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Belgique Belgique: Fedasil Rixensart (CBB07ESC)

Dates

22/10/2023   -   04/11/2023

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Enfants
Social
Environnement
2
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Âge
18 - 30
Nombre maximum de bénévoles
12
Encore de la place pour
2
Langues
Anglais
La nourriture végétarienne
Oui
Accès avec handicap
Oui
Aéroport le plus proche
Brussels (Bruxelles) (BRU)
Gare routière/ferroviaire la plus proche
Rixensart
Carte

Travail

The volunteers will give a hand and fresh ideas to the centre’s animation team.
They will be required to get actively involved in the daily life of the centre.
Half of the time the volunteers will propose and plan activities for children and teenagers (according to the population currently present in the centre). Some example could be: creative and artistic workshops, board games, walking excursions, going to swimming pool, sports and games, movies, cultural visits, …
To a lesser extent and depending on the weather forecast, volunteers will take part in gardening tasks in order to prepare for the winter. For example: last pickings, planting of seasonal vegetables, storage and cleaning of the site. Recently the centre started a vegetable garden project with and for the residents.
The management team of the centre is very well used to work with volunteers as they have been hosting this workcamp for many years.

Logement et nourriture

Accomodation
Volunteers will be lodged in a common room (dormitory) in a building next to the central one. Showers are accessible in the central building. A washing machine is also available. Volunteers will share the same living conditions of the residents and should be aware that the conditions are pretty “basic”.

Food
Self-catering. Take your own recipes and ideas. Please, be aware that meals have to be simple. You will have access to a small kitchen to cook your meals. Vegetarian or any other diet should be announced in advance in order to organise shopping.

Situation, loisirs

Rixensart is located in the Brabant Walloon province, 25 km from Brussels and 7 km from Waver. The zone is highly urbanised and has all the usual conveniences, Rixensart still keeps its countryside charm but one can feel the proximity of Brussels (40 minutes by train, 20 by car). Asylum seekers Centre is located outside the town centre, but at a walking distance from the famous local lake Genval, cinema, shops, supermarkets, train station…

Partenaire

The Rixensart Asylum Seekers Centre accommodates people or families who have asked for asylum in Belgium. Refugees come from Syria, Irak, Iran, Congo etc. Many of them fled from war or from countries that were under a dictatorship or devastated by an ecological disaster. Thus they came to Belgium with dreams of stability, richness and comfort life. It is not, however, that easy to be allowed to settle in Europe, especially for somebody from the South or the East. Before these people may start their new live, their refugee status has to be proven and accepted. While waiting for the document that will enable them to remain legally in our country, the immigrants are accommodated in this centre in the Brussels vicinity.
People living there await the solution concerning their administrative status. They never know what tomorrow may bring to them.
Therefore, residents often found themselves overwhelmed by feelings of relief and anguish, hope and disappointment. The life of Rixensart Asylum Seeker Centre reflects these individual dramas and hopefulness of residents.
Website (available in English): https://www.fedasil.be/en
This project is organized in line with several other volunteering teams hosted in refugees centre in Belgium. It aims to bring a small contribution to the welcoming of the residents as well as to permit the volunteers to learn about and be better aware of the realities of the migration policies.
By volunteering for this project, you are actively helping the centre welcome people coming from a wide variety of difficult situations and take care of them while they are waiting for a response to their asylum request (UN SDG 10 Reduced inequalities).

Itinéraire vers le point de rendez-vous

We advise you to use the site belgiantrain.be or download an app SNCB and use them for navigation and planning journey.
If you arrive to Bruxelles Zaventem airport, you can take the train on the train station under the airport and go from the station Bruxelles Airport to Rixensart.
If you landed in Bruxelles Charleroi, first you have to take a bus from the airport to the Charleroi Central train station. Then you have to take a train from Charleroi Central to the station Rixensart.

Commentaires additionnels

We warn the volunteers that the consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden inside the centre.

The volunteers are required to have basic knowledge of French.
Besides, it is necessary to have basic knowledge about group’s animation (songs, music, dance, plays…) and to be able to assume responsibility within a group. Be able to listen to others is very important there. This kind of workcamp is a very rich personal and human experience. It makes people aware of the complexity of certain social conditions related to the great inequalities on our planet.
In order to demonstrate this, we ask the candidate volunteers:
 to send a short motivation letter
 to answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organization)
 to send us a criminal record

We will not confirm any placement request before the analysis of these documents.

Remarques

This project is a volunteering team, supported by the European Solidarity Corps program of the European Union.
Compared to the usual workcamp participation scheme, some main financial and administrative
differences must be underlined:

  • The participation to the ESC volunteering teams is subjects to several principles and conditions, presented on the ESC webpage: https://europa.eu/youth/solidarity/mission_en
  • The volunteers do not have to pay any fee (not sending, nor participation fee) to attend the project
  • The volunteers will receive pocket money, calculated on basis of 4€/day, once they arrive on the project in Belgium
  • The volunteers will receive a financial support for their travel, according to a maximum amount established in accordance with their travel distance
  • The volunteers will have to send us their travel details 4 weeks before the beginning of the project as a confirmation of their participation
  • The volunteers need to register on the European Solidarity Corps Portal; CBB will organize their matching on the online system with the volunteering project
  • The volunteers will have to complete a participation report, submitted online by the ESC portal

We warn the volunteers that the consumption of alcohol is strictly forbidden inside the centre.

The volunteers are required to have basic knowledge of French.
Besides, it is necessary to have basic knowledge about group’s animation (songs, music, dance, plays…) and to be able to assume responsibility within a group. Be able to listen to others is very important there. This kind of workcamp is a very rich personal and human experience. It makes people aware of the complexity of certain social conditions related to the great inequalities on our planet.
In order to demonstrate this, we ask the candidate volunteers:
 to send a short motivation letter
 to answer our specific questionnaire (if you do not have it yet, please ask it to your sending organization)
 to send us a criminal record

We will not confirm any placement request before the analysis of these documents.

Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced Inequalities