📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
JAVVA has the great pleasure to host its first international workcamp in its neighbourhood in Brussels JAVVA is a youth organisation involved in active citizenship and intercultural dialogue issues seeking to promote intercultural exchanges through volunteering and promote their active participation and mobility. This workcamp is organized in cooperation with local partners:- The International Solidarity Department of Anderlecht and Molenbeek Municipalities aim to develop, coordinate and implement projects in the area of North/South relations and International Solidarity. One of its missions is to create a network between local NGO s within the Municipality.- The Youth Centre Semaphore , located on a canal boat, offers a project with and for young people living in the neighbourhood through tutoring, activities and various events in order to bring them all together and to promote a better social cohesion.- Rezolution , a non profit organisation created by young people, aims to promote urban arts, boost the citizenship and diversity and give youngsters an opportunity to express their creativity through urban art (hip-hop, slam, graffiti,...) and sport.
💼 What the programme involves
This workcamp will be divided into 3 missions proposed by our partners. Each mission aims to improve the spaces dedicated to youngsters of the neighbourhood :- Mission 1: Refreshment of a municipal area dedicated to youngsters of the neighbourhood through small renovation works and a collective artistic project.- Mission 2: Small renovation works on the courtyard of the organization: cleaning the space, bringing a beautiful touch to the outdoor spaces and creating convivial spaces using recovered materials,...- Mission 3: Maintenance works on the Semaphore s canal boat. This mission will give the opportunity to the volunteers to understand the daily life of youth centre located in an unusual place through the renovating works of the terrace.International volunteers will work together with local volunteers coming from Molenbeek and Anderlecht neighbourhoods. We wish, through this project, to give more visibility to local initiatives thanks to the presence of the international group but also to allow youngsters from the neighbourhood to meet youngsters coming from different countries in order to promote intercultural exchanges among them. We also wish to encourage mobility among youngsters of the area by bringing an international project to them.Molenbeek Municipality has an unfortunate media attention mainly since the Paris and Brussels attacks. We wish, through this workcamp, to allow international volunteers to see another face of this part of Brussels, to discover positive initiatives taking place there and to enter in contact with its inhabitants.Activities such as visits, dinners, projections will be organised during the workcamp in cooperation with different partners in order to reach this objective.
🏠 Accommodation on site
ACCOMMODATION: Volunteers will sleep in the Residential Youth Centre De Waterman locate in the hearth of Molenbeek. This centre is used to host international groups all year long. Volunteers will be divide into 2 dorms of 5 beds. FOOD : One of the dorms will be linked to a kitchenette where volunteers will cook for themselves.
📍 About the location
The workcamp will take place in Anderlecht and Molenbeek, which are two of the 19 municipalities of Brussels located in the Est of the Belgian capital. Like all the other municipalities, they are officially bilingual (Dutch and French) and count respectively about 119 000 and 97 000 inhabitants. Activities will mainly take place around the neighbourhood of Cureghem in Anderlecht and in several places of Molenbeek, very multicultural areas around the Brussels Canal. Bikes will be available for the volunteers in order to move around more easily during the workcamp.
⚠️ Requirements
It will be the first international workcamp organised by JAVVA and its local partners. This project is designed for very motivated and open-minded volunteers who are willing to learn more about this neighbourhood of Brussels and its inhabitants. A project-related motivation letter is required. Please bring adapted working clothes/shoes and a sleeping bag. It is also important to be able to ride a bike as this mean of transportation will be the main one.
ℹ️ Additional information
This project is designed for very motivated and open-minded volunteers who are willing to learn more about this neighbourhood of Brussels and its inhabitants. A project-related motivation letter is required.