The Jury Prizes
Koninklijk Instituut voor doven en blinden, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
Cooking class for blind and visually-impaired young people
The Royal Institute for the Deaf and Blind cares for young people with special educational needs (visual and/or auditory limitations, autism). Group cooking occupies a major place within the autonomy training courses. The current kitchen infrastructure, however, no longer meets the necessary standards of hygiene, comfort and security. The room is old and run down. Along with a completely new basic infrastructure, there is a need for sufficient financial support in order to purchase handicap-specific aids. The Proximus Foundation will support this project in 2006.
Association des Exploits Sportifs, Brussels
Purchase of walkie-talkies to ensure the safety of sick children during excursions
The non-profit association’s object is to organise excursions so as to contribute to the physical and psychological well-being of seriously ill children. The project submitted to the Proximus Foundation is intended to finance the purchase of walkie-talkies to help ensure the safety of the children during excursions. The nursing staff that look after the children entrust them to a coordinator during excursions so that they can develop outside a hospital environment. The walkie-talkies would therefore be used to enable the nursing staff and the coordinator to stay in contact at all times during such excursions.
Point d'eau, Arlon
Installation of an outdoor terrace
The association provides a round-the-clock residential care service for 34 multi-disabled adults. To double the existing indoor living area, the association asked the Proximus Foundation to finance the building of an outdoor terrace which residents will be able to access in motorized wheelchairs.
Kompas, Kortrijk
Zero tolerance programme for drug use by minors
This project is an intensive collaboration between two non-profit associations. Vzw Kompas is a reception house for drug addicts and the Oranjehuis is a Special Young People´s Assistance facility. Both of these non-profit associations noted that normal programmes are not working effectively among young people. Kompas therefore wants to start up a zero tolerance programme under which the young people are regularly monitored. If the proposed programme is not followed, a corrective measure is imposed, ranging from a stay on a farm out in the country to enrolment in a drug rehabilitation programme. Financial support has been requested for the Proximus Foundation to pay for ´sober-fun´ activities and to cover the laboratory costs for testing urine samples.
De Kangoeroe, Melle
Kangaroo family weekend
The non-profit association De Kangoeroe is a home supervision service for children with a motor handicap or who run a risk of developing one. During the Whitsun weekend of 2006 they plan to go on a weekend with the families wishing to do so. They will provide for activities which are suitable for all children. For the parents they are planning a full and varied programme which includes a number of workshops. With this weekend, the non-profit association hopes to make the impossible possible: to go on a weekend with a seriously handicapped child, help parents and children to expand their limits and show that what they had never expected is nevertheless possible. However, such a weekend would not be possible without the Proximus Foundation’s support.
Arc-en-Ciel, Brussels
Operation Food Parcels
The non-profit association helps disadvantaged children and young people. Its object is to improve access for needy children and teenagers to leisure activities and holidays. Every year, the association organises food collections in favour of 253 associations and children’s homes with the help of youth movements (cubs, guides and “patros”). The association wants to give fresh impetus to the promotion and advertising of these food collections, by distributing 8000 plastic bags in Brussels and Walloon Brabant in order to encourage donors to prepare food parcels. The bags would also facilitate the collection process, both for door-to-door collections and collections from supermarkets. The budget submitted to the Proximus Foundation will cover the cost of manufacturing the plastic bags.
SARAH - Centre de Formation en Soins Palliatifs, Charleroi
Training for voluntary workers who provide support for terminally ill people
The non-profit association provides support for hospitalised people suffering from incurable diseases and their family. The training given to the voluntary workers is intended to help them deal with these terminally ill people in a neutral and cope more readily with bereavement. In 2004, 15 voluntary workers made 1103 visits in 12 months. The budget submitted to the Proximus Foundation will enable the association to train 20 additional voluntary workers.
Maison Maternelle Fernand Philippe, Wanfercée - Boulet
Help programme in favour of children who are victims of domestic violence
The non-profit association cares every year for more than 150 mothers accompanied by almost 300 children. These people suffer from serious psychological, physical, social and financial difficulties, often linked to domestic violence. The association provides them with individual aid, tailored to their specific needs. The children feel the sequels at different levels: physical, psychological, social and cognitive. The project submitted to the Proximus Foundation is intended to finance the cost of putting in place an aid programme involving psycho-educational staff to treat the children and develop ways of protecting them from the harmful consequences of being exposed to such violence (self-esteem, personal feelings, social skills). The programme will include the use of educational, game-playing material, books and video equipment.
