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Belgium Belgium: BUILDING YOUTH - ENFANCE DE L'ART (JAVVA25-03)

Dates

12/07/2025   -   26/07/2025

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Renovation
Manual Work

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Fee

Free
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Details on the project

Age
18 - 99
Max number of volunteers
12
Still room for
3 Male + 4 Female
Languages
English
Vegetarian food
Yes
Nearest airport
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Nearest bus/train station
Tournai train station
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Work

Taking care of the school: Improvements, renovations and maintenance of the school premises. Also some demolitions!

Accomodation and food

School dormitory, shower and toilet.

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"L’Enfance de l'Art", founded in 1997, is an association which aims to help parents in their education role. The organisation aims to gather people willing to bring to their children a creative learning environment where they can find the joy in learning and experience the richness of childhood rather than early specialisation or academic hot-housing. Parents and professionals work together in the structures created by the organisation: leisure workshops, nurseries, schools, kindergarten. To do so, the association follows the principles of Steiner-Waldorf pedagogy.


Altogether, those activities gather a total of 155 children. The nursery, the kindergarten and the primary school, which are all recognized by the authorities, are located in a former boarding school which was abandoned in 2004. This building in now in a process of renovation which the volunteers will take part in.

Directions to meeting point

Tournai train station

Requirements

very physical work !

Belgium Belgium: Les Stations de Plein Air asbl (CBB1025TEEN)

Dates

02/08/2025   -   09/08/2025

Feedback from 152 volunteers

Tags

Manual Work
Renovation

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Spain Italy

Fee

Free i Fee is paid in two installments:

0 to be paid now.
EUR 180 is to be paid after acceptance.

Note: Total fee can vary depending on bank rates.
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Details on the project

Age
15 - 17
Max number of volunteers
12
Still room for
3 Male + 6 Female
Languages
English
Vegetarian food
Yes
Access with disability
Yes
Nearest airport
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Nearest bus/train station
Brussels-Schuman
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Work

By hosting volunteers, the non-profit organization “Les Stations de Plein Air” hopes to improve the spaces used to host children and organize their activities. Volunteers are therefore expected to carry out manual renovation work. They will prepare the bedrooms and common areas on the first floor of "Pavillon Albert" to accommodate groups in the future. They will be painting walls, cleaning, and carrying out minor repairs.
If they progress quickly, they could also help replace the vinyl flooring in the kitchen, as well as maintain the park's green spaces (for example, trimming hedges, staking fruit trees, etc.).
They will be accompanied in these tasks by Sekou, one of the non-profit's staff member.
A project for budding DIY enthusiasts!

Accomodation and food

Volunteers will be accommodated on the ground floor of "Pavilion Albert." In addition to a kitchen and several bedrooms with bunk beds, they will have access to a large living room and, of course, to the park.
They will prepare their own breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be provided by the organization’s kitchen and shared with the activity leaders and children from the summer camps.
Please inform us in advance of any special dietary requirements so that we can organize the shopping.

Location and leisure

Brussels is the capital of Belgium and Europe.
The park was commissioned by king Leopold II to embellish the Woluwe-Saint-Pierre district that became the most elegant and the greenest part of Brussels. Les Station de Plein Air, created in 1933, is one of the first playgrounds in Brussels. 
Upon request, the non-profit can provide you with board games, books and comics.
On Sunday and at the end of the work days, you can take advantage of the recommendations and advice from the non-profit's staff members to visit the city with your group.

Project hosted by

The non-profit organization “Les Stations de Plein Air” has been organizing activities for children for almost a hundred years: activities after school and during school holidays, as well as residential activities for schools outside of Brussels. It also organizes training for future youth leaders, equipping teenagers and young adults to lead children's activities themselves.
The organization pays particular attention to promoting social diversity in its activities and making them financially accessible to as many kids as possible.
It is located in a nine-hectare park, called “Parc Parmentier”, in a green area of ​​the city, where it also has an educational vegetable garden.
More information: www.parcparmentier.be

Additional comments

180€ of participation fee

Belgium Belgium: MARSINNE FOLK FESTIVAL (JAVVA25-05)

Dates

08/09/2025   -   19/09/2025

Feedback from 33 volunteers

Tags

Festival

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Morocco Turkey Colombia

Fee

Free
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Details on the project

Age
18 - 99
Max number of volunteers
9
Still room for
2 Male + 3 Female
Languages
English
Vegetarian food
Yes
Nearest airport
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Nearest bus/train station
Andenne train station
Map

Work

General festival set-up and dismantling:
- setting up the stages,
- setting up the stands and the bar,
- plus a little decorating and painting
- then the same thing but in the other direction for dismantling.

Accomodation and food

Indoors, please bring your sleeping bag and mattress.
Before and after the festival, meals will be taken with the diverse teams of the festival. Sandwiches will be prepared for lunch and a warm meal for dinner. During the festival, volunteers will receive meal tickets to get warm meals from the caterer of the site, there will also be foodtruck were you will have to pay by cash.

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Created in 1991 at the Moulin de Ferrière, the Marsinne folk festival brings together dancers, musicians, singers and artists in the wonderful setting of the Château Ferme de Marsinne.

Every year on the 2nd weekend in September, this festival welcomes well-known and lesser-known groups for folk balls and traditional music concerts. The programme attracts both dance fans and music lovers of all stripes. Non-dancers also have the opportunity to learn folk ball dances and other repertoires.
Musicians, dancers and the curious for a day come together in a friendly, family atmosphere. When not on stage, the musicians play spontaneously together, in the middle of the audience or at the market of the craftsmen and luthiers present.

The setting of the château-farm, a magnificent, peaceful and easily accessible place, adds a unique touch. The festival is not a commercial venture, but it attracts an ever-growing audience.

Directions to meeting point

Andenne train station