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2018
ANNUAL REPORT
FOREWORD
Purpose or meaning exists when people have legitimate goalsand when they feel personally
empowered to have impact regarding those goals. Goals they consider righteous,
important and valuable. Goals that fit within their set of values and beliefs.
Finding purpose comes with having a clear sense of self: the way a person thinks about
and views his or her traits, beliefs and purpose in the world. Being conscious about who
we are, what values we treasure and what we stand for is key.
In today’s rapidly changing and challenging society with tremendous amounts of opportunities
and threats, we should strive for that solid foundation of sense of self within our
teams. It brings stability and certainty in an uncertain context. It generates engagement
and develops an inner climate that nourishes entrepreneurship and innovation.
I am very grateful to work with colleagues who embody these concepts. Scaling our
impact together is a continuous balancing act in which self-reflection and discussion are
important ingredients. I want to take this opportunity to express my most sincere gratitude
to my colleagues. They are the ones that make it happen, being their authentic
selves, pushing projects, challenging strategies and creating opportunities.
I’m blessed to work with these fantastic people and hope we can continue our journey to
further explore new strategies to build a sustainable future for people, organisations and
society.
While flicking through our annual report, I hope you’ll enjoy some of the great stuff our
team realised together with many other important stakeholders.
Best regards,
Arnoud Raskin
For any corrigenda found subsequent to printing, please visit our website at www.mobileschool.org/annualreport
© StreetwiZe • Mobile School June 2019
FRONT COVER: Children on the Kibarani dumpsite in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa exploring educational games during a mobile school intervention with local partner Glad’s House.
BACK COVER: Street workers of local partner Glad’s House leaving the Kibarani dumpsite in Mombasa after a creative intervention with the mobile school.
© Sander Degeling (July 2016)
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CONTENTS
1 ABOUT US
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2 REALISATIONS
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3 STREETWIZE CLIENTS 2018
154
4 MOBILE SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS 2018 156
5 THANK YOU
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6 FINANCIAL KEY FIGURES
161
7 LET’S GET SOCIAL
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Mobile School partner Salvati Copiii, Iasi, Romania
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ABOUT US
Mission and values Mobile School Group
mobile school group undertakes actions, starting from the strengths of street-connected children, to improve the
sustainable development of individuals, organisations and society.
Mobile School NPO is a Belgian organisation
dedicated to empowering autonomous organisations
working with street-connected children
throughout the world. We develop mobile school
carts and educational materials and train local
street workers to increase their efficiency and impact.
The main objective of the Mobile School methodology
is to discover and unlock the talents of
street-connected children so they can regain a positive
self-image and can start to make conscious
decisions about their own future. Presently there
are 54 mobile schools in 28 countries, spread
across four continents: Latin America, Asia, Africa
and Europe.
StreetwiZe is a talent development company. Inspired
by the many extraordinary youngsters Mobile
School works with, StreetwiZe has developed its
impact-driven approach to talent and leadership
growth. We have decoded street savviness to answer
learning demands in a business context. With an
authentic story and our unique approach, we inspire
people to look differently at themselves and the
world. We invite them to reimagine their personal
role in their organisation and their chances and opportunities
to make a difference. StreetwiZe invests
100% of its profit in Mobile School, co-creates the
educational materials and relentlessly supports
Mobile School to increase its social impact.
StreetSmart is the new TECH4GOOD start-up of
the social enterprise StreetwiZe • Mobile School.
StreetSmart Impact, a mobile application designed
to facilitate case management, reporting and
impact measurement, helps outreach and youth
work organisations to raise the efficiency and the
impact of their work.
The use of the app will enable these organisations
to increase the quality of their data reporting.
Consequently it will be easier to make their voices
heard and to convince society to gear up investments
in youth.
ACTIONS
In all our initiatives we want to at least inspire people,
but strive to activate and even engage people. We
work on the development of competences as a
means and opportunity to increase sustainable development.
Authenticity
Cooperative
Competition
STRENGTHS OF STREET-CONNECTED CHILDREN
We believe in the potential of each child and strive
to develop their strengths and talents through social
entrepreneurship.
