The Jury Prizes
Maison maternelle du Brabant Wallon - Ottignies
Music workshop for children in difficulties.
This
house receives adults (young mothers, future mothers, pregnant minors)
in difficulty and their children. The aim of this non-profit
organisation is to buy instruments to hold a music workshop for the
children in order to work on the mother-child/father-child relationship
through the universal language of music. The workshop, which is called
“Cœur à peau” is a place where children, who are usually the victims of
mistreatment, can express their emotions and say what has been left
unsaid. Having the mothers present helps strengthen the emotional bond,
as well, as they laugh, play, hold the children in their arms, etc. In
partnership with Jeunesses Musicales.
Cité de l'Espoir - Andrimont
"Sensory pathway".
The
Cité de l'Espoir accommodates young people with severe and deep-seated
mental handicaps in an appropriate living environment, focusing on each
one’s abilities rather than their handicaps. The aim of this non-profit
organisation is to create a pathway of discovery through nature,
scattered with fun activities along the way. Hence there is an area
with different smells, a world filled with fragrant plants; an area
with mobiles enabling the youngsters to discover wind-chimes,
carillons, cow-bells, windmills of every kind; an area with motricity
skill games and a rest and encounter area surrounded by tubs of
flowers.
Téléservice - Service Enfants gravement Malades "Prendre un enfant par la main" - Brussels
The "BandAid Circus".
This
association helps disadvantaged children suffering from serious
diseases (AIDS, cystic fibrosis, kidney dialysis, organ transplants,
cancer, etc..), by offering various services, ranging from providing
transport and assistance to families to entertainment for the ill
youngsters. The "Sparadras Circus" or BandAid Circus is part of this
entertainment: this troupe of clowns visits hospitals, homes for
disadvantaged children and centres for handicapped children. This
non-profit organisation relies mainly on donors and aims to create a
system and intensify training to improve the quality of the shows and
activities still further. In partnership with La Maison du Livre and
the Municipal Library of Saint-Gilles.
Infor Femmes, Association d'Information, d'Aide et d'Education Sociale, Culturelle pour la Femme, le Couple et la Famille - Brussels
Reading to grow up.
The
purpose of Infor Femmes is to provide everyone with the means to
develop and achieve a better status and a more fulfilled life. This
non-profit organisation operates with public solidarity and
conviviality, working on the multicultural and trans-generational
aspects. As part of the "Read and grow up" programme, volunteer lady
readers read stories out loud to disadvantaged children aged between 5
and 10. The project is developing in school day-care centres,
after-school homework centres and hospitals (in child psychiatry
departments). These sessions bring the children a little peace and
quiet as they learn to listen and concentrate and look at the
illustrations. Sometimes they are asked to come up with their own
pictures that go with the story. The reading sessions then lead to a
creative workshop. In 6 to 8 sessions, the children are then able to
produce their own book. The organisation is asking for support to
provide training for people to read out loud.
Les Enfants de la différence - Soignies
Instruments adapted for the music workshop for mentally handicapped children.
This
association constitutes a network of mutual aid for the families of
children suffering from a mental handicap (Down’s syndrome, autism,
etc.): it organises activities for these children and also aims to
raise awareness and provide general information. The non-profit
organisation is looking to buy instruments that are suitable for an
ongoing music workshop for these children at the Soignies Music
Academy. This type of activity stimulates musical awareness and helps
improve the children’s quality of life. Project in partnership with La
Chantrerie, "Les enfants de la Différence" and "Horizons" non-profit
organisations, as well as the Soignies Music Academy.
Maison Maternelle l'Espérance - Kain
Open-air health circuit and psychomotricity area.
This
nursery institution welcomes mothers having difficulties with their
children (including mothers-to-be) in order to help them regain their
social independence while preserving the bond between mother and child.
