Bélgica

4683

Data de início: 01-02-2015

Data de fim: 01-08-2015

Vagas: 1

Duração: 6 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 15-08-2014

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: Our mission is to organise the humane, efficient, flexible and high-quality reception of asylum seekers in Belgium. The humane and respectful treatment of asylum seekers has first consideration. The number of asylum applications can vary sharply depending on the international political and economic situation. As an efficient and flexible organisation, the organization must be quick at repartee to anticipate and respond to changing reception needs. Finally, the quality of reception must at the very least comply with European standards.

Our organization is the first reception centre in Belgium for unaccompanied foreign minors (UFA). Those minors are not necessarily asylum seekers. The UFA are youngsters who arrive unaccompanied by parents or other adult relatives in Belgium. These minors left their country of origin and their family, and ended up by theirselves or with “strangers” in Belgium. These youngsters have several characteristics in common: they are alone, they speak a different language, they grew up in another culture, they are minor (usually adolescent), they left their country of origin and the fact that their stay in Belgium is temporary, makes their situation very uncertain.

The minors can stay in the centre for minimum two weeks up to one or two months, depending on their personal situation. Sometimes the duration is prolonged. We have a maximum capacity of 50 persons. This brief accomodation has several consequences. The youngsters are not enrolled as students in a school. We do want to make their day look like a day of an average Belgian minor. This means that the centre organises several activities during the day. Intensive language courses help the youngsters to express themselves and to communicate with Belgian people. In courses about general social orientation subjects they learn the elementary things about our society. Sports related activities serve as a positive release. We also set up a lot of workshops and we organise excursions to Belgian places of interest.


The centre has three big responsibilities.
1. gathering of information: in close consultation with the partner services, we try to find out if the youngster is indeed a minor, if the minor has or can receive identity papers, if the youngster is indeed unaccompanied.
2. observation: we try to create an image of the lifestory of every youngster by observing them in activities and consultation.
3. orientation: together with the caretaker we search the most suited residence for the minor.

Perfil: We expect from a volunteer the ability to cope with possible difficulties having to do with the specific charecteristics of the group. This group of people is an amalgam of ages, cultures, languages, religions, backgrounds, problems, … . Only one thing they all have in common: they have fled their own country and are staying only temporary in the centre. Therefore the volunteer needs to be open for other cultures and prepared to work with people of other cultures.
Age: 18-30

Tarefas: Everything you will do (classes, activities, individual contact with minors) has to be seen in the light of the role of the centre – observing the minors, getting to know them well, to be able to give them a good orientation after one month. Also, it requires being a good educator, since you help them rebuild a daily routine.

- education 20% : language classes (perhaps the volunteer can teach his/her language) – information for non-accompanied minors – study help for the school children – general social orientation subjects
- recreation 40%: music – sports – events – activities for specific target groups (girls,…) – library & internet
- ‘domestic’ tasks 30%: following up logistics (waking up of the minors, opening/closing of the rooms) – helping out in the second-hand shop – normally we don’t have to cook (external company), but sometimes we organise a cooking activity – helping out with registration and distribution of meals
- individual assistance 10%: every social worker has a closer contact with a certain number of minors. Every week several hours are spent for individual counsel and for listening to worries of the minors. The volunteer will also be encouraged to seek a closer contact with some of the minors who live here, if possible and/or desired. For the people in our centre closer contact means a great deal. They really need the special attention.

Horário: We work in shifts, from 8 am to 4 pm and from 1 pm to 9 pm. The volunteer needs to be flexible. Sometimes he/she will work from 9 till 17 o’clock, sometimes from 11 till 19 o ‘clock. There will be a maximum of 30 hours a week. We expect also some flexibility towards the tasks. A normal day can turn into something completely different because of unexpected things.

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês + Formulário

Download: 4683- Application Form.doc