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Data de início: 01-05-2013

Data de fim: 01-11-2013

Vagas: 1

Duração: 6 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 13-11-2012

Financiamento: Candidatura

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Resumo: Jeugdwerk Nieuw Sledderlo is one of the five organisations in the town that work with socially disabled children and youngsters. The town (now about 63.000 inhabitants) was only a small country village a hundred years from now with no more than 2.000 inhabitants. Until André Dumont discovered the black gold of the 20th century: coal. This resulted in a new industry which changed this part of Belgium forever. No less than 6 coal mines were built in the middle of Limburg of which 3 in the town. It changed the town from a rural area into an important industrial town. With a lot of problems: first the coal mines needed a lot of employees. But working in the mine was hard labour and very unhealthy. Belgian people were not fond of working 'down under'. So the coal mines had to look for people in other parts of Belgium and even Europe. Before World War II they were found in the Eastern part of Europe: Poland, Eastern Germany, Russia,...

Later the Belgian government made a deal with Italy, Spain and Greece. There were a lot of poor people without a job in these countries and they got a lot of benefits if they were willing to come to Belgium to work in the mines. From 1968 to 1975 the same was done with Turkey and Morocco. This resulted in an enormous population of 'strangers' in the town. As long as the mines were open, this was no problem because under the ground everybody was 'black'. Above the ground, this 'fellowship' continued. Until 1985-1987: all mines were closed at this moment and suddenly there was no future for a lot of families in the town.

Living together suddenly seemed more difficult than before because everything until then was organised by the mine company: shops, cafés, cinema, theater, brass-band, school,... it was all controlled by the coal mines. But now this was all history. And because of the unemployment which was a result of this, problems accumulated. But more, now it became clear that no one had ever done any effort to integrate people from the other countries because in the mines there was no need to. Now however the differences between the cultures became very clear. Even children in these families, born in Belgium didn't speak Dutch and had a lot of problems at school...

Information :
63.000 inhabitants
89 nationalities, multicultural environment
Close by the Netherlands (Maastricht), Germany (Aachen)
Train station en very good public transport connecting it to the main city's in Belgium
Shopping Centres, cinema, cultural activities like musea and ...
Grand National Limburgs Nature parc
Close to university Hasselt

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em inglês