Padel Tournament for refugees
23 Sopra Steria and Sopra Banking teams participated and gave their absolute best. The proceeds of this tournament went to Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen and Caritas Luxembourg, good causes that work with/for refugees.
Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen works to ensure that everyone can feel at home in Belgium.
Project “Startpunt”
This is a team of volunteers standing at the registration point:
- We give basic information about asylum procedure in different languages;
- We monitor in terms of the number of applications and the situation: this is how we stay best informed about what is going well and what is not going well.
Support Volunteers & campaigning
We support volunteers and their projects in Brussels and Flanders, by
- Creating a network;
- Bringing them together;
- Coaching them;
- Communicating about real stories with a positive tone to have an impact on social debate.
We influence policy
- We watch over the rights of people on the move;
- We are a discussion partner for governments, cabinets and political parties;
- We develop lobby work, for example around reception crises and Afghanistan;
Caritas Luxembourg provides psycho-social support to about 20 refugee homes.
The teams at the centres consist of social workers and educators, who are assisted by mobile professionals (psychologists, interpreters, etc.). Each person undergoes a social evaluation and is offered training opportunities, intercultural meetings, empowering activities or involvement in other projects, depending on their individual needs, interests and possibilities. In fact, their integration begins at the centre, before they have even obtained refugee status, and every effort is made to ensure that they acquire the knowledge that will allow them to become more independent and start integrating into Luxembourg society.
Some of the shelters are exclusively for people who have fled the war in Ukraine and are granted temporary protection.