Les Gazelles de Bruxelles

Action accessible to all including newly arrived migrants

PROJECT OWNER

Name of the project owner: Les Gazelles de Bruxelles
Status of the project owner:  National NGO
Area of work of the project owner: Sport / Migration / Social integration / Professional integration / Intercultural exchange / Health / Gender equality
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PROJECT

 Belgium
Geographic scope of project: Regional
Project objective: Promote social diversity / Develop language skills / Educate and transmit values through sport / Practice a physical activity for physical/mental health / Develop intercultural relations and/or intercultural competency / Promote access to volunteering in sport
Type of sport or physical activity carried out: Jogging
Partnership / supports: Grants
Project duration: 4 years
Project status: Underway
Supervising staff: Professionals
Summary of the project:   Our mission: strengthening adults from disadvantaged groups through jogging and realising opportunities to meet. Our target group: our target group includes anyone who has no opportunity or has difficulty accessing sport: people in poverty, recent immigrants, undocumented migrants. Les Gazelles seeks a social and cultural mix in which meetings and exchanges are created through sport. In that way we build bridges between the disadvantaged and the privileged groups while jogging. Our values: sportive, progressive, solidarity, open, MIX*

Summary of the project in original language:                    

Onze missie

Via joggen volwassenen uit kansengroepen versterken

en ontmoeting tot stand brengen.

Onze doelgroep

Iedereen die geen of moeilijk toegang heeft tot sport behoort tot onze doelgroep: mensen in armoede, nieuwkomers, mensen zonder papieren,…. Les Gazelles beoogt een sociale en culturele mix waarbij er door sport ontmoeting en uitwisseling ontstaat. Op die manier bouwen we tijdens het joggen bruggen tussen kansarmen en kansrijken.

Onze waarden

Sportief

Vooruit

Solidair

Open

MIX

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TARGET GROUP

Country of origin: No preference
Types of migration: Refugee / Asylum seeker / Economic migrant / Environmental migrant / Migrant in transit
Target beneficiary: Families / Teenager-Young people / Elderly
Target age group:  21-30 / 31-60 / 60 +