Vicky Lovelock

Vicky Lovelock has been the Director of CCIVS (The Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service) since 2013. She discovered International Voluntary Service (IVS) in 2003 when she joined a one-year EVS project deep in a French forest with La Croisée des Regards (partner of Solidarités Jeunesses). The project had a profound impact on her, and Vicky never left the world of IVS. She continued to volunteer at the National Office of Solidarités Jeunesses in Paris, participated in workcamps in Palestine with IPYL, which deepened her commitment to social justice and peacebuilding efforts, and then moved to Argentina, where she helped develop and eventually direct Subir al Sur, an organization working with youth groups in remote areas of Argentina, while also actively collaborating with local associations for the protection of animals.

In 2013, Vicky returned to France as the Director of La Croisée des Regards and later became the Director of CCIVS. She also served as an elected member of the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee, gaining valuable insights into the inner workings of the international organization. Vicky has experienced nearly every level of the volunteer sector—as a volunteer, facilitator, local host, and general coordinator—and has witnessed first-hand the transformative power of volunteering on the lives of young people.

Always seeking to connect local actions to global impacts and fostering a deep connection to the natural world, Vicky co-founded La Lisière an associative forest school in the Perigord Vert, where international Service Civique volunteers engage in activities that ensure children are connected to the world beyond their forest community.