VALUES
positive
focus
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
In everything we do, we facilitate the (self)-discovery
and strengthening of identity,
aspirations and talents, and make a difference
based on common values
TRUST
PASSION
WWW.MOBILESCHOOL.ORG WWW.STREETWIZE.BE WWW.STREETSMARTTECH.EU
Hybrid Organisation
“BE AND ACT ACCORDING TO
YOUR OWN VALUES AND THE
VALUES OF THE ORGANISATION”
“FIND BALANCE IN ALL SITUA-
TIONS BETWEEN COOPERATION
AND COMPETITION TO MAKE
THE MISSION OF THE
ORGANISATION COME TRUE”
“BE CONVINCED YOU CAN FIND
AND ADDRESS
OPPORTUNITIES”
“TAKE, GIVE AND RESPECT
RESPONSIBILITIES IN AN
HONEST WAY”
“COMMIT YOURSELF
WHOLEHEARTEDLY.”
StreetwiZe invests 100% of its profits in Mobile School, co-creates educational materials used on the streets,
and relentlessly focuses on creating social impact.
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REALISATIONS
2018 was a busy year! In this annual report, we are happy to highlight some of our realisations.
Our business venture StreetwiZe sold services to 122 clients and made them all StreetwiZe companies.
Our social venture Mobile School realised 24 field visits in 12 countries with over 100 training days and 38 days of street coaching impacting 190 street educators.
Our volunteers were active, as usual, organising two big campaigns this year: the International Day for Street Children and #DuwMee.
Finally, 2018 was also the year of the start-up of our Tech4Good venture, StreetSmart.
Want to know more? Check out a selection of our projects in 2018 and see what we’ve been up to last year!
LEGEND
StreetwiZe realisations
Mobile School realisations
Volunteers & Campaigns realisations
StreetSmart realisations
StreetwiZe trainer Bart in action 7
Moore Stephens • Flex ‘Up 12
AG Insurance • Sales teams two days 16
Secondary School Stella Maris • New mission 18
Design technical manual of mobile school 22
Improved coaching strategy for partners 26
Vlerick • An established partnership 30
A glimpse of our keynote season 34
Workshopping for 122 different clients 38
Barco & Exellys • Learning through experience 42
Redesign mathematical educational offer 46
MS Playground • Launch prototype
Follow-up Bolivia • COMPA La Paz 54
Cevora • A StreetwiZe leadership training 58
New school Kenya • Child Rescue 62
Follow-up Greece • PRAKSIS Patras 66
Follow-up Kenya • Glad’s House 68
Official Opening new SWZ • MS office
AG Insurance • Trainee Programme 76
New school Poland • GTW Gliwice 80
Follow-up Germany • Jugendamt Düsseldorf 84
StreetSmart • Transnational meeting Poland
Team expedition 2018 • Back to the roots
Follow-up Greece • Ladies Union of Drama 98
Orange • Hackathon & creativity boosts 102
Volunteer fun activity • Irrland 104
StreetSmart • Multiplier event 108
New school Bolivia • Abriendo Puertas 112
New school Malawi • Chisomo Children’s Club 116
Train-the-trainer seminar Mobile School 120
City of Bilzen • Team Development Programme 124
MS Playground • Development of DIY-games 130
Exploration Pakistan • Lettuce Bee Kids 134
Exploration Georgia • Caritas Georgia 138
Exploration Poland • Pomocna Dłon 142
Follow-Up India • EkTara 146
Online Content Sharing Platform • Start-up 150
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Flexpoint • An innovative work organisation
Research on case management in youth work
StreetSmart • Alpha test version
Davidsfonds • Traditions and rejuvenation
Customer centricity • New wrap-up materials
Educational materials in two new languages
Professionalising the StreetwiZe back-office
UGent PostDocs • Creativity, Agility & Pitching
StreetSmart • Transnational meeting Greece
Mobile School Café
Design repair manual of mobile school
Follow-up Bolivia • IPTK-Cerpi
Exploration Bolivia • Abriendo Puertas
Bolivian Mobile School Exchange
VLAJO • SOHO! day
Follow-up Poland • Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla
International Day for Street Children
Exploration Togo • AGOPODE
Expedition board and investors
Cegeka • Ownership in practice
Exploration Tanzania • Tamasha Vijana
Exploration Tanzania • Mwema Street Children
Cevora • An incompany partnership
A proud B Corp since 2016 • Yearly summit
Argenta • Be StreetwiZe!