Het Greet Rouffaerhuis, Merksem
The fire keeps burning inside
The Greet Rouffaerhuis is a centre for prevention and aftercare of burn patients. It is the only association in Belgium which offers such assistance. Firstly, the centre wishes to assist burn patients during and after their hospitalisation. Secondly, it wants to make the general public aware of the problematic and get them taking about it. ´The fire keeps burning inside´ is a prevention project for children age 5 and up. In collaboration with the Centrum Ervaringsgericht Onderwijs, the Greet Rouffaerhuis wants to put together a training package that consists of a prevention film, a book and a manual. The package is designed to make children aware of the dangers and the consequences of burns, and also to make the problematic more discussible, so that burn patients are accepted and better understood.
Antenne 110, Genval
Playground for children with serious behavioural problems
Antenne 110 is a therapeutic centre for children suffering from development problems and serious behavioural difficulties. The project submitted to the Proximus Foundation is for the installation of a new playground that satisfies safety standards. The current play area was installed 10 years ago and the new safety standards oblige the non-profit association to dismantle the existing structure despite its important recreational role and contribution to the development of the 18 children cared for by the centre.
Ter Wilgen, Kluisbergen
Installation of an adapted bathroom
Ter Wilgen organises the provision of services to handicapped adults. Over the past decade, the non-profit association has increasingly had to deal with a new subgroup among mentally-handicapped individuals, namely the very old. In one of the living homes an adapted bathroom must be installed with a high/low bath with hydromassage and a lift bath wagon in order to help individuals into and out of the bath more easily. Bathing not only ensures good personal hygiene, it also stimulates the blood circulation, is relaxing and helps preserve physical mobility.
Le Soleil Levant, Montignies-sur-Sambre
Restoration of a boutique for girls being trained for the clothing industry
The non-profit association organises vocational training and provides support for girls aged between 13 and 21 with behavioural problems. From the age of 15, the girls can receive training to prepare them for a job in the clothing industry. The premises used are now somewhat dilapidated: the premises need redecorating and at the same time the association would like to create a boutique to display the work of the girls and prepare them in a suitable environment for practical work placement experience.
‘t Spiegeltje, Asse
Renovation of attic for playing area
The non-profit association ´t Spiegeltje is a supervision home that offers residential reception and supervision to 15 children and young people between 3 and 18 years of age who come from a problematic family situation. In order to further develop the assistance offered to the residents, the non-profit association wants to create a large multipurpose playing and hobby area in the attic. Thanks to the Foundation’s support, the association will install an extra indoor stairway, a heating system and fire protection.
Mouvement Sans Nom, Brussels
Heating and lighting for the most disadvantaged
Le Mouvement Sans Nom helps the most disadvantaged by filling oil tanks and providing financial help to households that are unable to pay electricity bills that are too high. The project submitted to the Proximus Foundation is intended to renew oil-fired stoves which would enable the association to help 50 more families to cope with the harshness of winter and improve their living conditions.
Dagcentrum Sint Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas
Outer doors equipped with an automatic door opener
The Sint Niklaas day centre offers meaningful daytime activity to 100 mentally-handicapped adults. This daytime activity is embedded in a broader social and ortho-agogic framework, an emancipatory approach which entails that as much independence as possible be offered to the patients. 10% of the patients have, besides their mental handicap, an additional motor handicap which makes them dependent on a wheelchair. However, the patients´ freedom of movement is currently being impeded by the heavy outer doors. This problem can be remedied by installing an automatic door opener. Emancipation sometimes comes through small, everyday details which can nevertheless have a great impact.
Le Fouillis Saint-François, Gembloux
Creation of a social cafeteria
Le Fouillis Saint-François supports the most disadvantaged people by providing them with clothes, furniture, and assisting them with medical care and schooling needs. Its action helps approximately 250 people. To date it has operated from a covered yard. The project submitted to the Proximus Foundation is intended to convert a warehouse into a social cafeteria, with the installation of a kitchen and an office where the most destitute can discuss their problems in private. The budget covers mainly the equipment for these two rooms.
