Last year Concordia and many of our overseas partners took part in The Flag Tour 2011.
The Idea….
was for a flag to travel around the world visiting many international
volunteering projects. For 9
months, from March to November
2011, three flags travelled all around the world visiting 60 projects and events of 33 voluntary organisations involving more
than 1600
volunteers. Concordia finished with
the flag in November for our big General Assembly that we hosted in Southampton (the flag is now hung up in our office). The
flag raised awareness of volunteering, The Alliance, promoted international
volunteer projects and ran alongside the European and International Year of the
volunteer 2011.
Concordia
was very much involved in the whole process, from the design of the flag, to
co-ordinating the flag around the world and making sure it didn’t get too lost
(it did disappear a few times and got stuck in customs) but this was all very
much part of its journey!!
Finally we managed to
put all the pictures and comments into a small film.
Enjoy!