All of the children who live here have experienced particularly
unfortunate family situations and the social and educational activities
do them a great deal of good: they learn to express themselves, let off
steam, occupy themselves, forget and have fun through play. The
non-profit organisation wishes to buy appropriate toys (for children
aged 3 to 12) and sports modules (for the older children) for the
psychomotricity and play area in the grounds adjoining the house. The
project has already begun thanks to aid from the Confrérie des 5
Clochers and the Club Fifty One in the region.
EXIL - Centre de Santé mentale - Brussels
Weekend and courses for 50 exiled children and 50 exiled adolescents.
This
centre offers medical, psychological and social guidance for refugees
and victims of torture. The association also offers medical
consultations to children and adolescents. Its aim is to organise 2
therapeutic community courses and a weekend. This type of stay promotes
participation in social life in a secure environment and with
professional supervision for children and young people who have been
confronted with and who have been enrolled to take part in organised
violence in their own country. This helps reduce symptoms such as
loneliness, turning in on oneself, sleeping problems, nightmares,
dietary problems, feelings of insecurity and anguish, difficulties in
learning and at school, as well as the inability to see oneself having
a future. Each child/young person is able to reinforce their feeling of
belonging to a group and a community. Depending on their age and
situation, the children will be accompanied or not by their parents,
the aim at all times being to rebuild a social fabric for the child.
ARVH Théâtre - Brussels
Speaking walls.
The
aim of the association is to bring art into schools through the
creation and performing of shows that mix theatre and plastic arts for
young people who have just arrived in the country or who have come
through immigration. The non-profit organisation seeks to enable the 17
pupils in the illiteracy class at the Athénée Royal Victor Horta to
create a fresco in the playground at the school, which will form the
set for the show being put on by the year 3, general French as a
foreign language, class. This class is often left to one side and
requires special teaching for the children to be able to understand and
be understood. It is also a fun way of learning French “differently”.
In partnership with Nicolas Viot (illustrator) and Isabelle Monoyer
(plastic artists).
Sémaphore - Brussels
Draw me a book.
Sémaphore
is an after-school homework organisation accredited by ONE. It
organises social, cultural and sporting activities for promoting
encounters and exchanges between young people of foreign origin. The
project submitted to the Proximus Foundation revolves around reading.
The budget will be used to buy equipment for the following activities:
creation of a comfortable reading area, a workshop for creating books,
partnership with the schools as part of a literary prize, reading
workshop and supplies of school books for the homework school.
Paroles d'Ados.be - Brussels
Revamp of the www.parolesdados.be website.
This
organisation provides prevention and information and conducts
programmes to promote health, well-being and quality of life among
young people aged 11 to 24. It provides young people with a place to
express themselves, obtain information and ask questions under the
supervision of professionals. The association’s main tool is its
interactive website. For technical reasons and “natural” development,
as well as to fit in better with its target audience, the time has come
for the organisation to review this portal in depth so that it can
provide greater user-friendliness, better access and new functions. The
ultimate aim, of course, is to increase traffic to the site and reach a
greater number of adolescents with questions and issues to resolve.
Parrain Ami - Ottignies
Sponsoring children for better integration.
Parrain
d'Ami is an organisation that promotes the sponsoring of disadvantaged
children aged 0 to 12 by families that can bring them structure and a
fulfilling background in order to avoid more expensive interventions
(placement in institutions or foster families). The non-profit
organisation is contacted directly by the social services and youth aid
department, by the families or by accommodation institutions.
Assistance from the Proximus Foundation will allow the organisation,
which has existed for the past 10 years thanks to various support
initiatives, to expand its activities to meet a growing number of
requests.
Solidarité et alternatives nouvelles - Braine-L'Alleud
Teaching youth to read and write at the IPPJ in Wauthier-Braine.
The
association provides local services (homework school, school mediation,
learning to read and write, homecare, etc.). The current literacy
project involves young people in difficulty of all nationalities and
aims to teach them French as a tool for integrating or re-integrating.
These are young, socially excluded delinquents who have often dropped
out of school. The aim is to give them back a taste for learning by
monitoring their progress individually. The funding being requested
will be used to train two course presenters who will go to the IPPJ in
Wauthier-Braine 2 days a week (at the request of the school).
