SEARCH / VIEW the WW1 Book of Remembrance (Link to National Library of Wales viewer) Download Printable PDF Booklet Temple Tour – Book of Remembrance (WCIA website – page designed for phone / tablet users) Wales’ Temple of Peace and Health, home of the Welsh Centre for International Affairs and the HLF-funded […]
Volunteer stories – Volunteering with Hub Cymru Africa and Fair Trade Wales
Loeiza and Helene are long-term volunteers at the UNA Exchange office located at the Temple of Peace, Cardiff. They often help other charities also based in the Temple of Peace, such as Hub Cymru Africa and Fair Trade Wales. Discover what they do when they volunteer for these charities! […]
Mercè’s goodbye to Stackpole – Volunteer stories
It is with a heart full of memories that UNA Exchange’s long-term volunteer Mercè has left Stackpole, in West Wales. Read her moving essay on her nine months spent away from her native country, Spain. […]
100 Years of Workcamps – Interview with Chrishan Kamalan
Interview with WCIA trustee Chrishan Kamalan conducted by UNA Exchange 2019/2020 volunteers Helene Chaland and Loeiza Stucker on January 31st 2020. […]
UNA Exchange and WCIA ‘join forces’ for the Future of International Volunteering
Reflecting our shared roots at Wales’ Temple of Peace, the WCIA and UNA Exchange are merging from February 2020. Founded alongside each other in 1973 – to mark the United Nations‘ 25th, and Temple of Peace’s 35th Anniversaries – WCIA and UNA Exchange have always had a close working relationship, […]
100 Years of Workcamps – Interview with Sheila Smith
Interview with Sheila Smith, former Director of UNA Exchange (1988-2016), conducted by UNA Exchange 2019/2020 volunteers Helene Chaland and Loeiza Stucker. […]
8 Quick Read Points on the Historical Opening of the Temple of Peace
1) The Temple of Peace was founded by David DaviesFounded in November 1938, the Temple was conceived by Lord David Davies of Llandinam after his experience serving in the trenches during the First World War. 2) The Temple was opened on the eve of WWII, 23rd November […]
“More in Common” Training in Bala, North Wales
“We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.” – Jo Cox (1974-2016) […]
Abigail’s story – EVS in Moldova
September 2018, I went to Moldova on a European Voluntary Service out of curiosity. I went somewhere to which I would never have ventured, I worked in an international organization (glimpsing some of the realities of foreign aid) and I familiarised myself with a culture I wouldn’t have known of […]
Blog : Ethical shopping at the Temple of Peace
On the 29th of November, the Temple of Peace hosted its first Ethical Christmas Market as an alternative to Black Friday -one of the biggest day of shopping in Britain. It was the perfect moment to rethink our shopping habits. There was something of Christmas in the air – visitors […]