The social and cultural coordination of the Saint-Marguerite District aims at harmonising the actions of the 15 associations it groups together, in view of improving the district inhabitants' living conditions. It consists of : three homework support schools, a mental health club, a medical house, a resource centre, numerous literacy groups, a day nursery, a youth club and arts centre, a Liège town youth helping centre, an information and reception centre and a social help service. The coordination also keeps an educational tools library which its members may refer to.
One of the coordination member association called "l'Orchidée Rose" (The Pink Orchid) will be part of the EVS project, its actions consisting in organising Turkish and French courses so as to make both cultures more familiar to each other. It manages a reception place for children as well as various types of activities such as a folk team, a do-it-yourself workshop, an educational initiation place, some affternoon walks, a painting or fresco workshop.
According to his/her motivation and personality, the young European volunteer will be given a possibility to show his/her talents and skills and to increase his/her knowledge in various fields:
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This helping centre for young people is a social service located in a cosmopolitan district where people from about forty different nationalities live side by side. The Centre welcomes the young from 0 to 18 and aims at integrating them. At the same time, the second-hand shop "Les Frusques" (a humorous word meaning clothes) enables to integrate families and to talk more easily about the projects of the Centre itself in a different context.
In this Centre, various entertainment activities are available when schools are closed, cultural visits, sight-seeing or sports trips, for children and their parents, as well as a playing area for smaller children.
According to the different projects and their specificity, the association works with a social worker, an educational worker, some trainees from social staff schools.
The young volunteer may :
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North-South Health is based on people's respect for cultural diversity, equal opportunities, solidarity and integration of people with different foreign backgrounds. Through training activities, information about their rights and responsibilities, as much as social and cultural arbitration and health promotion.
Its working team includes six paid workers supported by two volunteers.
The young European volunteer may :
He/she will have an opportunity to learn how to work in team in a multi-cultural context. The people working in this association come from seven different countries : Congo, Burundi, Belgium, Mauritania, Mali, Yugoslavia, Ivory Coast.
Besides, the young volunteer will also have a possibility to create his/her own project about visual deficiency awareness through various means like a glasses collecting, which could take place in a school, for example, as part of an international solidarity project.
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The IRHOV is a primary and secundary school in specialized education for auditory and visually impaired young people aged 3 to 21. It can also bring a specialized support to visually impaired youngsters who are being taught in an ordinary school. And it conducts pilot projects for sensory impaired children with associated impairments.
The schoold also sets up a number of cultural and sport activities adapted to sensory impairment. And it ensures the link with the families.
Tasks of the young volunteer :
The school's philosophy is one of helping each one to maximalize the development of their potentialities through developping autonomy and self-insurance, solidarity, openness to the others and their culture, creativity and communication, curiosity and the taste for discovering.
The team of teachers feels very much like having its visually impaired children being in contact with a young volunteer who is himself visually impaired. The children will thus be able to concretly realize that there are perspectives for them of an autonomous life, of European mobility, of work shared with sighted people. Also, the youngsters will discover another culture and will be able to compare it with theirs. The moments for exchange will be numerous and will favour cultural discovery and multicultural work.
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