My volunteering experience in Liège
Miguel, SpainI recommend everyone young people to give themselves the chance to have an opportunity like this.
Salut les amis! My name is Miguel and I am speaking to you from Liège to tell you about my experience as a volunteer, tomorrow I will be two months since I arrived.
I'm in a project managed by CBB (Compagnons Bâtisseurs) with an association called La Barraka, which is a maison de la jeunesse. This association looks after children's rights, giving girls from seven to eighteen years old the opportunity to have a good time with their friends, in addition to the academic help provided by the association. The Baraka organises workshops in theatre, dance, radio, sports... A bit of everything, the aim is to give a voice and opportunities to the young girls of Liège, and in particular to those in the Sainte-Marguerite neighbourhood, where the Barraka is located, a working class neighbourhood with a very poor and migrant population. Well, the whole of Belgium has a very large migrant population, but this one has a high concentration of mainly Congolese, Moroccan and Syrian people.
As for life here, I'll start by saying that there is one very important thing to learn before or during the project, it doesn't matter, but you have to learn it. And that is to be alone, and to enjoy the solitude, because the first months are going to be of absolute self-management, in which I don't have a shoulder to cry on, or a person with whom I trust enough to tell my problems. I have colleagues, colleagues of two months with whom I still don't have enough confidence to tell them all my problems. I will have them, but for the moment I only have "friends for the good times only", as I like to call them.
I don't think I have much more to say. I recommend everyone young people to give themselves the chance to have an opportunity like this. It's a great way to get to know yourself, to get to know the world and other realities, to broaden your horizons at the end of the day. And of course a great bridge to become the person you want to be.
A big hug, we'll read each other when it takes longer.
À bientôt!
Updated on вторник, 17/02/2026