Funded projects by year
Kitchen Renovation in downtown Brussels - 4000,00€
Renovassistance renovates old buildings to provide disadvantaged families with decent, healthy housing at low cost. GEH is supporting a project in the heart of Brussels between Place St Géry and Place Ste Catherine. The ground floor is a meeting space where, every afternoon, volunteers welcome deprived local people living on their own. The four upper floors will be renovated and divided into two 2-bedroom apartments and a duplex with 4 bedrooms. They will house three very poor families (income below 80% of the threshold to qualify for social housing). This project has been financed thanks to the generous donation of Solidarity Subcommittee Stage Fall 2010.
Fight the digital fracture In cooperation with FOYER DES JEUNES DES MAROLLES (Belgium) - 3520,00€
Set up in 1961, the FJM has almost 200 more or less regular visitors – young people aged from 6 and 26, mainly from Maghreb or central Africa.
The FJM's goal is to support these young people in their personal and social development, through a welcome and listening programme, and projects (also intended to prevent youth offending).
The digital fracture project is for secondary-school children (12-16) attending the after-school homework club run the FJM since October 2010. Increasingly, the children need access to IT tools for their schoolwork. In addition, high-quality computers and other equipment are needed to run graphics and audio-visual software for projects that young people are working on with assistance from FJM staff. This project has been financed in cooperation with Schuman Trophy.
Renovation of three rooms in an emergency home for unprivileged women - 4700,00€
The NGO L’ILOT asbl requested GEH contribute towards the renovation of three family rooms in an emergency home for unprivileged women based in Saint-Gilles.
The home provides essential initial help to the women allowing them to build up their strength, develop a life plan and obtain independence.
GEH’s has contributed €4,700 towards the purchase of furniture for the rooms. The renovation of the rooms themselves has been funded through contributions from other partners.
Medical equipment for the Kismaros Cistercian medical clinic - 2650,00€
The clinic helps a great many people: 660 new patients a year, 5,000 consultations (adults and children), and electrotherapy treatments for 6,800 people.
Treatment costs are not refunded by the state, and the clinic receives no official subsidies. It needs donations to develop and keep on providing orthopaedic services in a region with no other provision. The clinic specifically sets out to give underprivileged people the healthcare they need (for back problems, joint pain) so they can continue working.
Two electrotherapy equipments are provided.
Construction of an access ramp in a refuge for homeless individuals that are disabled or ill (Poland) - 5000,00€
This project involves the construction of an access ramp in a homeless refuge located in a neighbourhood in Warsaw. The ramp will help homeless individuals that are disabled or ill to access the refuge without which they would be left to live on the streets. The cost of this work amounts to €15,000 of which GEH has contributed €5,000. The project should be completed by late 2011/early 2012.
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