Impact Café, 67 rue Beaubourg Peace Museum Paris officially launched its Windows4Peace initiative with an evening of conversation, [...]

Our volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come to us from the four corners of the globe, different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, but the one thing they all share is a desire to help. They [...]

To support our beneficiaries—asylum seekers, refugees, and young adult immigrants—in discovering organizations that can help them enter the job market, and to introduce our volunteers to active [...]

Serve the City Refugee Football Team -Les Gars de Ville This past month, the Sport and Culture program celebrated two exciting milestones! First, our dedicated volunteer staff attended the [...]

CSR SPOTLIGHT: Creating Purpose-Driven Partnerships & Real Impact in Paris By Pari Aryafar After being a volunteer with Serve the City Paris since the start of 2024, I stepped into the [...]

Two months have passed since we launched our new ‘IMPACT Café & Coworking’ space.  Nothing makes me happier than to report on it’s success so far!   After 3 years of searching for the [...]

This  month our SAVE program members and volunteers where able to participated in a fascinating workshop hosted by Valentina Lana, a professor at SciencePo Paris teaching a course  « The Fight [...]

Sharmila “Sam” Wijeyakumar has dedicated her life to combating human trafficking and supporting those affected by this pervasive global crime. As a survivor of trafficking herself, Sharmila has [...]

Serve the City Language Exchange Program in 2025! by Safiullah EBRAHIM STCP begins the new year with a unique opportunity to build meaningful cultural connections while helping participants [...]

Volunteer Spotlight – Gustav Our volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come to us from the four corners of the globe, different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, but the one thing they [...]

Where are you from? How long have you been in Paris? I am from Pakistan, I came to Paris five and a half years ago for study purposes and after finishing my Master’s in Business Analysis and [...]

A Cross-Border Collaboration for Women in need: Knackpunkt27 and Serve the City Following last month’s feature on Serve the City Paris’ women-only soup kitchen, we are delighted to shine a [...]

People On The Street: Christmas Time By Markela Ndocaj Homelessness is a socially systematic problem that keeps affecting more and more people, still today. The European Union itself counts a [...]

Volunteer Spotlight – Jenny Our volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come to us from the four corners of the globe, different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, but the one thing they [...]

Refugee Profile- Mamadou by Sarah Sherman Meet Mamadou, a 16-year-old refugee in France with a remarkable journey. Born and raised in a small village called Télimélé in the Fouta Djallon [...]

Meet Sama of Sharabeek Crochet by Giuliana Salerno I first met Sama and was introduced to Sharabeek at the Serve the Women’s fundraiser where she shared her art and taught children, adults and [...]

 Serve the Women Fundraiser by Markela Ndocaj  On November 10th, 2024 STCP’s Serve The Women project pioneered by Anja, hosted a fundraising event with the support of Fonds Citoyen Franco – [...]

The Sport and Culture Program Since March, Serve the City Paris has been running the Sport and Culture Program, with a simple but profound mission: to provide unaccompanied minors with weekly [...]

 The Berlin Forum Trip by Tom Wilscam Members of the Serve The City Leadership traveled to Berlin, Germany this year for the Serve The City International Forum. Over a 3 day period, the team [...]

Serve the City Launches Women-Only Soup Kitchen in Paris: Addressing the Hidden Struggles of Homeless Women  Paris is a city known for its beauty, culture, and vibrant life, but hidden within its [...]

Interview with Sami by Christobelle Grierson-Ryrie Samiullah (Sami) Kharodae was born in the northern province of Bahglan in Afghanistan. He speaks five languages in total: Pashtu, Dare, Urbu, [...]

CSR September PROGRAM  by Kevin Jarussi September has been a busy month for CSR at Serve the City. We had the privilege of working with students from EF Gap Year. Over the course of five events, [...]

STCP Football Registration Kick-off by Nathanael Koehler As you may have seen in past newsletters, Serve the City Paris launched its Sport and Culture Project in March of this year, providing [...]

Serve The City created a ‘flash mob’ to protest what is happening in Paris with the government moving the homeless outside the Périphérique during the Olympic games. A group of STCP volunteers [...]

On behalf of the STCP Sport and Culture Program, we would like to congratulate one of our favorites, Sylla Issiaga, for receiving his formal recognition as an unaccompanied minor (MNA) by the [...]

Our volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come to us from the four corners of the globe, are of different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, but the one thing they all share is a desire to [...]

A few days before the event, I saw a comic on Instagram. In it, a kid asks his mother to buy him a bubble-making machine. The mother rejects the idea since they lack the funds. Her son accepts it [...]

I found STCP after my first year in Paris. Desiring to put my free time to good use, STCP was my first experience venturing out to serve my community directly — face to face, hand to hand. My [...]

Join us for the Serve The City Paris annual Fête de la Musique Street Party 2024, with eating, dancing, singing and a raffle for our community of volunteers and friends. WHEN: Friday, June 21st, [...]

On May 19th, Serve the City Paris gathered athletes and enthusiastic spectators alike in its first ‘STCP Olympics day’! The afternoon, in collaboration with partner associations and local [...]

Our volunteers are a diverse bunch. They come to us from the four corners of the globe, different ethnicities, ages, genders, religions, but the one thing they all share is a desire to help. They [...]

Peter: Hi Safi, thanks for letting me interview you on STCP’s Language Exchange. If I remember correctly, your first experience with STC was attending one of our classes at the old CEP building. [...]

Fête des Enfants  Following the success of last year, a group of STCP volunteers will participate in the Fête de Enfants Sunday May 26th on the Canal de l’Ourcq. The event, organized by the [...]

STCP’s New Initiative to Help Young Immigrants: the Find Work program According to the OECD, 12% of the French population are foreign-born. However, this does not include all the children of [...]

A Testimonial from Henock: the Football Club! Oui, grand merci à vous et à toute l’équipe STCP, car vous nous donnez l’assurance de mouiller le maillot pour cette équipe. Nous sommes [...]

To Be A Changemaker: Logan Being a change-agent means actively engaging in initiatives and actions that contribute to positive transformation in society. It involves recognizing existing [...]

STCP’s Participation in Eid Event Eid is an Arabic concept signifying a moment of happiness. It can be a birthday (« عید المیلاد Eid el milad »), a nation’s founding anniversary (« عيد [...]

Taking a look at Mother Nature, she has never seemed so distressed: Devastating fires, flash floods, mudslides, famines, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and all that extreme weather. We’ve [...]

This month, STCP would like to feature STCP volunteer ‘Katrina Culshaw’. Katrina joined the S.A.V.E program last December. After moving to Paris in September, she was saddened by the number of [...]

Nowruz, which means ‘new day,’ marks the beginning of Spring and the lunar year in the Persian calendar. People in Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Iran, Tajikistan, and certain [...]

We are thrilled to share the highlights from our recent event with EY, where we were joined by a group of highly motivated volunteers. Their enthusiasm and dedication truly made the day special, [...]

This edition we are proud to highlight the Capstone Project, courtesy of Nate. Nate connected his passion for volunteering with his sports background and created a Sunday Sports Program where [...]

In my eyes, being a change-making agent means being an active participant in the workings of social life. It means being committed to open-mindedness and constantly searching for ways to enlarge [...]