Volunteering team in asylum seekers centre Rixensart

Activity description

The Rixensart Asylum Seeker Centre hosts people who have asked for asylum in Belgium. While waiting for the documents that will enable them to remain legally in our country, the asylum seekers are accommodated in this centre. People living there await the solution concerning their administrative status. They never know what tomorrow may bring to them. The volunteers will give a hand and a fresh air to the Centre’s animation team – sportive or social games, billiard, movie clubs, fitness for women, football tournament, craft etc. They will be required to get actively involved in the daily life of the Centre. Half of the time will be devoted to proposals of activities for children and adults (according to the population currently present in the Centre). To a lesser extent and depending on the weather forecast, volunteers will take part in some activities as painting inside or maintenance of the park.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements

Volunteers will be lodged in a common room (dormitory) in a building next to the central one. Showers are accessible in the central building. Self-catering. Take your own recipes and ideas. Please, be aware that meals have to be simple. You will have access to a small kitchen to cook your meals. Vegetarian or any other diet should be announced in advance in order to organise shopping. WE NEED YOU TO HAVE A SENDING ORGANISATION, please refer to http://www.alliance-network.eu/membership/full-members/ and contact an organisation in your country

Training during the activity

Staff of the centre will be there to help with educational activities. You can learn a lot from them and from the other people of the group.

Participant profile

This project requests volunteers with a good level of motivation for its theme and with basic french knowledges. We recommend them to a have an idea about the policy concerning refugees in their own country. In order to demonstrate this, we ask the candidate volunteers: - to send a short motivation letter - to answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organization) - to send us a CGC (Certificate of good conduct) We will not confirm any placement request before the analysis of these documents.

Activity dates

A total of 2 week(s) during the period 05/08/2023 to 19/08/2023

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Activity location

6900 Marche-en-Famenne Belgium

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 Teams volunteering

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Looking for participants from

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Georgia, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Moldova (Republic of), Netherlands, Norway, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine

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Activity topics

Social challenges

Reception and integration of refugees and migrants

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Deadline for applications

Application deadline: 01/06/2023

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