Lýsing á stofnuninni/samtökunum

The organisation Stichting Don Bosco Rijswijk is multi cultural Youth Centre, located near the well known city of The Hague (2 km. to the city center) in Risjwijk. This center exists and works with children and youth for more then half a century.
The visitors and locality of the youth center have a mixed population: multi nationality, with multi religious and cultural background. This Multi Cultural Youth Centre, Don Bosco is a youth organisation with 7000 to 8000 young and elderly visitors per year. It has a lot of activities for children and youth with special care for free time activities and non-formal education. It creates opportunities and organizes activities for the neighborhood so that they can meet each other and share experiences. Don Bosco has great facilities to organize both local, national and international activities. We are also organizing activities for refugee children.

Viðfangsefni tengd samfélagslegri þátttöku

This organisation is willing to involve volunteers who face situations which make their participation in activities more difficult, from the following categories for different types of project:

• Cultural differences
• Economic obstacles
• Health problems