📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Bovigny asylum seeker Centre accommodates people who have asked for asylum in Belgium.
Their stay in the centre is temporary and lasts until a decision is taken regarding a possible refugee status. This center is specialized in hosting families (300 residents) and teenagers who arrived in Belgium without their parents (+/-20 residents). As teenagers, they have a special status and are protected by the Children's Rights Declaration until their majority. The centre provides such services as accommodation, food, educational courses, medical and social help, cultural, sport events etc. Website (available in English): http://www.fedasil.be
💼 What the programme involves
This project is based on a dynamic meeting between the teenagers volunteers and residents of the asylum seeker centre. With the help of a technical leader, volunteers and residents will work together to build a barbecue area : instalation of the concrete pad, assembly a wooden shelter ( walls and roof), construction of the barbecue with stone (masonery).
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers will sleep in a common room (dormitory) in a building next to the central one. Showers are accessible in the central building. Meals will be provided by the Centre. Please, be aware that meals are simple. Vegetarian or any other diet should be announced in advance.
📍 About the location
Bovigny is a very small (less than 300 inhabitants) and isolated village of the Bastogne’s arrondissement. From 10km of Bovigny, you could find towns as Vielsalm and Gouvy, from there you could take a train to reach bigger cities. By choosing this workcamp, you decide to live in the nature. All around, there are fields, woods and small villages. But there are plenty of opportunities for entertainment: football fields and basketball playgrounds, TV room…
ℹ️ Additional information
This project requests volunteers with a good level of motivation for its theme and who are prepared to integrate the life of a refugee centre. We recommend them to a have an idea about the policy concerning refugees in their own country. In order to demonstrate this, we ask the candidate volunteers: to send a short motivation letter, to answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organisation). We will not confirm any placement request before the analysis of these documents.