Follow-up Peru • Diamanta & Los Cachorros
My Family • Triple Up!
StreetSmart • Beta test version
Fedasil • Working on group dynamics
Elia Group • High performing young potentials
Rabobank • Growing a better story together
Zorgbedrijf Antwerpen • Building connection
Exploration Kenya • The Joy Divine
New school Tanzania • Mwema Street Children
Exploration India • The Child Trust
#DUWMEE Music For Life campaign
JANUARY
FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
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Flexpoint • an innovative work organisation
01/09/2017 • 31/05/2018
Bart Vanbellinghen
Hans Lamberts
Flexpoint
Leadership & Employees
Hasselt / Belgium
As a fast-growing recruiting agency, Flexpoint
faced the challenge to keep alive its specific
spirit of a small and dynamic organisation,
without becoming a hurdle for growth. In order
to do so, they chose the concept of “Innovative
Work Organisation” as a theoretical framework
to start from.
StreetwiZe’ task was to bring this concept to live
within the organisation, taking into account the
specific context and challenges Flexpoint was
faced with. In order to translate the theoretical
concept into the Flexpoint-reality, we kicked
off with an alignment session with the management
team (8 people). During two days we
discussed what the concept implied for the
organisation, for them as a management team,
and for their employees. We focused both on
what was not the problem when it came to
being an innovative work organisation, and
on the main challenges in order to become
one. This alignment session led to some
concrete ambitions (related to culture, mindset
and behaviour) on an organisational level, for
management and for employees.
look at Flexpoint’s ambitions with a StreetwiZe
mindset. Between workshops, separate teams
were triggered to adapt the content to their own
reality with some reflection questions, related to
the workshop they had just finished.
In addition, we organised a second two-day
offsite with the management team. During
these two days, we focused on the development
of more common leadership capabilities
such as communication, situational leadership
and feedback.
IMPACT
Align management on the meaning of a theoretical concept
Translate the concept into tangible ambitions
Create an open mindset among employees
Translate ambitions into tangible behaviour
In the second phase, these ambitions became
Support management to reflect on and take up their new role
the common thread throughout the workshops
we had with all the employees. Each employee
was invited to workshops on the 4 different
10 StreetSkills, in which we supported people to
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Moore Stephens • flex ‘up
01/09/2017 • 31/12/2018
Bart Vanbellinghen
Moore Stephens
Flanders / Belgium
Flex ‘Up is a strategic initiative at Moore
Stephens Belgium, which structurally implements
‘flexwork’ (activity based working, independent
of the geographical place) throughout
the organisation. The goal is to add value
for several stakeholders: employees, clients,
the organisation and society.
Flex ‘up is split up in three aspects: Team ‘Up
(behavioural component of working and collaborating
in the new situation), Move ‘Up
(adjustment of working environment and/or
move to new buildings) and Tech ‘Up (implementation
of supporting IT Tools).
After a first training programme with StreetwiZe,
Moore Stephens consciously picked
StreetwiZe again as a partner, to guide managers
and teams in this change. This way, the
street skills and -techniques could be applied
in the context of a ‘real life’ change, giving the
learning experience an extra dimension.
Executives were guided in forming a closer
and aligned team to both lead the change,
and communicate on it. During the kick-off
sessions, employees were informed and
directly involved in the project, including
identification and ownership on specific
actions.
During team sessions (Let’s get things done!)
they made operational arrangements, both individually
and as a team, in which client service is
key.
In the last phase, and after finalising the programme,
we organised a closure with an evaluation
focusing on team dynamics (Let’s make
things fun!).
To date, the two highest impact projects have
been finalised, because next to Flexworking,
these teams actually moved to new locations,
designed based on the principles of activity
based working, independent of the geographical
place. The programme aimed at strongly
involving the teams in the project and, besides
the implementation of the change itself, let the
teams grow (content wise: finetune processes,
share best practices, be one team and socially:
personal connection, social space,…).
