📝 Detailed information
💼 What the programme involves
Are you ready to live a life-changing adventure in Belgium while contributing to a social cause? In the “Workshop operation "La Strada"” you will realize activities with youngsters having difficulties in social skills and learning possibilities, or suffering for social or mental problems. Workshops for them offer sports, music, art.... Your task will be to organize every week new ateliers together with social workers and the same youngsters, which participate with their ideas. During school holidays the same activities are organized in outdoor camps. Our previous volunteer recommends this project to anyone interested in acting in the socio-educational field with adolescents in situation of discomfort, since it offers a very good preparation regarding institutional pedagogy. “La Strada” is an avant-garde place in Antwerp, and many other organizations come to observe it, to get inspired; it’s also a place where you can test and break your limits, to grow professionally and personally.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will live in a studio near the city center of Antwerp. Transports for you will be arranged, using either public transport or a bike provided by the hosting organisation. Food is available for free during the project actiivites, while you will receive a food allowance for the free days or the holidays.
🎒 Leisure activities
You will attend three official training sessions: a pre-departure training before leaving Italy; an on arrival training in a few weeks after your advent in Belgium; a midterm training, around the half of the volunteering experience. Lessons of Dutch can be organized, together with basic training skills on how to work with youngsters. The counselors of the hosting organization will help you in reflecting about your own skills.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: You are minimum 20 years old, passionate and committed to work with disadvantaged young people between 12 and 18 years old, exploring new ways to approache them.
You have social and interpersonal competences, and are creative, flexible, enthusiastic, engaging, empathic, open for new ideas, perseverant, curious, with desire to learn and develop yourself.
You are strongly interested about the activities you like, as gardening, handicrafts, music, sport, art, drama, so that you can organize creative, inspiring and engaging ateliers.
You are ready to study and learn basic Dutch language.
Deadline: No application deadline
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.