📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Centre Couleurs du Monde is a reception center for asylum seeker of the Belgian Red Cross. At a time it can host up to 300 people who asked for asylum in Belgium. Their stay in the centre is temporary and lasts until their refugee status is proved or refused.
Centre provides such services as accommodation, food, educational courses, medical and social help, cultural, sport events etc.
To learn more about the Centre you can visit the Red-Cross web-site – http://www.croix-rouge.be/activites/asile-et-migration/nos-centres-d-accueil-pour-demandeurs-d-asile/couleurs-du-monde-rendeux/
This project the second in 2016) will be the 10th in the history of the Centre.
💼 What the programme involves
A project dedicated to the organisation of animation with and for the youngest refugee (0 to 18 years old). Your team will prepare some activities for the children of the centre (handicraft, sport, games... feel free to come with your ideas)
🏠 Accommodation on site
Due to the massive arrival of asylum seekers lately, the accommodation will be provided in a classroom, turned into a dormitory, in the village school located 300 m from the Red-Cross center). Toilets and sinks will be at your disposal in the elementary school but showers will be in the centre. Smoking and alcohol drinking is strictly forbidden inside the school and the Red-Cross centre as well as in their close surroundings.
Food will be provided, relax – no cooking! Pork is not cooked in the centre. If you keep a vegetarian diet – you are welcome as well, just let us know.
📍 About the location
Rendeux is a countryside village that lies in the country's Walloon Region and Luxembourg Province and accounts up to 2,500 inhabitants. The village of Rendeux is situated in the valley of the River Ourthe in an area, which attracts many visitors both for its natural beauty and for such nearby medieval villages as La Roche-en-Ardenne (11km) and Durbuy (18km). For more details, please, visit: www.rendeux.be
The closest train station is 8km away – Melreux-Hotton (there is a bus, running till train station – just 10 minutes).
Belgium is quite small and cozy country, most cities and nice places are easy reachable by train.
Brussels is about 2h30 away from Rendeux.
⚠️ Requirements
Some notions of French will be useful, and also you can find here a lot of people from all over the world, you can discover numerous of other languages! Facial expression, sign language and emotional interjections may help you in any situation! Feel free!
BEWARE: additionally to the motivation letter, the volunteers will be required to fill in a questionnaire, in order to encourage them to get to know a bit more about the asylum seekers situation. This questionnaire is compulsory, and the volunteer will be confirmed only when this form is received.