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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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Tags

Renovation
Manual Work

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Morocco Turkey South Korea Spain

Fee

Free
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Details on the project

Age
18 - 99
Max number of volunteers
15
Still room for
3 Male + 7 Female
Languages
English
Vegetarian food
Yes
Nearest airport
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Nearest bus/train station
Tournai train station
Map

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.

Project hosted by

"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: Festival Esperanzah! (CBB0825)

Dates

14/07/2025   -   30/07/2025

Feedback from 162 volunteers

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Manual Work
Art
3
Place(s)
left
full for < 18

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Mexico France Ukraine

Fee

Free
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Details on the project

Age
18 - 99
Max number of volunteers
10
Still room for
3
Languages
English
Vegetarian food
Yes
Nearest airport
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Nearest bus/train station
Floreffe train station
Map

Work

This project is about giving a hand to the music festival "Esperanzah!", which will take place from Friday, July 25th to Sunday, July 27th. Volunteers will work before and after the festival, but will be free during the festival weekend so they can fully enjoy it.
Before the festival: volunteers will join the festival's "decoration" team. They will primarily help with the construction and assembly of the scenery and of all the items making the place more beautiful. They will work with wood, metal, fabric, and paint, using screws and tools (screwdrivers, saws, angle grinders, etc.). After the festival, during the last three days of the project, they will participate in the dismantling.
This project is for those who love DIY, meeting people, and, of course, music.

Accomodation and food

Living conditions will be quite basic. Volunteers will sleep in indoor dormitories. They are asked to bring their own mattress, sleeping bag, and pillow. Showers and toilets are located in the building.
For meals, volunteers will benefit from a catering service and are therefore not required to cook their own meals.

Location and leisure

The festival takes place in the outdoor spaces surrounding the abbey of Floreffe. Floreffe is a large village 12 minutes by train from the city of Namur, and its abbey is just a half-hour walk from its train station.
Volunteers will work during the week and the first Saturday of the project (July 19th) but will be free for the entire duration of the festival, from early afternoon on Friday, July 25th to Sunday, July 27th, so they can fully enjoy the festival.
During the workcamp, activities will be organized on certain evenings for all the volunteers preparing the festival. In fact, the volunteers participating in this workcamp won't be the only ones on site! They will have the opportunity to meet and have a drink at the end of the day (at the bar set up especially for them!) with volunteers from another workcamp, as well as with Belgian volunteers and organizers. A BBQ with all the setup teams will also be organized on Sunday, July 20th.

Project hosted by

The music festival "Esperanzah!" has been held since 2002. Last year, 27,000 festival-goers attended. Esperanzah! aims to be an alternative and committed festival, which applies the principles of social economy and sustainable development. It aims to contribute, through a cultural approach, to the establishment of a deeply social, united, anti-productivist, ecological, democratic, anti-racist and feminist society. The choice of artists, as well as every aspect of the festival's organization (catering, waste sorting, accessibility, NGOs’ village, annual awareness campaign, plan for the prevention of sexist and sexual violence, etc.) reflect these values. More information and this year's lineup: https://www.esperanzah.be/

Directions to meeting point

Monday the 14th of July at the train station of Floreffe at 5pm.
Find your route on: www.belgiantrain.be

Additional comments

The first weekend: volunteers will work on Saturday, and will be free on Sunday. They will be invited to participate in a BBQ with all the setup teams on Sunday evening. The second weekend of the project is the festival weekend: volunteers will be free after lunch on Friday to enjoy the festival. There will be no other free days during the project.

Requirements

Daily meetings to explain the day's tasks and technical explanations are held in French, but English translation will always be available. Therefore, speaking French is not required to participate in this project.

Belgium Belgium: Festival Esperanzah! (JAVVA25-06)

Dates

19/07/2025   -   01/08/2025

Feedback from 35 volunteers

Tags

Festival
Environmental

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France Spain

Fee

Free
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Details on the project

Age
18 - 99
Max number of volunteers
8
Still room for
0 Male + 5 Female
Languages
French
Vegetarian food
Yes
Nearest airport
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Nearest bus/train station
Floreffe train station
Map

Work

The JAVVA team will be joining the environmental management team. It will mainly involve small work such as :

Assembling sorting islands

Dispatching recycling bins, cleaning materials and bin bags

Dispatch of voting ashtrays + hanging of voting phrases.



The environment team has its own workplace, The sorting centre, where they redo their atmospheres, so they are autonomous.



The days start at 9:00 am and finish at 5:00 pm.

The 3 days of the festival are 100% free.

Accomodation and food

Volunteers will sleep in a school, please bring a mattress and sleeping bag.
Meals will be provided 3 times a day during the site. During the 3 days of the festival, only one meal is provided. A vegetarian option is always provided, and in the event of allergies, a solution is generally possible.

Location and leisure

The festival takes place at Floreffe Abbey, 8km from Namur.

