📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Centre d’accueil La Jastrée is an asylum seekers reception center of the Belgian Red Cross. This center is specialized in the welcome of foreigner teenagers who arrived in Belgium without their parents. At a time it could host 40 young people who asked for asylum in Belgium, the maximum capacity is 95 places. As teenagers, they have a special status and are not considered as asylum seekers as such. Centre provides such services as accommodation, food, educational courses, medical and social help, cultural, sport events etc. Each day, they are going in different schools of the region.
La Jastrée center welcome an international workcamp for the first time and expect that the young residents and the volunteers crew from all over the world will have great intercultural exchanges thanks to this voluntary project. That is the main purpose of the camp.
To learn more about the Centre you can visit the Red-Cross website –http://www.croix-rouge.be/activites/asile-et-migration/nos-centres-d-accueil-pour-demandeurs-d-asile/la-jastree-barvaux/
💼 What the programme involves
Two different tasks are waiting for you. Each morning, with the help of technical leader you will do some manual outdoor tasks: building of a greenhouse, building of wood construction with old pallets: to build benches, to create flowerbeds…Your imagination is welcome to create different stuff. The afternoons will be dedicated to the organisation of activities for the teenagers (40 afghans boys - maybe more in August - in between 14 and 17 y.o.) your fresh ideas are welcome too: sports from your own country, games…
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation will be provided in the Centre itself –
2 rooms of 4 people, or one dormitory depending on the rooms available. Smoking and alcohol drinking inside is strictly forbidden.
Food will be provided, relax – no cooking! Pork is not cooked in the centre. If you keep a vegetarian or gluten free diet – you are welcome as well, just let us know.
📍 About the location
Barvaux is a small city in the countryside! It’s a quiet touristic place. You can find everything there: schools, supermarkets, industries… But still, it is surrounded by woods, fields and small villages where the life rhythm remains rural. The city of Liège is about 50 minutes.
⚠️ Requirements
the candidate will have to send a short motivation letter and fill in a specific questionnaire which will be sent after application.