Theme 2: Environment and climate changing

Project period

ESC activity will start on 01/02/2019 for duration of 12 months

The Hosting Organization

The CFP (Centre de formation professionnelle –Professional Training Centre) Famenne Ardenne is a non-profit organisation recognised and financed by the “Walloon agency for the inclusion of disabled people” and supported by the “European Social Fund”.

Our aim is to help our “trainees” in finding a job and to foster their inclusion in our society.

Our target public is not only made up by people with disabilities (most of our centre users do not have any visible handicap) but also by lots of people who can’t find a job and are in risk of exclusion for many different reasons.

We work for and with weak, excluded, sick, disabled and poor people and people who have in general difficulties in looking for a job in nowadays labour market.

The CFP offers its users a professional training, both theoretical and practical, according to each one’s personality, preferences, interests, abilities and needs. Thanks to a multidisciplinary staff composed by social workers, psychologists and technical trainers, we can offer our beneficiaries professional trainings in these specific fields: professional cleaning, laundry, car wash, gardening and agriculture.

 

 

EVS (Erasmus+) and now European Solidarity Corps experience

This will be the third time that CFP will host an ESC volunteer.

Actually we are not alone in this adventure: we are supported by our coordinating organization, the association of Compagnons Bâ tisseurs, which has a strong experience in the ESC program. We really believe that our centre aims, functions and working methods fit very well with the philosophy and values of the ESC program as respect, inclusion, youngsters skills development, responsible and active citizenship, non-formal education.

 

Location of the project

Our centre is located in Marloie, in a semi-rural area. The closest town, the one where the volunteer will live, is Marche-en-Famenne, 5 kilometres away from Marloie.

Marche-en-Famenne is a small town situated in the south French speaking part of Belgium. With about 17 000 Inhabitants, the municipality of Marche counts with numerous villages: Hollogne, Waha, Verdenne, Champlon-Famenne, Grimbié mont, Ligniè res, Roy, On. 

The volunteer will be in contact with all the other ESC volunteers being hosted in the other projects in the municipality of Marche-en-Famenne.

Even if Marche offers all the modern facilities, it is however IMPORTANT to know that the town it’s very quiet and that it’s not the best place to stay for the urban life-style lovers.

The nightlife here is less vivid than in bigger towns.

Nevertheless, Liè ge, Namur or Brussels are not far from Marche which has very good train connection.

 

The project

We mainly expect from our ESC volunteer to accompany, support and help our technical trainers in organizing and leading all the trainings ( professional cleaning, laundry, car wash, gardening, agriculture… ) we offer to our public. At the beginning the volunteer will take the time to discover all what we do in CFP and then s/he will choose the activities s/he will be more interested in!

The volunteer will have many practical learning opportunities. Her/his work in CFP will be mostly practical/manual.

For example, by taking part in our trainings of ‘gardening and agriculture’ the volunteer will learn about the techniques of preparation of soils, seeding and plantations; taking part in the training ‘blanchisserie’ s/he will learn how to run professional laundry and ironing activities and so on…

No matter which activities the volunteer will chose to do, s/he will for sure acquire skills in working with disabled and disadvantaged people.

The volunteer will be completely integrated in our team; s/he will mainly support us in the organization of the trainings but also in the implementation and promotion of leisure activities such as journeys, games, outdoor activities and cultural events for the users of our center.

If desired the volunteer will take part in our educational meeting; s/he will help us in the evaluation of our trainees’ development.

 

The aim of his/her presence in our center is to offer our people the possibility to open themselves to another culture, another dimension.

The volunteer is expected to help us in improving the group cohesion, bringing new ideas and working actively for a stronger inclusion of our people. To reach this goal s/he will be warmly encouraged to collaborate with the other young people who volunteer in CBB projects, focused on the topic of disabled people inclusion.

During the project the volunteer will receive all the support needed: s/he will have a mentor who will help him/her in opening a bank account, finding a French course, enrolling him/herself to the city hall and s/he will have of course also technical support during the work.

 

 

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