📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
This project will take place in the asylum centre Ter Dennen in Lanaken. Ter Dennen is a Red Cross centre for asylum seekers. After arrival in Belgium, refugees are sent to a centre where they receive food and shelter. Ter Dennen is a quite isolated place in a green surrounding. This place gives shelter to more than 240 people from 20 different countries. 50 of them are minors. Is will be our goal to help and entertain these children during their summer break.
💼 What the programme involves
Volunteers will organize activities for the children and youngsters staying in the asylum centre. What we are going to do depends entirely on the motivation and creativity of the volunteers, so creative minds and people with good ideas are more than welcome! Keep in mind that people staying in Ter Dennen are passing a very difficult time and it’s in our hands to make their lives a bit brighter.
It is also possible volunteers will be asked to do some other jobs, for example paint the children’s playroom. Therefore we expect volunteers to be very motivated. Volunteers will work 5 days a week and have free weekends in which they are free to choose what to do.
🏠 Accommodation on site
You will sleep in 1 large sleeping rooms in the centre itself. Beds and bed sheets are provided.
There will be one shower and two toilets exclusively for the volunteers.
the group will eat together with the residents of the centre;
📍 About the location
Lanaken : Lanaken is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. Lanaken is located near the Dutch border, bordering Maastricht directly.
⚠️ Requirements
We are looking for people who are independent, who can organise activities, get along with all sorts of people with different backgrounds and children and who have a sense of responsibility.
Prepare for warm, sunny as well as for cold, rainy weather, Belgian weather is unpredictable!!!
Applicants will be contacted by a contact-person of VIA for a skype-call.
ℹ️ Additional information
When to arrive? It is best to arrive before 5 pm. If this is not possible, please contact the Red Cross centre and inform them about your arrival time.
We also recommend you to visit a asylum seekers centre in your own country before coming to Ter Dennen in Belgium