SUR'Cité - Liège
Créasourds.
SUR'Cité
promotes and develops social and cultural exchanges between the deaf or
hard of hearing and people who can hear. It also works towards
safeguarding cultural heritage and sign language. Créasourds is a
project provided to children who are deaf, hard of hearing and with
normal hearing (6 to 12): it is a place for exchange and communication
(sign language, verbal communication), as well as for artistic
creation. The work produced serves as a method of expression. The
project is already underway, but is requesting more resources so that
it can be set up for the long term. The success of the initiative
depends mainly on assistance from donors.
Couleur Café - Malmédy
Back to life in the garden.
This
non-profit organisation helps create social bonds, provides assistance
with re-integration and promotes solidarity and the exchange of
knowledge through the running of a community garden, a linked kitchen
workshop using vegetables from the garden, distributing communal meals,
organising social offices and many other projects. Couleur Café is also
aimed at children and young people in difficulty. Through its communal
gardens, the association seeks to create a pool of learning for
children so that they can develop an awareness of nature; it also aims
at restoring a workshop with the youngsters so that they can have their
own activity space. These are places for the children to meet away from
tensions and conflicts so that they can experience an energising
activity and regain a positive image of themselves.
La Spirale, Centre d'animation et de diffusion culturel et touristique - Natoye
Ways of the world – a link.
La
Spirale is a cultural centre operating in various villages and hamlets
in Hamois and the surrounding area: it promotes the tourist and
cultural development of the region and organises creative workshops for
children and adults. It also organises events, courses and encounters
with the region’s artists and craftsmen. The non-profit organisation is
seeking to put a creative pathway in place in which art, nature and
sport can provide a link for the children and young people at the
Refugee Centre located in the village and the other people in the
village. The pathway to be set up will be open to all. It will be
located in the centre of the village and will link the Cultural Centre,
the school, the grounds of the Relais du Monde and the main road
through the village. The works created by the refugees at the three
workshops held every year will be showcased alongside the work of the
artists and craftsmen present at La Spirale.
Les Baobabs de Saint-Exupéry - Leernes
The Saint Exupéry beekeeping school.
The
association supports the primary and secondary schools in the
Saint-Exupéry special learning programme by organising out-of-school
activities, providing financial support to the teaching, cultural and
sporting activities, and by making buildings available. The beekeeping
school is an apiary teaching project at the foot of Aulne Abbey. The
apiary will feature a teaching room from which the pupils will be able
to watch a beehive being visited and where the honey can be extracted
and equipment stored; 3 beehives; a natural enclosure and a green area.
All this will be built by the pupils and teachers from form 3 of the
working, building maintenance and environment section, using age-old
techniques from the region (half-timbered walls, trellising, cobwork).
The operation of the apiary will be done by the students from form 2
alongside two beekeeping teachers. The apiary will be open to all
classes at the two schools, as well as to people from the outside,
thereby opening a window on life at Saint-Exupéry.
Maison de l'éveil et de la Santé - Pâturages
Nature and nutrition.
This
association helps disadvantaged children by organising a very wide
range of activities (homework schools, psychomotricity, musical
awareness, music therapy, sports, etc.). The project presented aims to
offer an educational project on farming awareness, sowing seed,
gardening, harvesting crops and preparing food, while stressing the
dietary properties of the products. The non-profit organisation also
aims to provide these children with the basics for good nutrition. In
partnership with the CPAS and the Bethléem home.
Psychiatrisch Centrum Caritas - Melle
Hippotherapy for young children as a therapeutic tool.
De
Kaap is a psychiatric hospital that focuses on admitting and treating
normally gifted children and adolescents aged 6 to 18 for short periods
when they are suffering from serious behavioural, emotional or
psychological disorders. In 1995 De Kaap introduced hippotherapy
(therapy using horses). At the hospital’s stables, young people work
with horses to enable them to be re-integrated when they are
“discharged” from the hospital. As this method appears to be
successful, it is now being expanded.
