Servas International ("we serve (peace)" in Esperanto) is a non-profit organization providing a hospitality exchange service.

It was founded in 1949,[2] in the aftermath of World War II, by Bob Luitweiler and other Danish students as an international network for people to meet and where suitable, to be offered a short stay, as part of the peace movement.

Outside of Stockholm, on the way back from Helsinki, I visited a work camp for peace where Gertraud Hertling, a German student volunteer sowed the first seed of Servas.

A shapely girl with a ready smile, she said in excellent English, "You cannot imagine how isolated the German youth are.

He told me at great length and in the strongest reactionary terms how terrible the Swedish Socialist government was.

This young man had gotten the most biased picture of Sweden possible from the reactionary rich host family he had been placed with for the summer, by a well known international student exchange program.

Servas was founded in 1949,[2] in the aftermath of World War II, by Bob Luitweiler and other Danish students as an international network for people to meet and where suitable, to be offered a short stay, as part of the peace movement.

Australia General Secretary: Kiat Yun Tan  Malaysia Peace Secretary: Paige LaCombe  USA SI Internal Audit Committee L V Subramanian  India Phyllis Chinn,  USA Gülsen Elyak,  Turkey SI Development Committee (5) Lilly Kerekes Beltran,  Mexico Ewa Dzierzawska,  Poland Fidele Rutayisire,  Rwanda Pablo Colangelo,  Argentina Pamela Yang,  Taiwan SI Youth and Families Committee (5) Susana Martinez,  Spain Raffaella Rota,  Italy Natasha Noreen,  Italy Aneris Cao,  Chile Mar Ferre,  Spain SI Distant Vote Administrator Chris Patterson,  New Zealand SI President: Jonny Sågänger (Sweden)  Sweden SI Vice President: Ann Greenhough (Britain)  United Kingdom SI General Secretary: Penny Pattison  Canada SI Treasurer: LV Subramanian  India SI Peace Secretary: Danielle Serres  France SI Host List Coordinator: Pablo Colangelo  Argentina Development Committee: Audit committee Servas International Archivist Conflict Resolution Committee: Nomination Committee: SI Job Descriptions and Statutes Committee: Distant Vote Administrator: Chris Patterson  New Zealand Youth Leadership Committee: SI President: Jonny Sågänger (Sweden)  Sweden SI Vice President: Ann Greenhough (Britain)  United Kingdom SI General Secretary: Jaime Romero  Colombia SI Treasurer: Miroslaw Wasilewski  Poland SI Peace Secretary: Danielle Serres  France SI Host List Coordinator: Arnoud Philippo  Netherlands President: Gary Sealey,  Canada Vice President: Pramod Kumar, USA General Secretary: Penny Pattison  Canada Treasurer: Miroslaw Wasilewski,  Poland Host List Coordinator: Pablo Colangelo,  Argentina Peace Secretary: Kim Jong Soo,  South Korea Finance Committee Conflict Resolution Committee Nominations Committee Newsletter Editor Archivist: Youth Development Officer Youth Coordinator: Job Description/Statutes Committee Distant Vote Administrator President: Gary Sealey,  Canada Vice President: Mary Jane Mikuriya,  USA General Secretary: Pramod Kumar, India Treasurer: Ömer Özkan,  Turkey Host List Coordinator: Anna Flammini,  Italy Peace Secretary: Nanda,  Sri Lanka President: Geoff Maltby,  Australia Vice President: Bibendra Pradhananga,    Nepal General Secretary: Honora Clemens, USA Treasurer: Ömer Özkan,  Turkey Host List Coordinator: Claudio Pacchiega,  Italy Peace Secretary: Gary Sealey,  Canada President: Roger Martin,  Norway Vice President: Bibendra Pradhananga,    Nepal General Secretary: Frits Stuurman,  Netherlands Treasurer: Gyöngyver Kudor,  Hungary Host List Coordinator: Laura Ragucci,  Argentina Peace Secretary: Marco Kappenberger, West  Samoa Treasurers (Audit) Committee: Appeals Committee: Development Fund Committee Complaints Committee Nominations Committee Job Descriptions Committee President: Chris Slader  UK Treasurer: Gilbert Revault  France Vice President: Bertrand Bailleul  France General Secretary: Kevin Newham  Australia Peace Secretary: Daniele Passalacqua  Italy Assistant General Secretary and Host List Co-ordinator: Claudia Pinto  Brazil Servas International Newsletter Editor: Sharon Beldon  Netherlands President: Chris Slader  UK Vice President: Jenny Durand  France General Secretary: Vibeke Matorp  Denmark Treasurer: Hazel Barham  UK

