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Renforts Andage

Belgium People with disabilities Manual work People with disabilities Manual work Fixed dates

About the project

Renforts Andage

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The non-profit association "Andage" aims to develop innovative projects and responses suitable to the needs of people with light mental disabilities and their families in the Province of Luxembourg and the Walloon Region. Their mission includes: • Individual support: as much as possible, Andage beneficiaries live by themselves. Nevertheless, they need a small support in daily life, different according to their specific needs: helping them to wake up in the morning, keep the house clean, take the train on time... • Collective activities: Andage seeks the development of numerous partnerships with the associative world in order to answer the occupational desires of their beneficiaries (help with the animals, youth clubs,etc.) • Community actions: Andage seeks to develop partnerships to raise awareness among the outside world about the inclusion of its beneficiaries. “Renforts Andage” is the local branch of the organization based in Marche-en-Famenne. Renforts‘ public is mostly composed of people with light to very light mental disabilities. Throughout the years, Renforts and CBB collaborated in many occasions through the yearly hosting of an ESC volunteer, hosting of youth exchanges and other activities, even providing food according to special diets during the Alliance General Conference held in Mozet in 2020. This will nevertheless be our first workcamp together, and both organizations are very excited about it! By taking part in this project, you will help people with mental disabilities throughout their daily life ( UN SDG 10 Reduced inequalities).

💼 What the programme involves

At the moment, Renforts is developing a new space in order to offer occupational activities to their beneficiaries about the topics of environment and permaculture. Renforts also wants to offer everyone the possibility to have walks which stimulate all the five senses in this very space. Currently, a barefoot path already exists to stimulate the sense of touch. In collaboration with the organization staff and its beneficiaries, the team of volunteers will think about a way to stimulate hearing, using for example carillons, sound walls, … and the sense of smell by planting aromatics and fragrant plants. The volunteer’s ideas are very welcome!

🏠 Accommodation on site

Accommodation can be compared to a boarding school (Saint François complex): a corridor with double bedrooms; toilets and showers are at the same floor. No smoking inside. Food will be arranged in the form of self-catering. Bring your recipes to enjoy ‘kitchen life’!

📍 About the location

Marche-en-Famenne is a city in the countryside and it is also the home town of CBB! You can find everything here: schools, supermarkets, industries… But still, it is surrounded by woods, fields and small villages where the life rhythm remains rural. Liège, Namur, Brussels and Luxembourg can be easily reached by train in about one hour. For more information see: www.marche.be

⚠️ Requirements

This project requests volunteers with a high level of motivation in the topic of inclusion. The volunteers must have a basic knowledge of French as they will work side by side with people with light to very light mental disabilities who do not speak English. In order to demonstrate their motivation and French knowledge, we ask the candidate volunteers to: • send us a short motivation letter in French (do not be afraid to make mistakes, BUT please do not use any automatic translators!) • answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organization). We will not confirm any placement request before analysing the submitted forms.

ℹ️ Additional information

The camp language is French.

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📅 Available sessions

CBB01

27/06/2020 → 11/07/2020

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 12
♂ 0/6 ♀ 0/6

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–99 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

6900 Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium

Belgium

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

✅ Features

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Dutch French