Project hosted by

Esperanzah! is a festival that has been offering a varied programme of well-known and lesser-known artists since 2002. It takes place at Floreffe Abbey, between Charleroi and Namur in Belgium. It is organised by the Zah! Cooperative.



Esperanzah! Is a musical, festive and committed experience. As you enter the festival site, you wiill discover Esperanzah Island! You will have the chance to enjoy 7 musical stages and/or spaces dedicated to the street arts. The festival is designed for everyone, from the very young (children's village) to the very old.

Discover the world and take a tasty trip to the Comptoir des Saveurs, or make new connections by meeting the craftspeople and designers at Baz'Art.



The Esperanzah! festival is founded on strong values and principles of good conduct. They guide every aspect of the event.

Our aim has always been to celebrate artistic and cultural diversity while working towards a positive social, political and environmental impact. Social inequality and exclusion, poverty, discrimination and environmental damage are issues that we fight against in every choice we make.

Through collective spaces for reflection and exchange, we explore new perspectives on society. We encourage a society that is more respectful of the environment, more supportive, fairer, feminist, anti-capitalist, inclusive and anti-racist.

We want our values to be embraced by everyone involved, whether they are part of the organising team, festival-goers, artists, external service providers or volunteers.



More information (FR) on https://www.esperanzah.be/

Directions to meeting point

The meeting point is at the Floreffe train station.



From Zaventem (Brussels) Airport, take a train to Namur. Once in Namur, changed to another train to Floreffe.

From Charleroi Airport, take a bus to Charleroi Gare Centrale and then a train to Floreffe.

From Brussels Gare du Midi or Brussels Gare Central, take a train to Namur and then a train to Floreffe.

Train timetables on: https://www.belgiantrain.be/fr



Once in Floreffe Train Station you have to walk for about 25min to the workcamp site.

Additional comments

Please bring your matress and sleeping bag.

Requirements

some knowledge of english or french.

Belgium Belgium: GRIMM (CBB0925)

Dates

09/08/2025   -   23/08/2025

Feedback from 162 volunteers

Tags

Manual Work
Renovation
2
Place(s)
left
full for < 18

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Morocco Mexico Spain Germany

Fee

Free
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Details on the project

Age
18 - 99
Max number of volunteers
12
Still room for
2
Languages
English
Vegetarian food
Yes
Nearest airport
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Nearest bus/train station
Marche en Famenne
Map

Work

Volunteers will help build a barbecue area in the Fond des Vaulx woods, in the center of Marche-en-Famenne. There is already a barbecue area in these woods, but GRIMM wants to build a second one so that more families and residents of the town can enjoy it during the warmer weather. Volunteers will lay a concrete base and build a shelter, as well as several picnic tables and benches.
Volunteers will also carry out several improvements along a walking trail in another wood in the town. This wood is inhabited by a colony of beavers, who regularly alter the landscape by creating flooded areas; the volunteers will therefore build footbridges so that people can continue to walk there without getting their feet wet. They will also build a picnic table and benches.
If you work quickly, other small outdoor manual tasks will be planned.
Volunteers will work in several teams, each lead by one member of GRIMM.
If you enjoy working with wood, screws, and tools, this is the project for you!

Accomodation and food

The volunteers will stay in “Saint-François complex”, in double bedrooms. Toilets and showers are on the same floor, the kitchen and a large living area (a former chapel) a few floors below. Volunteers will do their own shopping and prepare their own meals.

Location and leisure

Marche-en-Famenne is a small town in the countryside located in the south of the country. You can find everything there: schools, shops, industries, services... The town is surrounded by several industrial estates, but also by woods, fields and small villages where the pace of life remains rural. Liège, Namur and Luxembourg are easily accessible by train in about an hour, Brussels in two. It is also a good base camp to discover the natural heritage of the Ardenne region and to practice outdoor activities.
But participating to the “GRIMM workcamp” also means experiencing traditions that are maintained year after year: your stay will be punctuated by a welcome BBQ on the first day, a farewell BBQ on the last day, and, above all, your participation in the local festivities on August 15th. On August 15, Marche-en-Famenne indeed takes a leap back a century for a large “1900 market”, with old trades, old games, crafts and birds.

Project hosted by

GRIMM (standing for: Groupe d’Intérêt pour le Milieu Marchois – or: interest group for the environment of Marche, in English), is a local non-profit organization whose goal is to promote and preserve the living environment of the inhabitants of the municipality of Marche-en-Famenne by drawing inspiration from the principles of sustainable development. It works in collaboration with the municipality’s environmental department. For example, it takes care of securing sections of road for amphibians to cross during their annual migration. Each year, GRIMM also hosts a group of international volunteers to carry out small public utility improvements together (for example: building benches and picnic tables, footbridges, etc. on a local promenade) and renovating those from previous years.

Directions to meeting point

Saturday the 9th of August at the train station of Marche-en-Famenne at 3.40pm.

Additional comments

The project is very manual and takes place entirely outdoor, rain or sun; so be prepared to that