📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Don Bosco is a boarding school made up of 7 big houses which can host up to 120 youth studying in different schools in Brussels.
Don Bosco was one of the best educators of modern times as he developed success-oriented teaching methods. Every youth has a huge potential. The whole educational work is done by pupil’s parents, teachers, educators and volunteers altogether. The objective is to make sure the youth is in the best conditions to experience in a positive way his abilities. Thus, the youth feels empowered because he realises that he has true abilities, gains self-esteem and throws himself into his homework because he enjoys doing it.
The main objective is to help these young people to achieve academic, human and social success through three cornerstones:
- Reason: discussing on issues drives them to use their abilities to think, to make decisions and to get involved.
- Religion: as a way to look for meaning in their lives.
- Love: which is shown by the educators through being a loving, strict and attentive person and by the youth by being
grateful.
This teaching method is based on confidence in youths’ positive future.
💼 What the programme involves
As a volunteer, your presence is a very important asset but you will not replace the educators who are currently working there. You will have to assist the teamThis is a non-exhaustive list.
- Going to the supermarket once a week
- Making sure that the premises in which the youth are living are neat and clean
- Providing some services: going to the supermarket, painting...
- Doing everything to enable each of them to improve
- Ensuring their moral, emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual well-being
- Sending them to bed
- Waking the pupils up and helping them to prepare their lunch pack, accompanying them to schools (by walking or driving)...
- Supervising mealtimes
- Supervising the activities that take place on the evening (by being creative and organised)
- Daily tutoring (helping the pupils individually)
daily life through:
- Daily tutoring (helping the pupils individually)
- Supervising the activities that take place on the evening (by being creative and organised)
- Supervising mealtimes
- Waking the pupils up and helping them to prepare their lunch pack, accompanying them to schools (by walking or driving)...
- Sending them to bed
- Ensuring their moral, emotional, intellectual, physical and spiritual well-being
- Doing everything to enable each of them to improve
- Providing some services: going to the supermarket, painting...
- Making sure that the premises in which the youth are living are neat and clean
- Going to the supermarket
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation at the student hall of residence will be provided.
You will have to buy your own food and to cook it yourself over the weekends and on your days off. You can use the kitchen.
Vegetarian meals can be provided.
📍 About the location
Ganshoren is one of the nineteen municipalities of Brussels which is located in the north-west of the city, 20 minutes from the Grand-Place by public transportation. This is a peaceful and green municipality in which families from
different social backgrounds live. The boarding school is located in a quiet and verdant environment. Buses 87, 84 as well as De Lijn buses serve this place very often.
You can visit Belgian cities: Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Namur, Liège...
You can also meet people volunteering in other organisations operating in the education field.