The projects ‘Denderend’ (region Dender) and
‘Waaszinnig’ (region Waasland) have been successfully
finalised. Other programmes have started
up throughout the organisation.
IMPACT
Alignment of managers on a crystal clear goal
Co-creation with and involvement of employees
Explicit team arrangements and feedback culture
Successful change (move+ flexwork + one team)
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Research on case management in youth work
01/09/2017 • 10/05/2018
Julie Bernaerd (intern)
Lies De Vocht
Rob Sweldens
Wim Depickere
Erasmus+ KA2
Leuven / Belgium
Mobile School NPO is participating in an Erasmus+
Programme. This programme includes 3
intellectual outputs. The first one is a research
report regarding case management in youth
work. The report should help youth workers to
evaluate and improve their own activities and
their own case management. All the partners
from this programme were involved. CME,
ARSIS and PRAKSIS helped with some research,
but mostly with spreading questionnaires
and with translations. Mobile
School NPO was in charge of creating
the report. We had an intern (Master Degree
Educational Sciences) who supported
us in this process.
The five main research questions in the report
were the following:
1. How is case management perceived in
street – and youth work?
2. Which (mobile) case management tools
already exist worldwide?
3. Which indicators are useful in assessing
impact in non-formal youth work activities?
4. How can the indicators ‘non-formal education’
and ‘personal development be included
in the measurement?
5. How can the data of children and youngsters
be protected?
To investigate these questions, we chose to work
with a questionnaire and literature research. The
questionnaire was answered by 121 respondents
from in- and outside our own network.
By combining the results of the questionnaire
with literature review, we were able to formulate
recommendations on case management within
youth and street work.
Youth and street workers clearly understand
the importance and the need for effective case
management. The need for a tool that can support
them in their job is apparent. This tool is preferably
a mobile application. We will have to make
sure that the application is user-friendly. It must
be possible to enter data quickly and efficiently.
Next to the current indicators youth – and street
workers keep track of, educational indicators
are also important to them. Through our research,
we defined a theoretical frame of four concepts
linked to self-esteem and personal development,
which are easy to measure through observation
and conversation: goal tracking, defining
talents, social mapping and mood and
behaviour. Finally, the role of privacy and data
protection is really big. The GDPR regulation
was taken as the standard to follow, as this is the
strictest regulation yet on data protection.
IMPACT
121 respondents worldwide
108 pages research report on case management in youth work
Simple theoretical model for self-esteem measurement
GDPR guidelines for youth- and street work
Visualisation of the importance of case management in youth work
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AG Insurance • sales teams two days
01/09/2017 • 31/05/2018
Bart Vanbellinghen
Eric Vanbiervliet
AG Insurance
Houffalize / Belgium
To assure the commercial growth of the company
in times of change and disruption, AG
Insurance asked us to develop a programme
for the sales teams of the Life and Non-Life
branch.
Aspects like rapid digitalisation and continuous
evolution of client needs generate important
challenges for these teams.
StreetwiZe developed a two-day residential
programme, built on 3 pillars:
1. Reflection: As a team, think about importants
market shifts and their impact within
organisation and team.
2. Action: Work on an action-focused attitude
and on ownership, to be able to face current
and future changes and challenges.
3. Teambuilding: An additional opportunity
of a residential programme in the
Ardennes for employees who are often on
the road, was being able to connect with
colleagues.
In the evening, the participants prepared their
own dinner. Surprisingly connecting and delicious!
During the second day, we looked at the functioning
of the team from the perspective of Cooperative
Competition. We searched for opportunities
in collaboration between individuals who, by the
nature of their jobs, are more often stand-alone
than team-oriented. We also defined some important
themes and action points to perpetuate
the success of the teams.
IMPACT
Reflection on challenges/opportunities on different levels
Reflection: How to stay relevant in a given context?
Stimulate self-leadership: What can I do?
To map organisational challenges and opportunities,
we mainly worked on Positive
Common goals for stronger teams
Focus during the first day. Taking it from there,
Stimulate connection
we discussed the type of self-leadership we
strongly believe in at StreetwiZe, based on
inspirational ‘outperformers’ in the streets:
what exactly can I do?
