Project
Centre Couleurs du Monde is a reception centre for asylum seeker of the Belgian Red Cross. At a time it can host up to 300 people who asked for asylum in Belgium. Their stay in the centre is temporary and lasts until their refugee status is proved or refused.
Centre provides such services as accommodation, food, educational courses, medical and social help, cultural, sport events etc.
To learn more about the Centre you can visit the Red-Cross web-site – http://www.croix-rouge.be/activites/asile-et-migration/nos-centres-d-accueil-pour-demandeurs-d-asile/couleurs-du-monde-rendeux/
The project 2016 will be the 9th in the history of the Centre.
Work
With the help of a staff member of the centre, your team will prepare and organize artistic activities linked with video editing. You’ll realize short films to highlight the diversity of talents inside the centre (volunteers included of course!): music, dance, sport…You’ll be in charge of writing the story, filming and editing… So feel free to come with your ideas.
Part of the time, your team will also prepare some activities for the children of the centre (handicraft, sport, games… feel free to come with your ideas too)
Accommodation
Accommodation will be provided in a classroom, turned into a dormitory, in the village school, located 300 m from the Red-Cross centre. Toilets and sinks will be at your disposal in the elementary school but showers will be in the centre. Smoking and alcohol drinking is strictly forbidden inside the school and the Red-Cross centre as well as in their close surroundings.
Food
Food will be provided, relax – no cooking! Pork is not cooked in the centre. If you keep a vegetarian diet – you are welcome as well, just let us know.
Location
Rendeux is a countryside village that lies in the country’s Walloon Region and Luxembourg Province and accounts up to 2,500 inhabitants. The village of Rendeux is located in the valley of the Ourthe river, which attracts many visitors both for its natural beauty and for such nearby medieval villages as La Roche-en-Ardenne (11km) and Durbuy (18km). For more details, please, visit: www.rendeux.be
The closest train station is 8km away – Melreux-Hotton (there is a bus, running till train station – just 10minutes).
Belgium is quite small and cozy country, most cities and nice places are easy reachable by train.
Brussels is about 2h30 away from Rendeux.
Meeting Point
Melreux-Hotton train station at 2.00pm
Camp language
English, some notions of French will be useful, and also you can find here a lot of people from all over the world, you can discover numerous of other languages! Facial expression, sign language and emotional interjections may help you in any situation! Feel free!
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