Projectenfonds Broeders van Liefde, Gent
Improvement of an outdoor area for children
Fioretti is alone in Flanders to offer an answer to the need of children (from 6 to 15 years of age) with psychiatric problems and an additional mental handicap for a specific treatment. With the aid of the Proximus Foundation, the non-profit association wishes through this project to transform the outdoor accommodation of the patients (currently limited to a paved playground and a bare patch of grass) into a multifunctional playing and living environment for every season. Eating, living and playing outdoors is not only fun, it is also necessary for the emotional, motor and social development of these children.
De Kiem, Oosterzele
Fitting out kitchens for studio flats
The therapeutic programme of "De Kiem" offers differentiated aid to persons who are experiencing problems due to the use of drugs, alcohol or medication. There is an outpatient service and a residential service. The project application concerns "De Tipi", a residential home for addicted women with young children. During the day, these women follow a programme in the therapeutic community, while in the evenings and on the weekends they are themselves responsible for raising their children. The non-profit association is currently constructing for "De Tipi" (among other things) a new building with four new studio flats. The project concerns fitting out the kitchens of these four studio flats.
Groupement d'Entraide Sociale La Famille, Brussels
Purchase of computer equipment to improve communication between children suffering from motor disabilities
The centre cares for some sixty children aged between 6 months and 13 with motor disabilities. They are unable to speak and the project submitted to the Proximus Foundation is intended to finance the acquisition of compute hardware and software specially adapted to their needs. The aim is to enable the children to develop their communication and continue their schooling with a programme tailored to their cognitive competences.
Vrienden van Windekind, Leuven
The windmobile
Along with general awareness-raising campaigns, each year this non-profit association gives financial support to the non-profit association Windekind, a centre for extraordinary care, the only facility in Flemish Brabant for schoolgoing children with a motor handicap. Windekind participates in a wide range of activities outside the centre. While with other children use can be made of public transport, this is impossible for children and young people who are confined to an electric wheelchair. Thus there is a very great need for purchasing a car adapted for transporting a wheelchair and a wheelchair lift.
vzw Jeugdtehuis, Kinrooi
"Safe playing equipment" project
The non-profit association Jeugdtehuis is an institution within the Special Youth Care sector which has two residential groups (the Hagenhoven home and the Relindis home) and one semi-residential group. The Relindis Home, where 6 children under 12 years of age reside, has an urgent need to replace its outdoor playing equipment, because the current ones are not safe. The team wishes to replace the current play castle with a climbing frame, 2 swings and a slide with a new safe jungle gym made of child-friendly materials.
Netwerk Palliatieve Zorg Limburg (NPZL), Hasselt
Purchase of 2 computers
The network is subsidised by the government to develop palliative care in the province of Limburg, and this in collaboration with all partners (home care, homes, hospitals, family, etc.). The non-profit association is requesting the support of the Proximus Foundation for the purchase of 2 computers on the occasion of hiring 2 new personnel members who will be responsible for psychosocial support of (among others) children who are losing someone in a palliative situation. A good accompaniment of such children gives them better chances of successfully dealing with their grief in the long run.
JEST (Jamais Eux Sans Toi), Brussels
The purchase of musical instruments
9 children with slight and moderate mental deficiencies, accompanied by 5 voluntary workers, will benefit from this 'instrumentarium Orff' in the framework of elementary musical education. This small percussion ensemble, together with singing and movement, favours the harmonious mental and physical development of children suffering from mental deficiencies.
Le Chat Botté, Incourt
Purchase of educational material and sundry equipment
Le Chat Botté runs a centre for very young children aged from 0 to 6 with development problems. The association’s priority is to promote the integration of children into normal schooling. The achievement of that objective depends on the quality of the care given to the children and their interactivity, from the earliest age, with their parents and the people supervising them. The association’s programme is monitored by a scientific committee which validates the association’s choices in order to enable other centres in Wallonia to benefit from the expertise acquired.
Tehuizen Voor Nazorg (TEVONA), Hasselt
Setting up a music centre for handicapped individuals
Tehuizen Voor Nazorg offers a differentiated range of residential accommodation and daytime activities to 320 mentally-handicapped adults in Limburg. With this project, one wishes to set up a centre that gives musical training to the 35 orchestra members of the Tenovaband. The musicians are mentally-handicapped adults, primarily from the non-profit association Tenova. Each year the Tenovaband gives ten performances in Flanders, with great success. There is a need for adapted musical equipment in order to improve the quality of the performances. In addition, the music room is also in very urgent need of refurbishing. The umbrella organisation Tenova cannot meet the above-mentioned needs.