General Secretary: Yvonne BROWN  New Zealand President: Don FAWCETT  USA Vice-president: Duncan MEIKLE  Canada Treasurer: Peter Brock  Germany Editor SI Nwesletter: Frede ASGAARD  Denmark Area Coordinators EUROPE: ULLA OFFER  Germany AFRICA: E.K.

Reva King  USA Maria Soresina  Italy BARBARA WHITEHEAD  England President: Don Fawcett  USA Vice President: Maria Soresina  Italy General Secretary: Kay Lazaruz  USA Treasurer: Peter Brock  Germany Peace Secretary: Jo Graham  USA Editor, Servas International News: Janine Hall  France Assistant General Secretary: Lino Bugeja  Malta Regional Coordinator, Africa: Zeru Michael (Africa) Regional Coordinator, SE Asia: Takashi Aoki  Japan Regional Coordinator, N America & Caribbean: Rodrigue Aristide  Guadeloupe Regional Coordinator, Europe & Near East: Antonie Fried  West Germany Regional Coordinator, Southern Asia: Harivallabh Parikh  India Regional Coordinator, South Pacific: Nan Smith  Australia Coordinator for South America: Jorge Zoppolo  Uruguay President: Graham Thomas Vice President: Don Fawcett USA General Secretary: Barbara Whitehead Assistant General Secretary Denise Waech   Switzerland Peace Secretary: Reva King USA Editor Servas International: News Rosalind Schama Treasurer: Denise Waech   Switzerland Regional Co-ordinators Africa: Lydia Jones Southern Asia: Harivallabh Parikh  India Southeast Asia: Kunio Tanaka  Japan South Pasific: Nan Smith South America: Jorgo Zoppolo  Uruguay North America&Carabian : Kay Lazarus Europe and Near East: Antonio Fried President: Graham Thomas  United Kingdom Treasurer: Doris Bucher   Switzerland S.I.N.

Treasurer: Denise Waech   Switzerland The following positions were filled by ballot General Secretary: Barbara Whitehead  United Kingdom Vice-president: Martha Simon  USA Asst.

: Reva King  USA Peace Secretary: Konrad Lübbert  Germany Regional Co-ordinators wore appointed us follows: Africa: Lydia Jones Europe: Antonie Fried  Germany South America: Narcelo Lorenzo South Pacific: John and Judy Ebner Southeust Asia: Masuo Amano  Japan Southern Asia: Harivallabh Parikh  India President: Reva King  USA Vice President: Harivallabh Parikh India Treasurer: Denise Vollenweider   Switzerland Asst.

Editor: Martha Simon  USA Resource: SI NEWS #03 President & International Coordinator: Kurt Schmid  Austria Vice President & Ass't International Coordinator: Reva King  USA Treasurer: Denise Vollenweider   Switzerland Ass't Treasurer: Swiss Servas member to be appointed by Denise Vollenweider Secretary: Birgitte Damsgaard Vice Secretary Maria Soresina Peace Secretary: Jim Ryding Editor of International Newsletter: Maria Soresina Regional Coordinators: Europe: Denise Vollenweider Africa: Titus Mugavana North America: Reva King  USA Latin America Laura Langagne South Pacific Max Hartin The.

The following persons will handle the development of SERVAS in these countries: Harivallabh Parikh  India—Afghanistan, Ceylon, Australia, Kenya, and Ethiopia Benelux—Indonesia Sweden—Finland and Iceland Barbara Trischuk  United Kingdom - Tanzania and Fiji Joseph Girard  France -~Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia International Coordinator—Eastern Europe Founders of Servas were those dedicated people like Bob Luitweiler, Connie Thorpe, Esma Burrough and the others in the Birmingham, England Peace Builder's team, and, Esther Harlan in California.

[11] 1952  Germany Hamburg First Peace Builders International Conference, Out of which came the name "Servas" [12] In 2025 the SIGA will be held in Dijon, France, October 3–9.