De Verbinding - Dendermonde
Construction of a materials bank for artistic and therapeutic workshops for children suffering from grief and bereavement.
De
Verbinding is an association greatly involved with children and young
people facing the experience of bereavement and loss: mourning,
disease, handicap, divorce. De Verbinding encourages the children to
express themselves and to “open up” via the artistic creations that
they produce at the children’s workshops. By providing materials
(canvases, paint, brushes, etc.) the experience of loss can be worked
through in the long term, at the child’s own pace. In addition to the
creative workshops, there are also discussion sessions with supervisors.
Vzw Kinderdienst - Brussels
Foster care offering support by taking care of children and guiding families.
The
non-profit organisation Kinderdienst is a service that provides foster
care to support families. The service organises and supervises foster
care in families for children aged between 0 and 12. During the foster
period, the whole family is given intensive support so that the
children can return to their own families as quickly as possible.
Kinderdienst tries to prevent situations from escalating by combining
short-term placements away from home and family guidance.
Vzw Pinocchio / Brandweer Sint-Niklaas - Brussels
A comic strip for making children and their parents aware of fire safety in the home.
The
non-profit organisation Pinocchio looks after the interests and
well-being of children and young people with burn injuries. The
organisation provides support and guidance to victims of burns and
promotes awareness. It aims to use a comic strip to make young people
and their parents aware of the dangers caused by a lack of fire safety
in the home and the best steps to take in order to reduce the risk of
burn injuries.
Tivo vzw - Antwerpen
Building a moped workshop as work experience for youngsters in part-time vocational training.
The
non-profit organisation Tivo promotes bridging projects for valuable
work experience. Each year, it provides work and supervision for 100
part-time students in vocational training. Through the moped workshop,
young people gain the necessary skills for the job market. This enables
them to gain valuable work experience whilst learning to develop the
right attitude to work.
Dagcentrum "De Oever" - Vremde
A website as an interactive information medium for young people at the "De Oever" day centre.
The
"De Oever" day centre provides remedial education and psychosocial
assistance to young people to enable them to have the best possible
relationship with their parents whilst growing up. "De Oever" wants to
use a website to provide information to the youngsters at the centre in
a more appropriate manner. Working in this way, the young people also
have more opportunity to give feedback and the assistance process can
be faster, if required. This enables the youngsters to be helped in the
way that is best for them.
Bednet - Leuven
Back to school via the Internet!
A
project for long-term sick children Bednet aims to develop a virtual
network that links long-term sick children to their own teachers and
classmates at school via the Internet. Remote learning helps these
children with long-term illnesses to pick up the threads of their
schooling and not to lose touch with their social groups. The aim is to
develop a structured virtual learning network for sick children aged
between 6 and 18 across the whole of Flanders.
Oikoten - Tildonk
Volunteers for remediation project for young under-age delinquents.
The
non-profit organisation Oikoten is a pioneer in remedial mediation: the
process by which young delinquents talk through the situation with
their parents and the victims. This method seeks to find a form of
repair or resolution of the problem. The delicate process is supervised
by a neutral mediator. Through this project, Oikoten seeks first and
foremost to put volunteers in place to act as the neutral person in the
victim-perpetrator mediation process.
Dienstencentrum Ter Engelen - Maaseik
Practising to live independently – project for girls with an intellectual handicap.
The
Ter Engelen Service Centre provides care for young people with
intellectual disabilities. Through this project, the centre aims to
offer young girls aged mainly between 16 and 18, the opportunity to
prepare for living independently under supervised conditions.
BOM vzw - project fietshaven - Antwerpen
Out
on the road with a bicycle and the necessary traffic insight – project
to improve the mobility of disadvantaged young people.
Fietshaven
is an initiative designed to improve the mobility of disadvantaged
young people. This project is designed to teach skills for cycling,
bicycles and being in traffic. It increases their freedom, mobility and
independence through the way they travel. Increased mobility also
improves the chances of these young people in the future.
Sering vzw - Antwerpen
A worldwide interactive theatre project via the Internet and multimedia.