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secondary school Stella Maris • new mission
01/09/2017 • 30/06/2018
Arnoud Raskin
Tessa Goossens
Hans Lamberts
Saskia Dieleman
Stella Maris
Merksem / Belgium
Stella Maris & Sint-Elisabeth are two schools
located in Antwerp, that offer TSO and BSO
degrees. They set the ambition to improve
the relationship between staff (teachers and
support) on the one hand, and students and
their context on the other. The student population
is very diverse, the distance between
the living environment of staff and students
seems to be growing which leads to misunderstandings
in class rooms and tension in the
relations. Stella Maris aims to improve the mutual
relationship, wants to re-become a school
both teachers and students love to be part of
and contacted us for support. In total, Stella
Maris and StreetwiZe will collaborate for three
years on the above mentioned topics. The first
year - during which we worked on alignment
amongst the staff - just finished.
We kicked off in October, with a keynote from
Arnoud and a reflection with the complete
staff on the current situation in the school. We
asked them how they perceive the situation
on two levels: what they actually like about
the school today, and the main challenges
they see. On top, we asked them what they
propose to improve the situation. One of the
outcomes of this first high-level reflection was
that there is a lot of goodwill within the staff
team, but the ideas on how to improve the
situation, were extremely diverse. Since we
believe that impact comes from aligned action, we
proposed to set up a staff-ambassador team
(25p) that would reflect on that aligned vision
spread over three different days: what kind of
school do we want to be, what expectation does
this imply towards personnel, towards students
and towards the management of the school,
what actions can we undertake in order to start
growing towards those goals and how can we
communicate (storytelling and pitching) this
new vision towards the different stakeholders
within the school. Thanks to this approach, year
1 ended with a clear vision on the school-to-be,
a high level set-up on how to start working on
this and a means to communicate the new vision
towards staff and students.
In year 2 and 3, we will work on the opportunity
to bring this new vision alive together with staff
and students.
IMPACT
Participants: Keynote 80p, Reflection 80p, Alignment: 3 x 25p
Sharpened vision on the school-to-be
Clear expectations on what this means towards target groups
Ideas on how these expecations could be met
Support on how this new vision can be communicated
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StreetSmart • alpha test version
01/09/2017 • 30/09/2018
Wim Depickere
Lies De Vocht
Arnoud Raskin
Rob Sweldens
Hans Dreesen
Launch beta version
Leuven / Belgium
During the summer of 2018, the minimum viable
product (MVP) of StreetSmart was ready
for the first release, the alpha version. The alpha
version was made available only for internal
testing and for testing at our partners. The
goal of this step was to make StreetSmart ready
for the public launch, the beta version.
StreetSmart is a tool to support street and
youth workers around the world in their work.
StreetSmart allows them to improve their activity
reporting, case management and most importantly,
to monitor the self-esteem evolution
of the children they’re working with.
StreetSmart has been developed by Mobile
School with the indispensable support of Share.
IT and the Erasmus+ programme. Through Accenture
Paris, Share.IT provided over 200 days
of their IT development team to code the application.
The Erasmus+ programme, on the other
hand, allowed us to involve 3 Mobile School
partners in Poland and Greece, who supported
us with the user testing, feedback, setting up
the user requirements and with the further
investigation of the user needs in a research
report.
In the last months, together with the developers
of Accenture, the StreetSmart application
was debugged and the last developments were
finished. Next to the technical work, all legal documents
were prepared. Finally, the first commercial
and user support videos and documents are
ready to support our partners as well as possible.
Almost set for the real launch...
IMPACT
Beta version of StreetSmart ready for launch
First line of user support videos
Legal documentation
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DESIGN technical Manual of mobile school
10/10/2017 • 12/02/2018
Sara Orozco (intern/volunteer)
Rob Sweldens
Standardised production
mobile schools
Munsterbilzen / Belgium
Since the start of Mobile School, the production
of the mobile schools is centralised and
executed by the Provinciale Secundaire School
Bilzen (PSSB).
In 2016-2017, a new design of the mobile
school was developed and the first prototype
was sent to Patras in Greece in November
2016. Since then, some changes have been
made based on feedback from the field.
