📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Don Bosco TElE Services is a youth center located in a popular district in Brussels, which organizes different types of activities throughout the year (creative workshops, school support, sport) for children and youngsters coming from this district, mostly from immigrant origins.
💼 What the programme involves
The typical working days last from 10am to 6pm. At the beginning of the day, volunteers will prepare activities for children aged from 6 to 12, and then they will lead those activities. They might consist in art and craft, cooking, sports, a day trip to the countryside or seaside, games.The days can be very demanding and tiring. It is very important to start the day and be there (if there is no accomodation) at 10 am every day and to be punctual for the smooth running of the project. It is also very important to respect the living rules of the center in order to be a good example for the children (respecting schedules, limitd use of cellphones). If there is no accomodation , a supper with the staff and the volunteers will be organised every week to strenghten the links in the group.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Depending on the Covid sanitary measures, the volunteers will either be sleeping in a big room of the Don Bosco Center (sleeping bag needed) with access to toilet, shower and kitchen or there will be no accomodation and they will go back to their homes every day for the night.
📍 About the location
In the center of Brussels
ℹ️ Additional information
Covid-related safety measures :- The volunteers will wear facemasks during the working hours- The volunteers will respect strictly the hygiene measures and wash their hands regularly. Water and soap will be available. The staff will make sure that the rules will be followed ( asking the kids to wash their hands, cleaning of the activity and meal places, etc)- Social distancing will not be compulsary towards the kids. Nevertheless, the volunteers will follow the measures (coughing in the elbow, wash hands regularly, use single-use tissues, etc)- Participants will be asked to sign a certificate indicating that they have not suffered any symptoms that may be related to COVID during the two weeks preceding the volunteer project (sore throat, cough, headache, fever).