European Voluntary Service in French-speaking Belgium!
Dear partners,
please find here below a description of the EVS available places JAVVA can offer throughout its network of
local partners. If any of your volunteers is interested in these projects, we would be happy to receive their
application and learn more about them.
There are 11 EVS placements that are available.
We wish to apply for April 30th, 2015 deadline.
Most projects start in September 2015 and last 12 months.
Please check for details in each section.
Some projects involve direct contact with a disadvantaged
public. This means that we ask volunteers to have a
beginner/intermediate level of French in order to guarantee a
smooth integration in these projects.
Volunteers are required to choose one project and to send us a CV and a project-related motivation letter.
You can send them to our incoming officer, Laura : [email protected]
Deadline for applications is the 10th of March, 2015!
Looking forward to hearing from you,
JAVVA team
JAVVA asbl
JAVVA asbl is a youth organisation based in Brussels, Belgium. We aim to promote an
ideal of tolerance, solidarity and peace between young people from around the world
and to encourage their active participation and mobility.
Our main activities include international camps, EVS, long term volunteering, local
events and trainings. As of 2009, our priorities have been defined as being about
migrations and social inclusion.
For more information visit: www.javva.org
[email protected]  [email protected]
14, rue Raphaël 1070 Bruxelles Belgique  Tél : 0032 (0)2 478 29 19  Fax : 0032 (0)2 478 03 74
Numéro de compte : 068-2491121-91  IBAN code : BE23 0682 4911 2191  BIC/SWIFT code : GKCCBEBB
2013-BEFR-41
Centre for asylum seekers Fedasil in Rixensart (Brabant Wallon)
12 months starting September 1st, 2015 (2 places)
The reception centre is located at 25km from Brussels and can host
up to 140 residents including about 20 unaccompanied minors.
There are different kind of services which are offered to the
residents, among which social support, medical service, reception,
school support and leisure time activities.
Volunteers will integrate the service of leisure activities, whose
aims are, on the one side, to support children and teenagers in
their schooling and, on the other, to organise leisure time activities,
mainly in the social and cultural field, for the residents. Some
activities in the neighbourhood are also carried out, whose aim is
to raise awareness in the local community about asylum seekers.
Volunteers will work with children and with adults.
With children: volunteers will co-organise and co-lead after-school activities, inside or outside the centre, workshops
according to their abilities and to the needs of residents (games, DIY workshops, help with homework,...). With adults
(and more specifically with women): volunteers will be asked to organise different kind of activities (from sports to
social activities or cultural happenings) according to their interests and and possibilities within the centre.
Accommodation in a shared flat in Brussels (volunteers may share a bedroom with another EVS volunteer)
Due to the current asylum policy in Belgium, the number and the profile of the residents can be subject to
changes beyond control of the centre and JAVVA. We are therefore looking for flexible volunteers with a
good capacity for adaptation as the content of the project may differ from the description.
2013-BEFR-42
Facere – Daycare centre accommodating adults with cerebral palsy (Brussels)
6 or 12 months starting September 1st, 2015 (1 place)
Facere is a daycare centre for adults with cerebral palsy. The centre
hosts about 30 people who need physical, psychological and social
care. The institution is located at the edge of the Brussels Region in
Anderlecht, next to the Erasmus Campus university hospital.
The volunteer will integrate the team of workers that runs workshops
related to gardening, cooking, computer science, art-deco, musicals ,
painting, world studies and inter-cultural exchanges, radio, the
making of animated films, cyclo-dance, etc. as well as various athletic
activities and cultural outings. He/she will also be able to suggest new
types of activities and participate in their planning.
It is important for the volunteer to be sincerely interested in an understanding of the difficulties associated with
living with a handicap and capable of working in this sort of environment.
Accommodation in a shared flat in Brussels (volunteer may share a bedroom with another EVS volunteer)
[email protected]  [email protected]
14, rue Raphaël 1070 Bruxelles Belgique  Tél : 0032 (0)2 478 29 19  Fax : 0032 (0)2 478 03 74
Numéro de compte : 068-2491121-91  IBAN code : BE23 0682 4911 2191  BIC/SWIFT code : GKCCBEBB
2013-BEFR-12
Centre for asylum seekers Fedasil “Petit Château” in Brussels
12 months starting September 1st, 2015 (1 place)
Petit Château is a reception centre located in Brussels, along the canal. It can host up to 830 asylum seekers, which
makes it the largest open centre of Belgium. Residents sleep in dorms (if they’ve arrived alone) or in private
apartments (if they’ve arrived with their family). Most of them are single men, but there are women, families and
even minors without their parents. Their nationality is very diverse, coming from all over the world. Petit Château
employs about 100 staff members, both French as Dutch speaking.
