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Volunteer workcamps |
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The volunteer workcamps originated in Europe more than 85 years ago. The first international volunteer project took place in 1920 near Verdun (France) on the place of a former battlefield from the World War I. The first volunteers were former military persons from France and Germany (only 4 years earlier over 1.000.000 French and German soldiers were killed in the Verdun battle). The volunteers built homes for refugees and locals. The ideas of this first volunteer project, reconciliation and creation of a new world, inspired "the volunteer movement" to grow to worldwide dimensions.
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The beginning of the workcamps