Sara Orozco, a Colombian student of Product
Design did her internship at Mobile School
in 2017 and started with the development of
assembly manuals for all the parts of the
mobile school, in cooperation with the teachers
of the PSSB. The idea was to create an IKEAlike
guideline for the production of the mobile
school.
IMPACT
After her internship, Sara continued her
A clear guideline for the mobile school production
work as a volunteer. She created seperate
Technical drawings of the different parts of the mobile school
chapters for the motion system, the outside
box, the inside box, the chalkboard panels
and the final assembly of all the parts.
A quicker procedure to produce the mobile school
Thanks to this Assembly Manual, the production
is now more standardised than before. We
A more standardised procedure to produce the mobile school
now also have a clear guideline of how the mobile
school is produced, which is a first back-up
in case we would lose or alter our partnership
with PSSB in the future.
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davidsfonds • traditions and rejuvenation
14/10/2017 • 23/06/2018
Tessa Goossens
Hans Lamberts
Arnoud Raskin
Davidsfonds
Flanders / Belgium
With more than 40.000 members, Davidsfonds
organises ten thousands of cultural activities
with love for history, heritage, language
and art in Flanders and Brussels every year.
Despite their relatively high number of
members, Davidsfonds felt a strong decline in
their members throughout the years (in 2000
they had +/- 80.000 members) and in the long
run they even feared for their existence because
of the litteral ‘extinction’ of their organisation
(high average age and a lack of rejuvenation).
That is why, as a socio-cultural network they rang
the alarmbel and wanted to start a new era of
innovation across the entire network.
StreetwiZe guided this process of alignment
and co-creation and tried to give every stakeholder
an opportunity for participation and a
voice in this ambitious project.
Ambassadors were trained to represent the new
mission through 20 anchoring days spread
across Flanders and Brussels. An ambitious project
that led to a new mission and vision co-created
with hundreds of volunteers.
The next step is combining all the input of the
widespread volunteers into the ‘inspiratiewijzer’
(‘inspiration pointer’) and creating an attractive
internal and external communication strategy .
Davidsfonds is on the road for 2025!
IMPACT
Creation of co-ownership with the volunteers
We started in October 2017 with an inspiring
keynote by Arnoud which was the starting point
of a trajectory that will run for over a year. After
this keynote it was time to put the Davidsfonds
employees, board members and volunteers
at work. We created a new mission and vision
with a steering committee that captured ideas
and concerns among the members, based on
hundreds of conversations.
Over 500 participants in trainings and keynote
Introduction of a bottom-up approach
Sharpened mission and vision for Davidsfonds
Training of ambassadors
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NAME OF THE PARTNER
IMPROVED COACHING STRATEGY FOR PARTNERS
mobile school certificate of quality
“A VISUAL OVERVIEW OF THE SOCIAL IMPACT REALISED BY YOUR LOCAL MOBILE SCHOOL TEAM.”
2018
01/01/2018
Wim Depickere
Rob Sweldens
Sander Degeling
Joke Verreth
Mobile School partners
Leuven / Belgium
Up until now, partners only sent us a quantitative
evaluation: the number of street sessions
they organised with the mobile school and the
number of children participating during those
sessions. Since not only the amount of children
reached defines the social impact our partners
are having on the streets, we drew up a social
impact scorecard, to register the quality of the
organised street sessions as well.
Based on 20 years of experience on the streets
and on research with our partners, Mobile
School defined six criteria we believe are
important to having a lasting sustainable
impact on the streets: structure & environment,
self-evaluation, didactics, counseling
skills, motivation and creativity.
At the end of the year, all partners rate themselves
on these criteria during an evaluating
meeting with the entire Mobile School team.
In addition, they write an explanation of the
scores given and formulate concrete actions
Mobile School, the Mobile School network and
their local Mobile School team can take to increase
their impact score on that particular criterion
in the future.
The Mobile School Partnership Coordinators
rate the partners on the same criteria, based on
the information gathered during evaluations,
Skype calls, expeditions and visits.
Afterwards, a Skype meeting is planned to compare
the scores given by the local team and by
the Partnership Coordinator. Possible differences
are discussed and at the end of the Skype call, a
final score is agreed upon for each criterion.
An animated how-to video was made and sent to
all partners to explain the new procedure.
