Just found this information on the SCI International twitter tweet stream uhm thingy thing… :)

If you ever thought about travelling somewhere else and participating for a few months or a whole year in local projects there, gaining experience and working within the SCI family, here might just be your chance :D

To shortly cite the SCI LTEG group on what LTV is about:

What is LTV?

LTV stands for Long Term Volunteering project, which is an exchange of volunteers between SCI branches (and/or partner organizations), where volunteer commits to the project for longer than 1 month. It is open to any volunteer without a limit of age or any other. There is wide variety of projects and you can have a taste of it by taking a look at the Vacancies List here.

All the projects are non-profit and do not aim to replace paid labour in the organization.

As written above, on this website you can now find an updated list of projects, created by the LTEG group within SCI, where you can do long term volunteering. On 80 pages, projects in the following countries are described (ordered roughly as in the pdf):
Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Belgium, Croatia, Great Britain, Moldova, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Palestine, Turkey and USA.

More information on application procedures and requirements can be found over at this LTEG-webpage, including the following quote on who can participate (keep in mind, that this is for the LTV positions, the EVS positions have different requirements):

These are the recommendations for finding suitable volunteers for projects:

• There is a minimum age of 18 for a volunteer becoming a LTV. Volunteers are expected to have a certain amount of “life experience”, meaning that s/he can look after one’s self, work independently and be able to deal with problems that might occur during the time the volunteer is abroad.
• The applicant should be open-minded towards the project and motivated for the WORK of the project (not only a travelling experience).
• The applicant should know what volunteering is about, preferably by having participated in SCI workcamps.
• Preferably the volunteer should be interested in SCI and wants to be involved in the SCI branch of the hosting country (if one exists).
• SCI leaves it to the project to decide about specific requirements, for example age limitations, language skills or other special skills. This is in contrast to workcamps, where special skills are generally not required.

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