Vereniging hart-en longgetransplanteerden, Edegem
PowerPoint presentation equipment
The non-profit association is a self-help group of heart, lung and liver transplantees whose goal is to encourage the donation of organs for transplant and to accompany transplantees before and after surgery. The non-profit association needs Power Point equipment for giving lectures in order to promote organ donation at various associations. The recent organ donation promotional campaign demonstrated how important it is to disseminate clear and reliable information.
APEPA - Association de Parents pour l'Epanouissement des Personnes Autistes, Namur
Weekends and holidays for ordinary and extraordinary children
The object of the APEPA is to favour the integration of autistic children and allow their parents a breathing space. It organises days out, weekends and holiday camps where, under the supervision of specially trained volunteers, ordinary children share the day-to-day life of autistic children, in a relationship of confidence. The budget will enable the association to organise breaks and holidays with a mixed group of children, where 14 coordinators will supervise a total of 25 children in structures adapted to the children’s disability.
Activeringscentrum TRAVO, Menen
Roof insulation for work room
The purpose of the non-profit association is to house and supervise persons with psychological problems and facilitate their integration into society. A major objective is to prepare them for a regular work situation. The workshop is subdivided into different work rooms where the activities are carried out. The larger working space must urgently be provided with effective roof insulation. During the winter it is sometimes difficult to reach and maintain even 13°C, which makes it effectively impossible to use the room in that period.
IMP Le Foyer des Orphelins, Liège
To replace the building’s roof as a matter of urgency
The association runs a home for 23 children aged from 6 to 16 from very disadvantaged segments of the population: impossibility to obtain reimbursement of medical, pharmaceutical or schooling costs from parents who have been placed under tutelage or deprived of their parental authority by the courts. The home’s roof is leaking: the temporary repairs made in recent years are no longer sufficient. There are damp stains on the walls and water is undermining the load-bearing walls. The budget requested from the Proximus Foundation will permit the association to replace the roof.
Belgische BrandwondenStichting, Wezembeek-Oppem
National Burn Camp
The non-profit association organises Easter training courses for burned children aged between 5 and 8, a survival camp for those aged over 17, a Christmas party and “reunion days” for the families of burned children. During the camps, the children learn to live with their differences and accept them to be able to develop within society. The project will allow the association to accompany between 70 and 100 children a year and provide them with (para)medical support up to adulthood.
Le Ressort, Mazy
Creation of a communal area for people suffering from cranial traumas or cerebral lesions and their close family and friends
Le Ressort provides daily care for 35 patients for periods ranging from 2 to 5 years. The traumas suffered lead to relationship difficulties and it is therefore essential to redefine in the most constructive way possible the relationship of victims with their children, spouses or family and close friends. The creation of a "Zen" communal area, with a corner set aside for children to play, will contribute to the aim of rebuilding relationships.
Oikonde, Kortrijk
Adaptation and protection of the lift
Oikonde´s centre receives and supervises the homeless (as well as psychiatric patients, ex-inmates, and so on). Their target group includes a sizeable number of older homeless who also have medical problems and/or who have difficulties getting around. Their institution has a lift which ensures that the centre is completely wheelchair-accessible. As a result of new legal regulations, they are obliged to invest a good deal more in order to protect the lift. If for financial reasons they are not able to adapt this lift, they will no longer be able to receive their target group. The Foundation’s will support them in 2006.
Cité de l'Espoir, Andrimont
"MOPSY" – the creation of a psychomotricity area
La Cité de l'Espoir is a residential centre that accommodates 310 people suffering from mental, motor and sensorial disabilities. The association arranges various activities adapted to the needs of its residents, who include both children and adults. The project submitted to the Proximus Foundation is intended to finance the creation of a psychomotricity area designed to promote the psychomotor development of the centre’s young residents, while favouring a convivial atmosphere of well-being.
De Tuimel, Berchem
Educational playing equipment to promote the parent-child relationship
De Tuimel is a family supervision centre for underprivileged and socially vulnerable families with young children between 0 and 6 years of age. The intention is to create additional learning possibilities and to work on the parent-child relationship. For this there is a great need for educational equipment adapted to the age of the children. The already-available playing equipment is old and worn out. New and modern playing equipment would better contribute to expanding the developmental opportunities of both children and their parents.