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Spring Clean Focus Day – 19 May 2012
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Brussels, May 2012

Every year in May, the Serve the City team hit the streets of Brussels with spring-cleaning in mind. This volunteer day supports key non-profits in our community by sprucing up their environments, ushering out the winter and in the summer activities and projects that lay ahead.

For those who don’t mind getting messy doing practical things, this is the volunteer event for you. Gardening, painting, tidying up, moving stuff, cleaning or fixing are the order of the day. Bring gloves and wear clothing that will be ok getting covered in some dirt!

A number of groups will also help the city put on a clean face by tidying up a number of public spaces. Every part of our community benefits from a helping hand from time to time; a city and its public spaces are no exception.

There are also projects that are a little less messy, such as playing games and doing arts and crafts with groups of children, helping some of the women in the shelters get a make-over, and spending time with our homeless communities.

The Serve the City idea began in 2005 when Carlton Deal started a revolution to have people serve others – those often overlooked by society. Today, Serve the City operates in close to 80 locations all over the world, with Brussels, Antwerp and Leuven teams right here in Belgium.

The team at Serve the City is truly inspirational. They describe themselves as “a movement of volunteers serving cities in practical ways and inspiring people to be givers in this world. Serve the City believes that many people doing small things together does make a big difference in our world.”

They are making quite an impact on our cities, taking strides to solve many practical problems that other more traditional organizations cannot deal with. Key areas of focus are: the homeless, asylum-seekers, disabled, elderly, children in need and victims of abuse.

For more information, please do contact:
chalks@servethecity.be
0478.48.20.23

About STC:
Serve the City began in Brussels in 2005, and is now active in 80 cities around the world. Serve the City organizes serving events and provides ongoing serving opportunities. Volunteers sign up to serve in projects that fit their interests and abilities.

Serve the City ASBL
Place Van Meyel 15a,
1040 Brussels
Belgium

Phone: +32.2.734.35.02
Email: chalks@servethecity.be

http://servethecity.net/

Victims of Abuse Focus Day – 21 April 2012

Brussels, March 2012

Once again, a large team of volunteers from Serve the City plan to visit various
communities in Brussels. On 21 April, around 80 people will deliver practical
projects to the non-profit community supporting Victims of Abuse.

The idea began in 2005 when Carlton Deal started a revolution to have people serve others – those often overlooked by society. Today, Serve the City operates in close to 80 locations all over the world, with Brussels, Antwerp and Leuven teams right here in Belgium.

The team at Serve the City is truly inspirational. They describe themselves as “a
movement of volunteers serving cities in practical ways and inspiring people to
be givers in this world. Serve the City believes that many people doing small
things together does make a big difference in our world.”

They do seem to be making quite an impact in our cities, taking strides to solve
many practical problems that other more traditional organizations cannot deal
with. Key areas of focus are: Homeless, asylum seekers, disabled, elderly,
children in need and victims of abuse.

For more information, please do contact:
chalks.corriette@me.com
0478.482023

About us:
Serve the City began in Brussels in 2005, and is now active in 80 cities around the world. Serve the City organizes serving events and provides ongoing serving opportunities. Volunteers sign up to serve in projects that fit their interests and abilities.

Serve the City ASBL
Place Van Meyel 15a,
1040 Brussels
Belgium

Phone: +32.2.734.35.02
Email: info@servethecity.be

http://servethecity.net/

The Irish pub, De Valera’s, in the trendy Flagey area of Brussels was the setting for Serve the City pub quiz on Thursday 15 March. Quizmaster Richard Cross delivered a range of questions to a lively 70 participants making up 16 teams. Congratulations to the top three teams: Jack Tipper, Under 40 Interpreters and No Brainers. The teams were given prizes donated by De Valera’s and the event raised 410 euro. People to People International will round this up to 500 euro, bringing the total raised for the Malawi Well project to 800 euro including the 300 euro made from the disco recently held at Roosters.

We take fresh water for granted in our advanced economy and yet over a billion people continue to fight for this basic need. The team from Serve the City aims to give 1,000 euro to a community in the suburbs of Malawi for a shallow well, which will save them going 4-5 km to find water.

Local chiefs reported that having access to clean water in their communities enables the teenage girls to go to school, cuts down cases of cholera deaths (in several places where Serve the City has already assisted it has now been totally eradicated), and cuts the levels of malaria, diarrhea, dysentery and other water-based diseases.

Having a healthy community means fields can be tended properly and the crop yield increases, enabling some to even sell produce. All in all the first step out of the poverty cycle! The community has been visited as part of a number of other well projects that have taken place in the past.

For more information, please do contact:

chalks.corriette@me.com

0478 48 20 23

About the 2 organizations:

Serve the City began in Brussels in 2005, and is now active in 80 cities around the world. Serve the City organizes serving events and provides ongoing serving opportunities. Volunteers sign up to serve in projects that fit their interests and abilities. http://www.servethecity.be/brussels/

People to People International (PTPI) enhances understanding and trans-national friendship through educational, cultural and humanitarian activities. There has been a PTPI presence in Belgium since 1970 and we have chapters in 130 countries. http://www.ptpi.be/