Sering
is an organisation that puts together theatrical and artistic projects
with young people from highly vulnerable social groups. Working through
an interactive pilot project, Sering wants to set up worldwide
communication between children and young people to enable them to
produce an interactive theatre project via the Internet and multimedia.
This ambitious project extends a long way across national borders.
Pirlewiet vzw - Turnhout
A short holiday on a children’s farm for disadvantaged youngsters.
The
non-profit organisation Pirlewiet organises camps and holidays for
children growing up in poverty. As they often come from urban
environments, a healthy holiday in the country is very enriching and
rewarding for these children. The positive climate has a favourable
effect on the kids. These short holidays are also an outstanding
opportunity for young activity supervisors to gain experience before
going on to provide leadership at the major summer camps.
LINK (Laakdals Inclusie netwerk voor Kinderen) - Vorst Laakdal
“Snoezelen”: an exciting journey into yourself.
The
non-profit organisation LINK has set itself the goal of including
children with learning problems or mental handicaps in normal
education. However, these children require additional supervision. This
is provided at “snoezelen” sessions: "snoezelen" is a combination of
rummaging about and dozing. During this hour or so, pupils with various
difficulties (ADHD, dyslexia, etc.), are able to relax and rest in an
attractive environment. “Snoezelen” promotes the well-being of the
child and helps provide positive adjustment.
Speel-o-theek De Wip - Knokke-Heist
Let kids learn as they have fun!
At
the Speel-o-theek, De Wip focuses everything on learning in a playful
manner. This project supervises and motivates children with slight
mental handicaps in obtaining elementary school knowledge. A great deal
of educational play equipment is required for this project. Because
it’s easier to learn when you’re having fun!
Vzw Zonnebloem - Heule
A swing for young wheelchair patients.
The
non-profit organisation Zonnebloem is part of a Medical and Learning
Institute that provides specialised foster care for children and young
people with motor or metal handicaps. The garden is designed to be an
area for enjoyment and play. A wheelchair swing enables children with
motor handicaps to let their hair down. The feeling of movement, the
wind blowing through their hair and the new experience have a very
positive effect on these children.
Kinder- en Jongerenwerking 't Leebeekje - Gent
‘t Leebeekje runs on wheels!
‘t
Leebeekje is an organisation that provides a wide range of leisure
activities for disadvantaged and vulnerable young people in the
district of Nieuw Gent. The organisation has 12 or so sets of
rollerblades, bicycles and BMXs and wants to install a circuit where
the youngsters can rollerblade. Everyone is welcome at the circuit and
can let their hair down to their hearts’ content. A layer of asphalt...
and the wheels will be rolling again!
OOBC "Nieuwe Vaart" (Orthopedagogisch Observatie en Behandelingscentrum) - Gent
A phased plan against disruptive behaviour.
Children
and young people with behavioural and emotional problems often display
disruptive behaviour. The OOBC (Orthopedagogisch Observatie en
Behandelingscentrum) wants to introduce a “phased behaviour plan” to
the day treatment centre to teach the children what type of behaviour
is expected of them. What they can and cannot do. These children learn
step by step what type of behaviour is positive and negative. To show
these youngsters the right path to take, they work in a system where
positive behaviour is always rewarded.
Vrije technische Scholen - Sint-Niklaas
“Tailored learning” – vocational training for overweight and obese students.
Obese
and overweight schoolchildren often fall behind in their learning
because they are unable to keep up with the class during practical
lessons. By providing a physical training package and making dietary
advice part of the education of these young people, they can work
actively on their own health. A healthy mind and body go hand in hand!
Juna - Aalst
Communities with unaccompanied minors from abroad.
Juna
provides protection, shelter and supervision for unaccompanied young
people from other countries. In particular, very young children or
victims of abuse or child-trafficking are given personalised support
through community groups so that they quickly become independent. They
live in shared communities and separate studios, where they have some
privacy. After a period of 1 year, these children move on to living
independently or are reunited with their families.