This new way of measuring impact was evaluated
positively by both the partner organisations
as the Mobile School team, since the impact
scorecard allows for a more elaborate discussion
of certain aspects of the work with the mobile
school.
As of next year, we will send a Certificate of Quality
to all our partners as well: a visualisation
of their quality score and the evolution of their
quality scores over the years, in comparison to
the average quality scores of all Mobile School
partners. Partners will be able to see how their
criteria scores evolve over the years and which
actions they can/should undertake to increase
them.
IMPACT
Social impact measurement of partner organisations
Increased quality of coaching
More in-depth information for Partnership Coordinators
Pinpoint challenges, tailor future workshops & coachings
Visualisation of the actions to take to increase impact
1. STRUCTURE & ENVIRONMENT
= The logistical support & planning of the mobile school sessions
2. SELF-EVALUATION
= The short- and long term planning & evaluation of the mobile school sessions
3. DIDACTICS
= The transfer of knowledge during mobile school sessions & the knowledge of the target group
QUALITY SCORE
NAME OF PARTNER
2018:
actions to take
45/50
45/50
45/50
45/50
4. COUNSELING SKILLS
= The interaction of the team with children during mobile school sessions
5. MOTIVATION
= The motivation & drive of the team for the work with the mobile school
6. CREATIVITY
= The creativity of the team before (planning) & during mobile school sessions
QUALITY SCORE
NAME OF THE PARTNER • 2017
QUALITY SCORE DIAGRAM EVOLUTION OF QUANTITY
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NAME OF THE PARTNER • 2017
NAME OF THE PARTNER • 2018
GLOBAL AVERAGE • 2018
NAME OF THE PARTNER • 2017
NAME OF THE PARTNER • 2018
GLOBAL AVERAGE • 2018
GLOBAL AVERAGE • 2018
2586
2586
2586 2586
2586
2586
45/50
45/50
45/50
45/50
45/50
customer centricity • new wrap-up materials
01/01/2018 • 30/06/2018
StreetwiZe partners
Ine Stessens
Kim Swyngedouw
Bram Swartenbroekx (intern)
More qualitative after sales
During the spring o 2018, StreetwiZe’ after
sales service was boosted. Each workshop has
been summarised in a short wrap-up document
.
These wrap-up documents are the ideal ‘reminder’
document for participants covering all
essential content elements and exercises.
The wrap-ups are also available in English and
French. This way we can offer our clients a professional
follow-up.
Leuven / Belgium
IMPACT
Client-oriented approach
Wrap-ups sent to 87 companies
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Vlerick • an established partnership
01/01/2018 • 30/06/2018
Bram Doolaege
Vlerick Management Prgr
Flanders / Belgium
When StreetwiZe was founded in 2008, Vlerick
Business School became one of our first regular
clients convinced of the added value that
StreetwiZe could bring in their in-company
and open leadership programmes. This cooperation
evolved over the years from StreetwiZe
being an external supplier that was offering
ad hoc trainings on Pitching, Storytelling and
Creativity to being an integrated partner that
co-designs tailored offerings.
In 2018, Vlerick Business School remained one
of our biggest partners supporting a significant
amount of our social impact on street youth.
More than 200 young managers, owners and
experienced business leaders got StreetwiZed
in 2018.
We facilitated workshops on Positive Focus,
Connect and on Agility & Resilience for both customised
clients (like Enza, Rabobank, NN, Eandis,
AGC, …) and for open programmes. We sat
around the table to brainstorm and co-design
some new content regarding specific business
questions and we delivered several inspirational
keynotes on social entrepreneurship and our
unique business model in some of the customised
programmes.
the tight cooperation this last 10 years. As a result,
StreetwiZe gets the opportunity to bring its
expertise in the field of social and hybrid entrepreneurship
to a broad audience. This residency
tightens the bonds between StreetwiZe and Vlerick
Business School even further.
IMPACT
Introducing contemporary people skills
Applying the StreetwiZe vision to the challenges of business
Strengthening business both with Techniques and Skills
On top of that, Arnoud was invited to become
30 Entrepreneur in Residence, as a recognition of
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Educational Materials in two new languages
01/01/2018 • 30/12/2018
Sander Degeling
Clement Silungwe
Nadia Pierre Louis
Typeface
2 new translations
In 2018, Mobile School decided to invest in
two new translations to offer our educational
materials to partners in two new partners
countries.