While part of the Buro Bizzi team, the volunteer will have a particular task at Petit Château. He/she will bring those
little extras the professional staff isn't able to bring. The volunteer can organise new activities or continue already
existing activities. Possible tasks at the Buro Bizzi:
 organising activities for adults and minors
 sport activities for adults (mainly soccer, volleyball, table tennis,
fitness)
 other trainings: sewing, dancing, painting, language lessons
 IT: helping out with starting up computers, helping to find
information about the country of origin
 daily life orientation: how to take a bus, how to read a map,...
Accommodation in a shared flat in Brussels (volunteer may share a bedroom with another EVS volunteer)
Due to the current asylum policy in Belgium, the number and the profile of the residents can be subject to
changes beyond control of the centre and JAVVA. We are therefore looking for flexible volunteers with a
good capacity for adaptation as the content of the project may differ from the description.
2013-BEFR-16
L'Enfance de l'Art – Nursery & kindergarten (near Tournai)
12 months starting end of August, 2015 (4 places)
"L’Enfance de l'Art" is a non profit organisation whose aim is to
help parents to become more involved in their children's
education. To that purpose, the organisation set up hosting
facilities for children or people with reduced autonomy, leisure
workshops, nurseries, schools. The organisation uses alternative
pedagogies (Steiner & Loczy). One volunteer will work in a
nursery (0-3 years) and three others will be in a kindergarten (36 years).
With the support of the educators, volunteers will carry out different kind of activities with the children: painting,
drawing, fairy tales and nursery rhymes (volunteers can share some in their own language), making cakes and
breads, outdoor games, crafts, walks in woods,...
It is important for the volunteer to be sincerely willing to work with children under 7 years, and have related
qualities: be smiling, gentle, helpful, attentive, responsible, creative and loving, loving crafts,...
Accommodation: in a collective housing or in a host family near or in Tournai
[email protected]  [email protected]
14, rue Raphaël 1070 Bruxelles Belgique  Tél : 0032 (0)2 478 29 19  Fax : 0032 (0)2 478 03 74
Numéro de compte : 068-2491121-91  IBAN code : BE23 0682 4911 2191  BIC/SWIFT code : GKCCBEBB
2015-BEFR-XX (waiting for accreditation number)
Altérez-Vous - Responsible Café in Louvain-la-Neuve (Brabant Wallon)
12 months starting September 1st, 2015 (1 place)
This alternative café is a non-profit cooperative with social purpose. The project of turns around 3 dimensions:
- Friendly atmosphere: open to any kind of public, organisation of diverse entertainment activities (board game
nights, concerts, free stages, knitting workshops, conversation groups, writing workshops,...). Altérez-Vous is a place
to meet, share and interact with others. These activities are open to everyone and new ideas are always welcome.
- Responsible consumption: the café gives priority to local, seasonal, organic and fair products.
- Awareness to societal issues (the main objective of Altérez-Vous): organisation of debates, conferences, group
discussions, meetings with local farmers, awareness events,...
Examples of tasks for the volunteer:
 to help with the organisation and the promotion of
cultural activities (thematic nights, concerts,
exhibitions, intercultural activities,...)
 Awareness to societal issues directly with the clients
and through the organisation of conferences,...
 Development of local, organic and fair trade by helping
the staff to find new products
Volunteers will also have the opportunity to develop a personal project related to the café's values.
Accommodation: in a host family in Louvain-la-Neuve.
2012-BEFR-17
Caritas "Logis de Louvranges" for asylum seekers for women and children (Brabant Wallon)
12 months starting September 1st, 2015 (2 places)
The project in Louvranges consists of hosting female asylum seekers, single or with children in 22 apartments. The
team assists the residents in the legal, social and medical field. The goal is to give the mothers a maximum of
autonomy starting from their own capacity in order to be ready to leave the Logis and start an independent life.
Volunteers will be working with the service of leisure activities to carry out activities for the children and the women
of the centre. Their main tasks will be:
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to help with the organisation of the daycare within the centre and
to suggest activities for children (0-3 years old);
to co-lead and to co-organise activities for children (creative and
artistic workshops, sports activities,...);
to develop a bicycle workshop (lessons, rules of the road,...);
to co-organise workshops with families in order to improve
communication and community harmony (cooking workshop or
any other activities that volunteers want to organise).
Volunteers will also have the opportunity to develop a personal project linked to the centre's values if they want to.
Accommodation: the two volunteers will share a flat within the centre (and they will share the same bedroom)
Due to the current asylum policy in Belgium, the number and the profile of the residents can be subject to
changes beyond control of the centre and JAVVA. We are therefore looking for flexible volunteers with a
good capacity for adaptation as the content of the project may differ from the description.
[email protected]  [email protected]
14, rue Raphaël 1070 Bruxelles Belgique  Tél : 0032 (0)2 478 29 19  Fax : 0032 (0)2 478 03 74
Numéro de compte : 068-2491121-91  IBAN code : BE23 0682 4911 2191  BIC/SWIFT code : GKCCBEBB