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Fedasil Sugny

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About the project

Fedasil Sugny

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The Sugny Asylum Seeker Centre hosts people who have asked for international protection in Belgium. These people fled situations of war, persecution, discriminations, environmental disasters…. But before to feel actually established in Belgium and allowed to build their future here, their refugee status has to be proven and accepted through a long administrative process. While waiting for the documents that will enable them to remain legally in our country, the asylum seekers are accommodated in this centre. People living there await the solution concerning their administrative status. They never know what tomorrow may bring to them. Therefore, residents often found themselves overwhelmed by feelings of relief and anguish, hope and disappointment. The life of Sugny Asylum Seeker Centre reflects these individual dramas and hopefulness of residents. Website (available in English): https://www.fedasil.be/en This project is organized in line with several other volunteering teams hosted in refugees center in Belgium. It aims to bring a small contribution to the welcoming of the residents as well as to permit the volunteers to learn about and be better aware of the realities of the migration policies. By volunteering for this project, you are actively helping the centre welcome people coming from a wide variety of difficult situations and take care of them while they are waiting for a response to their asylum request (UN SDG 10 Reduced inequalities).

💼 What the programme involves

This project is based on a dynamic meeting between the volunteers and the residents of the center and this one is a special workcamp because it is the 25th birthday of Sugny\' center. The first week will be devoted to organizing the party that will be on Sunday 25th August. With the help of staff of the center, volunteers, young and older residents will work together to clean and tidy up, prepare the decoration and the different activities such as make-up for kids, meals from the world, karaoke, wood\'s games, sports, music… The second week will be devoted to proposing leisure activities and workshops to the residents and specially youngsters and kids: sports, crafts, games, treasure hunt, film projection, debate… Feel free to bring your fresh ideas. BEWARE : Volunteers will work during the week-end (24th – 25th of August) and they will have free time on Monday and Tuesday.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will be lodged in a common room (dormitory) in a building next to the central one. Showers are accessible in the central building. A washing machine is also available. BEWARE : Volunteers will share the same living conditions of the residents that are really “basic”. The food will be provided by the center and you will eat in the refectory with the residents. There is also a kitchen available if you want to propose to the others your favourite meal ;)

📍 About the location

Sugny is a small and isolated village in the south of Belgium nearby the French border. 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, basketball playgrounds… During the weekend, and according to the group decisions, it will be possible to organise cultural visits and to travel to the biggest Belgian cities. BEWARE: the place is really isolated.

⚠️ Requirements

This project is a volunteering team, supported by the European Solidarity Corps program of the European Union. Compared to the usual workcamp participation scheme, some main financial and administrative differences must be underlined:  The participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en  The volunteers do not have to pay any fee (not sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project  The volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 4€/day, once they arrive on the project in Belgium  The volunteers will receive a financial support for their travel, according to a maximum amount established in accordance with their travel distance  The volunteers need to register on the European Solidarity Corps Portal; CBB will organize their matching, on the online system, with the volunteering project  The volunteers will have to complete a participation report, submitted online by the ESC portal We warn the volunteers that the consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden inside the centre. This project requests volunteers with a good level of motivation for its theme and who are prepared to integrate the life of an asylum seekers center. 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 answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organization)  to send us a criminal record We will not confirm any placement request before the analysis of these documents.

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📅 Available sessions

CBB0924ESC

17/08/2024 → 31/08/2024

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 12
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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

Sugny, 5550 Vresse-sur-Semois, Belgium

Belgium

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Central European Standard Time

Local time: 21:05 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English French