SCI Belgium is urgently looking for a ESC volunteer to join their team
ESC in Brussels
SCI Belgium is urgently looking for an ESC volunteer that would come to Brussels and work within their team for 6 months.
📍Where: SCI Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
📆 Period: 1 June (or asap after this date) – 30 November 2024
⏰ Apply asap
This project is for you if you would like to:
- Work at the SCI Belgium and become part of an amazing team
- Participate to workcamps in the summer as a camp coordinator
- Become a trainer and facilitator of pedagogical tools in high schools and universities
- Learn about Belgium, meet volunteers and activist’s groups to raise awareness about important topics such as development inequalities, inclusion, migration, gender, etc.
Here is the link to the description on the youth portal: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/placement/37039_en and you can find more information below.
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
SCI Belgium is an NGO and a youth organization whose mission is to promote peace, intercultural understanding, solidarity, inclusion, social justice and ecology through voluntary projects and educative work. SCI Belgium organises international volunteering exchanges, local voluntary activities in Belgium, awareness activitites on peace, intercultural learning, citizen mobilisation. Activities will be organized in Brussels and in the region of Wallonia, where the SCI Belgium organizes its activities: international (workcamps) and local volunteering (one day volunteering, local activists who organize different activities in link with the citizen mobilisation); awareness raising activities in schools and associations; trainings. The ESC volunteer will be involved in the daily work of the organization: organization and participation to workcamps and one day volunteering activities, trainings and facilitation in schools by using raising awareness tools, participation to activists groups.
ACCOMMODATION, FOOD AND TRANSPORT ARRANGEMENTS
The ESC volunteer will be accomodated in a shared flat (for students or community flat). She/he will have a proper room and a kitchen available to cook her/his own food. Pocket money and allowance for food and local transportation will be provided.
TRAINING DURING THE ACTIVITY
The ESC volunteer will participate to trainings organized by the SCI Belgium: camp coordinator trainings, pedagogical tool trainings, facilitation techniques. The volunteer will attend French online courses to improve their level of the language (having a basic knowledge of French is an asset). The volunteer will also have the opportunity to learn about how an NGO works and propose new ideas of activities in link with the aims and values of the SCI.
PARTICIPANT PROFILE
No specific skills are required but the candidates should have motivation towards volunteering activities and be eager to improve their French language level and learn about the main topics of the organisation: interculturality, social inclusion, global citizenship, peace education, awareness raising activities …
APPLY
Send your application through the ESC portal. For any questions you can contact Sergio.
Explore more news
World Heritage Volunteers (WHV), Mozambique
This report describes in detail the activities carried out on the Island of Mozambique, Nampula Province between September 17 and October 2 of the current year. The activities carried out are part of the World Heritage Volunteers Program. Since the Island of Mozambique is a site declared by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage, the involvement of all is essential for its conservation, so AJOV and...
Is there a strong man here?
Pacifism, solidarity, friendliness, ecology, diversity and citizenship. These are the six values of SCI. This movement, now 100 years old, has witnessed many struggles and social changes and has also evolved over time. SCI advocates inclusiveness, equality and acceptance for all. So I was surprised to read, in an account of a volunteer project from the 1960s, that “men dealt with the physical...
Decolonizing is an active process, not a passive one
Interview with Sara Vaca, an Equatorian volunteer living in Austria. The interview was conducted in Brussels during a CCIVS event addressing decolonizing volunteering. Sara has already produced extensive work on decolonizing volunteering issues with SCI Austria, and here she is presenting key ideas to keep in mind when working towards greater reciprocity in collaboration with Global South’s...
