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Compagnons Bâtisseurs
Updated: 21/08/2018
Facilitator
The Association des Compagnons Bâtisseurs, aka CBB, is a non-profit, non-political organization recognized and financially supported as Youth Organization by the Brussels-Wallonia Federation since 1978. It is member of the ALLIANCE of European Voluntary Service Organizations since 1997. In Belgium, CBB is member of the federation of the pluralist and independent youth organizations.
- As Youth Organisation, CBB is managed by young volunteers. 7 Board members out of 9 and 81% of the members of the general assembly are bellow 35 years old.
All the actions of the organization are based on the principles of non-formal education. Our projects aim to support the development of active citizens, able of sense of responsibility, criticism and solidarity. They offer a space for interaction and expression of people from diverse origins and abilities, with the objectives to encourage their awareness on societal challenges (from local to global level), to raise new links of solidarity between them and between their communities, and to support their full participation in the society.
In that sense, any project or activity in CBB encourages:
– The empowerment of free, autonomous and responsible individuals.
– The meetings beyond the differences.
– The practices of active citizenship and the promotion of volunteering.
– The informal and non-formal learning processes
- CBB mainly develops its action with 5 permanent programs of activities:
- The international workcamps (short term volunteering projects in international group)
- The week-end workcamps (volunteering projects for local groups during the week-end)
- The mid and long term volunteer projects, which include European Voluntary Services.
- The leisure time activities (of one evening, one day, one week-end, one week…) for mixed groups of volunteers and people in situation of disability which are oriented on the meeting and collective action of these people with different abilities.
- The leaders trainings (for volunteer projects and also for kids camps)
Our activities are developed thanks to a community of volunteers and a team of 12 employees.
Most of our public is aged between 16 and 25 years, even if there is not upper age limit to integrate our groups of volunteers. - Our public is diverse. More than 30 nationalities are yearly represented in our projects. The volunteers also get involved in our organization with very different backgrounds and level of abilities. At this purpose, we implement strategies to facilitate the participation of people from disadvantaged economic and social background as well as of people facing educational difficulties or in situation of disability.
