Background

The BFN service responds to the specificity and raison d'être of our RSCJ charism which harbours "a preferential option" for the growth of young people and encountering the poor people.

Objectif

To encourage the human and spiritual growth of young people (through their participation in a volunteering experience)

Activities

Preparation for departure, volunteers go through:

  • Spiritual preparation
  • Discernment
  • Intercultural preparation on the country they are aiming to
  • Exercises to learn to release self-control
  • Participation in local activities with poor and people with special needs

 During volunteer experience

  • Full participation in a project to help local poor people.
  • Share their skills.
  • Receive spiritual and human accompaniment with local RSCJ
  • The volunteer becomes a link between the local province and the BFN volunteer service: articles in newsletter, personal reports.

At return

  • The volunteer gives witness of their experiences in our schools and in the province communities.
  • The volunteer participates in a return accompaniment run by the volunteer service.

Results

The young people

  • are transformed,
  • are enriched with the knowledge of a new country, its culture and its reality,
  • integrate their volunteer experience in their routine,
  • opened their heart to differences and the poor,
  • engaged in justice and poverty

BFN volunteers have had volunteer service in MEX province (The Cuidado el Tejido de la Vida León Projects: Construyendo comunidad. Hacia la paz por caminos de participación, convivencia y ciudadanía and Iyolosiwa; and Jornadas Comunitarias en Centros Educativos Oblatos, Guadalajara, summer time 2015 and 2017).

 

People being served

People being served : Agents of transformation (Educators)

Age group : Adults 26-60, Young people 18-25

Number of participants : mai-50

Schedule

Project status : Ongoing

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Overview

Society presence : Belgium-France-Netherlands

Focus of the project : People

JPIC Imperative : Transforming and Being Transformed

UN Sustainable Development Goals : 17 Partnerships for the Goals