{"id":17719,"date":"2019-12-18T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sboverseas.org\/?p=17719"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:40:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:40:28","slug":"the-story-of-sb-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sboverseas.org\/nl\/the-story-of-sb-in-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of SB in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late summer of 2015, refugees started to come to Belgium where they arrived to Park Maximilian, a large public park became the infamous temporary home for thousands of people. Situated opposite the Belgian immigration office, within weeks after the first arrival of refugee, the park became a small tent-city set up by upwards of 3,000 refugees. Citizens started to come to the park to support to bring food and clothes and then organisations started to mobilise and had a tent beside the tent of the refugees. We had the first school there, it was we had it with collaboration with M\u00e9decines du Monde; we did psychological support and education support to those refugees\u2014volunteers worked on the ground to provide some activities to young people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chairwoman of SB OverSeas, Louma Albik, was on the ground speaking with young people, children and women directly. As we were able to mobilise a group that were Arabic speakers, these interactions were more familiar for the refugees who had just arrived. Win this capacity, we worked side by side with M\u00e9decins du Monde\u2014our involvement was vital because the mentality of the refugee that arrived, it was very different from the European mentality, and with our expertise in Lebanon we were able to help mediate the cultural differences. Some of the men, women and children living in the park knew us from Lebanon or from Turkey and just by knowing their culture and mentality better than other local or European organisation we were able to better facilitate their access to psychological support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe next couple of weeks, the park was completely full of tents and Caritas began\nhosting families in churches or hospitals and started to provide more\naccommodation support and meals. Citizens in solidarity with the people\nsleeping in the park began the movement for social support, legal advice, and\nthe innovative hosting project that continues to this day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\nof the people in the tents in the park were families from Syria or Iraq,\nfleeing from the regime. Included in this group were women that were arrested,\nsexually abused and tortured by the Syrian and Iraqi regimes. Louma recalls one\nspecific instance where a woman who was tortured, was placed in a reception\ncentre in the same room with the person who had tortured her; SB at the time\nwas collaborating with this centre to do such mediation, and Louma recalls that\nunfortunately due to a lack of information about the situation in her home\ncountry \u201cthey didn\u2019t understand why she doesn\u2019t want to sleep, and we explained\nthat he was the one with the regime that was torturing her.\u201d This instance was\nnot a one-off occasion. There were many times where in a rush to make placements\nwere made and these kinds of situations were created\u2014making our work as SB\nvital to provide context and cultural mediation in order to protect these\npeople in a precarious position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with this\nunderstanding and expertise that we at SB OverSeas in Belgium has continued our\nwork. In 2017 we began our citizen\u2019s project working with young people living\nin two centres, first in Neder-Over-Heembeek, a FEDASIL centre of observation\nand orientation and in Uccle, a Red Cross longer-term centre. Since then we\nhave done activities on the weekends with the hundreds of young refugees that\nlive in the city. At the end of 2018, we expanded to do more activities at a second\nFEDASIL centre in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre and in 2019 began reaching young girls\nand women with the \u201cSon Choix, Son Avenir\u201d project at the all-female Red Cross\ncentre in Jette. This citizen this project offers a variety of unique\nworkshops, such as visiting cultural exhibits around the city, learning about chocolate-making\n, bicycle repairing and a photography workshop given by a professional\nphotographer on the surroundings of the city. Throughout these experiences in\nthe hosting community, young people learn not only about their new home, but\nthey also have the opportunity to discover their interests and passions\u2014all &nbsp;of which is an essential part of their own self-development.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/sboverseas.org\/nl\/category\/belgium\/\">our projects and work in Brussels, read more<\/a> of our reports, blogs and articles. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late summer of 2015, refugees started to come to Belgium where they arrived to Park Maximilian, a large public park became the infamous temporary home for thousands of people. 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