Repair-ing for the future with SB youth and volunteers
Water kettles, portable heaters and lamps. All simple electrical devices that you can find in almost every home in Belgium.
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Refugees
Francesca’s Brussels bucket list: Volunteer with SB Espoir
There are over 35 dedicated volunteers who join SB Espoir on the weekends for the different activities they organize. Francesca
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World-famous soprano and UNHCR’s ambassador Barbara Hendricks visited VUB’s asylum-seeking students
Famous American soprano Barbara Hendricks, ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, visited refugee students at the Vrije
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Help us support the 70,000 Syrian refugees in danger from snow storms, flooding and freezing in Lebanon
Against the backdrop of the snowcapped Anti-Lebanon mountains and pillowy white storm clouds in the sky, UNHCR tents are covered
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Sharing New Year Resolutions and other European traditions with refugee youth
With the new year at SB OverSeas, we’ve started once again our weekend activities with refugee youth at accommodation centres
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The resilience of a Syrian refugee child bride
To start off the new year, we share with you this week the next comic in SB OverSeas’ ‘Just Married’ series.
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Civil society and migrants working hand-in-hand for hope
For nearly a year now, I’ve immersed myself in one subject: migration. Academically, I’m working on my masters in the
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Belgian humanitarian aid focused on helping in the refugees’ own region
In 2018, Belgium earmarked 170 million euros for humanitarian aid. This amount went mainly to helping refugees and people in
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Today is International Migrants’ Day but who is a migrant?
In Brussels, your neighbor is probably a migrant —someone who has left where they were born and has resettled elsewhere—as
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Student or Wife? Refugee girls fight for education in Lebanon
“More than anything, she wanted to return to school, but instead she was expected to get married, to take care
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