📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Since 1933 Les Stations de Plein Air manages and organizes activities for children living in and around Brussels and also coming from less advantaged backgrounds. The organization is located in a nine-hectare park, classified as a special part of Monuments and Sites of Belgium, only a few kilometers from the capital of Belgium.
Les Stations de Plein Air wishes to promote an active and healthy occupation of leisure time among children and youth.
It aims to develop their sense of creativity, their ability to live together and their sense of citizenship. As such, they are also very happy to be able to welcome young people coming from abroad, and they hope that a connection can be created between their young summer camps leaders and the group of international volunteers.
Your support will help the organization promote healthy activities and well-being among kids. (UN SDG 3 Good health and well-being, UN SDG4 Quality education).
Website: www.parcparmentier.be
💼 What the programme involves
By hosting volunteers, the organisation hopes to improve the rooms and the outdoor area used to welcome the kids and organise the activities. The aim is to have safe and comfortable areas where to have fun and develop activities.
The Volunteers crew will help with light renovation works such as painting the walls and the doors, putting skirting boards, implement small improvement work.
There will be also outside work in order to maintain the nine hectares area such as mowing, cutting the vegetation back or clearing the wood.
If you’re very fast and can finish all of the above, some decoration work can be considered as well!
🏠 Accommodation on site
Your team will be accommodated in the “pavilion Albert”, where groups are hosted throughout the year. Additionally to a kitchen and rooms for 50 people, you will also have a large room for any indoor activity you might think of, not to mention the access to the park area.
The food will be provided by the park’s kitchen. Breakfast and dinner will be on a self-catering basis, lunch is shared with camp leaders and kids in the Park. Volunteers must notify beforehand about specific diet.
📍 About the location
Brussels is the capital of Belgium and of Europe.
The Parmentier park was commissioned by the king Leopold II to embellish the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre district that became the most elegant and greenest of Brussels. Les Station de Plein Air, created in 1933, is one of the first playgrounds in Brussels.
Upon request, the park can provide you with board games, books and comics.
⚠️ Requirements
Alcohol and smoking is strictly forbidden in the presence of children. Smoking is forbidden inside the buildings as well.
Camp Language: English