📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Throughout the world, Oxfam is working to find concrete and innovative solutions to help people to emerge from poverty and achieve their full potential. Oxfam also advocates taking into account the voice of the poor in local and international decisions that affect them. In all its actions, Oxfam works with partner organizations and with vulnerable women and men to end the inequities that lead to poverty.
💼 What the programme involves
The project focuses on supporting the implementation of the 14th Oxfam Trailwalker on the 28th and 29th August. Its objective is to fight against poverty. The challenge is to travel on foot and in teams of 4 people a distance of 100 km in 30 hours maximum. Alongside this, each team raises funds for the benefit of Oxfam-Solidarity projects around the world.The volunteers will help the Oxfam team (with 350 other volunteers) to set up facilities in order to receive walkers (1000), their supporters and other volunteers (tents, decoration of the place ...) in the best conditions. During the event, they will be dispatched in different parts of the route to support the organization (give meals and water, welcome and support the walkers, scanning ...). The last day of the project will be off.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Arrival in Oxfam office in Brussels to start with awareness raising activities. The first two nights will be spent in Brussels in the Oxfam offices (or in a Youth Hostel). Then departure to the place of the Trail in Saint-Hubert. There, the accommodation will be in a tent (or in a building depending on covid measures). The volunteers will bring their own sleeping bag and matrass with them.
📍 About the location
In Brussels at the beginning and at the end of the project. During the trail : in the region of Saint-Hubert, not far from the little city of Rochefort in the Ardennes. The last day of the project will be a day off in Brussels or elsewhere.
ℹ️ Additional information
The volunteers will cook for themselves during the stay in Brussels. During the trail, the volunteers will get food prepared by others. No internet connection during the trail. Covid-related safety measures :- Face masks to be used outside of the bubble of the volunteer s group- Ventilated living and sleeping areas- Contact surfaces will be cleaned regularly- Material will remain in the group bubble as much as possible- Remember to cough in the elbow, wash hands regularly, use single-use tissues- 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).