📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The center of Florennes is an open center for asylum-seekers. The residents of the centre benefit from social and material assistance and medical care during the waiting period of their application for asylum (in order to be recognized as a refugee). The center hosts 580 people from various origins. This number is twice more than last year. In fact, Belgium has seen the number of asylum seekers increase strongly this year. The staff has to manage much more people, with the same financial means than before...
The aim of the workcamp is to propose new activities to the residents of the centre during school holidays, and to promote intercultural dialogue.
💼 What the programme involves
The work will consist mainly in organizing activities for children, youth and adults living in the center. The workcamp will end with a closing activity (show, exhibition, party…) that will be defined together with the center staff in the first week.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation in group in 2 big rooms of the center. The volunteers will live in the same conditions as the residents: they will share their food, their toilets, etc. Those conditions are quite basic.
📍 About the location
Florennes is a village located in the South of Belgium, 1 hour from Charleroi, in a rural area.
⚠️ Requirements
For volunteers motivated by organizing activities for kids. Volunteers with skills in sport or art are particularly welcome. The workcamp can be psychologically tiring (proximity of 580 persons). For your information, the budget granted to the Centers were drastically reduced in 2014. Volunteers are then encouraged to realize activities at a lower cost and bring material with them.
ℹ️ Additional information
Motivation letter required. Moreover, volunteers will eat the same food than the residents. The budget for the food is very restricted what can be an issue for some volunteers (very simple food, not very various). Please take some food with you if you think it can be a problem.Not accessible to wheelchairs.
Only for volunteers from 20 years old
For more information on the center: http://fedasil.be/fr/center/florennes