📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Caritas Vlaanderen facilitates a “reference address” for approximately 300 Travellers in Belgium. A reference address is an address for people residing in Belgium, but without an official place of residence. This gives them access to official services and a point of reference for claiming all kinds of social rights and receiving official letters.
As the lifestyle of the travelers is to move around Belgium or anywhere else during the year, it is complicated for children/youth to attend schools. In that context, Caritas Vlaanderen is developing a project to give access to education for children/youth of this target group.
Volunteers will be asked to prepare, organize, animate activities or lessons in French for children/youth during the week in collaboration with the staff and local volunteers.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Caritas Vlaanderen will secure accommodation in Brussels before the arrival of the volunteer: room (with meals included) with shared facilities at the Institute of Cultural Affairs.
Caritas will ensure that volunteers receive their pocket money at the beginning of each month. Volunteers will have the opportunity to choose the local transportation in the city: a bicycle (of Caritas Vlaanderen or not) or monthly subscription for public transport. When volunteers have to travel outside the city, they will get a "Go Pass/Rail Pass" to use the train or the reimbursement of tickets for transport.
🎒 Leisure activities
Volunteers will follow a basis training to have the same information as local volunteers, and as well a specific training on Roma and travellers people.
Volunteers will have the opportunity to follow trainings with the team on different topics.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Volunteers have experience with children/youth and knowledge in education (feeling comfortable to teach reading, writing and numeracy to children)
Volunteers have to speak French to teach children/youth and communicate with the families from the project. Speaking English, Dutch or Romanian is an added value but not essential.
Volunteers should stay at least 8 months, at best 12 months. Selected candidates will have an interview with the organization.
Deadline: Application deadline: 18/01/2023
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.