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Data de início: 01-09-2015

Data de fim: 01-09-2016

Vagas: 2

Duração: 12 mes(es)

Data limite de candidatura: 01-03-2015

Financiamento: Financiamento por aprovar

Subsídio mensal (Dinheiro de bolso): 105 €

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Resumo: The hosting organization is the head organization of the five youth welfare organizations that work with socially disadvantaged children and youngsters. The town(now about 64 000 inhabitants) was only a small country village hundred year from now with no more than 2 000 inhabitants. 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 till then was organized by the mine company: shops, cafés, cinema, theater, fanfare, 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, 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...

But the most recent problem in the town has to face is the future closure of a factory (2014) what will have a big impact on the economy of limburg. There will be more then 10000 people without a job and a future prospective.

Information :
" 64.000 inhabitants
" 89 nationalities, multicultural environment
" Close by the Netherlands (Maastricht), Germany (Aachen)
" Train station and very good public transport connecting it to the main city's in Belgium
" Shopping Centres, cinema, cultural activities like museums and ...
" Nature park
" Close to university Hasselt

Perfil: Age: 17-30

Tarefas: We offer voluntary work for 4 volunteers, devided individual in the 5 different youth centers. The choice of youth center will be in communication between the volunteer and the responsible of evs.
The EVS volunteer will work with children,teens and youngsters.The choice of group will be in consulation between the volunteer and the evs responsible. Activities can be handycraft, indoor or outdoor games, educational activities, …
He/she will help in preparing, implementing and evaluate activities with the chosen groups.
So he/she can get to know the group and the staff. Beside these “basic” activities the volunteer will be involved with the projects running and volunteers can decide to create an own project.
We also offer social, artistic and cultural workshops, for example: photography, video editing, streettheater, dance, creative processes, … In the past they were a part of the different youth centers but from last year on they are a individual team and working more closely together. And we are still working on making it more concretely.

We believe that working with children,teens and youngsters is an ideal way of learning more about the way of living of the local people and the difficulites they have to face getting accepted by the society.
While a lot of our work with the children and the youngsters has 'learning Dutch' as an objective, it will be an extra support for the volunteer to learn our language to. Volunteers will be provided with Dutch lessons 5 days a week 2 hours a day. Dutch lessons will only be the first months of the project. We are convinced that the volunteer after these course has the basic knowledge of the Dutch language.

Condições: 1

Documentação: CV + Carta de Motivação em Inglês