BelRefugees
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About the project
BelRefugees
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
BelRefugees is an organization that helps refugees in Belgium. They are a space for meeting new people and they coordinate individual and collective initiatives regarding migratory concerns. As much as possible, they welcome refugees unconditionally and provide them with information, training and assistance. They organise shelter for refugees in voluntary Belgian citizens’ homes. They are convinced that true understanding of others can only happen through getting to know them. This is experienced by the volunteers and the host families, as well as their guests, and it is the reason for the success of the project. They have multiple projects like the Café Monde and a charity shop, which provides free clothes. For more info : https://www.bxlrefugees.be/.
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will work five days a week. Fridays and Sundays are free days. Four days a week, they will work at the Café Monde where they will help with cooking and inventory. They will also organize daily activities with the assistants. During the week the volunteer will take part in the Chill Afternoon (board games afternoon). A collective meal is organized every Saturday at noon. They will help with cooking and activities during this meal as well.
🏠 Accommodation on site
(Depending on your program)
- AVS program (Host family)
Host family :Pierre De Hanscutter (director of SVI)
Address: Rue des Artisans 12, Louvain-la-Neuve - Other program :
Host family : Pierre De Hanscutter (director of SVI)
Address: Rue des Artisans 12, Louvain-la-Neuve
shared bedroom
Wifi
The Gîte Mozaïk : extra fee 27€ per night
includes breakfast
shared bedroom
wifi
🍲 Food
- AVS program:
The program will provide pocket money, 6€ per day for the whole month (174€ from your host family) and you will also be provided food from the host family and be able to cook in their kitchen for yourself. - Other program :
You will have to buy groceries and cook for yourself. The accommodation at Mozaïk does not provide you a kitchen but you will have the possibility to use the SVI’s kitchen during your volunteering.
📍 About the location
Located 30 km from Brussels in the heart of Walloon Brabant, the site of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve welcomes over 20,000 students in its eleven faculties. Created in 1971 by the university, this city is one of the youngest in Europe. A city in the countryside, it offers an exceptional living environment to students, researchers, professors and inhabitants. Museums, cinemas, theaters, concert and exhibition halls, a swimming pool and sports center, restaurants and cafés, shops and green spaces: all contribute to the quality of its environment. Its entirely pedestrianized urban center allows easy access to all academic buildings and provides an environment where students, researchers, professors and residents meet and form a unique social, cultural and economic fabric.
🎒 Leisure activities
⚠️ Requirements
The volunteers must speak English fluently. Knowing French or Arabic is a plus.
🤝 Meeting point
Rue du Poirier 8, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Link : https://maps.app.goo.gl/xEzfzanru3UEcFSL9
Arrival days are from Monday to Friday between 11am and 4pm. Outside these hours, we recommend you to take a hotel room on your own.
Transportation
To get to the meeting point you can take the train from the airport: https://www.belgiantrain.be/en.
Be careful : you have to go to Louvain-la-Neuve, not Louvain (Leuven in Dutch).
ℹ️ Additional information
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Sign in to apply📅 Available sessions
BelRefugeesAUTO-EXT
01/01/2026 at 00:00 → 31/12/2026 at 00:00
BelRefugees
01/01/2025 at 00:00 → 31/12/2025 at 00:00
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–30 years old
Solidarity donation
250.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Verte Voie 20, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Belgium
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)
Timezone
Central European Summer Time
Local time: 20:52 (12/11/2026)
🛡️ Before you leave
✅ Features
🏠 Accommodation
🗣️ Languages spoken