Beschrijving van de organisatie

Fedasil is the state agency for the asylum seekers in Belgium. The agency provides material help (organized by centres) for asylum seekers and organized directly and with partners a reception and accompaniment of quality.

The reception centre for asylum seekers in Rixensart is a place of accommodation that mainly hosts families, on temporary stay, waiting for a regularization of their situation. The centre has 45 staff and about 60 volunteers.

Services such as social, medical, reception, animation, logistic, school/training, provide supervision of the residents all along their stay in the centre. The centre is also hosting 30 female unaccompanied minors supervised by a team of educators and social workers. This service is specialized in the reception of young mothers or pregnant girls and a nursery welcome babies and young children to encourage the girls to continue their schooling.