In August, a mobile school project was started
up in the Malawian capital Lilongwe. Before the
shipment of the mobile school, all our educational
materials were translated into Chichewa,
the dominant local language spoken by about
12 million native speakers in Malawi, Zambia,
Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
new Creole panels will leave Belgium before the
end of the year to make sure they arrive safe and
sound in Port-au-Prince before the start of the
implementation trainings.
Malawi / Haiti
Since it wasn’t easy to find Chichewa speakers
in Belgium who were willing and able to
assist in the translation process, the people of
our partner Chisomo Children’s Club in Malawi
invested a lot of time in translating. In collaboration
with our supplier Typeface, the translations
were added to the educational panels.
IMPACT
All panels translated to Chichewa and Haitian Creole
After finishing the translation process into
Chichewa, a second translation project was
Potential to implement more mobile schools in these countries
A qualitative set of educational panels for the local partner
started to prepare the implementation of a
new mobile school in the Haitian capital Portau-Prince
in February 2019. Together with the
local partner, the Mobile School team decided
to translate the educational panels into Haitian
Creole, a French-based creole language
spoken by 10–12 million people worldwide,
32 and the only language of most Haitians. The
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A glimpse of our Keynote season
01/01/2018 • 31/12/2018
Arnoud Raskin
Employees worldwide
Belgium & Abroad
Every year, we inspire over 7000 people with
our story.
Since 2008, StreetwiZe is a frequently asked
provider of inspirational speeches that motivate
and trigger companies and their employees
to look at challenging situations and
contexts differently.
This year, Arnoud was invited by 51 companies
to showcase our hybrid story and social impact.
An inspirational keynote that opens minds and
stimulates action. Not only profit companies,
but also schools and social profit organisations
are regular clients. They are all convinced of
the added value this story brings in looking at
business and education from a different perspective.
In 2018, Arnoud gave keynotes in Belgium,
The Netherlands, Turkey & the United States,
etc. That is what we call worldwide impact!
IMPACT
51 inspired companies
7354 people learned what it means to be StreetwiZe
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profesSionalisinG THE STREETWIZE BACK OFFICE
01/01/2018 • 31/12/2018
Kim Swyngedouw
Joyce van Eijndt
Ine Stessens
StreetwiZe clients
Leuven / Belgium
Part of growing as an organisation, in numbers
as well as in maturity, means professionalising
your back office.
The challenge for us is to do this while keeping
administration to a minimum and - by all
means - without upsetting our customers.
We optimised sales and after sales processes:
we centralised administration, streamlined
internally while keeping it all lean. The backoffice
now produces all work orders and carefully
follows up until signature. Our customers
receive a summary of all evaluations and a
wrap-up of the session to share with the participants.
In 2018 we also set out the goal to create a new
Salesforce environment. The old environment
needed such a large ‘make-over’ and clean-up
that we decided to start an entirely new one.
Another improvement was the creation of an onboarding
document for new StreetwiZe trainers.
Among other things it contains a ‘who is who’
and a step-by-step plan to guide new trainers
from gradually immersing themselves in the
workshop content to eventually performing
workshops by themselves.
IMPACT
Customer delight & satisfaction
Instant, detailed and accurate data output
We took advantage of the opportunity to create
new page lay-outs, more apt to what we do and
New trainer support
designed with a focus on output. We will update
fields and rethink ‘input convenience’. All
will serve the necessary outcome: reports and
dashboards that give us performance and impact
figures at a glance. The project had some
delays, so we will continue building this new
environment all through 2019.
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Workshopping for 122 different clients
01/01/2018 • 31/12/2018
StreetwiZe Partners
StreetwiZe clients
Belgium & The Netherlands
In addition to the various long-term training
programmes (more details on these elsewhere
in this annual report), there is a significant
number of clients who sign up for a ‘standard’
half day or full day workshop.
During a StreetwiZe session we inspire people,
inform them about the essence of a street skill
or technique and explore the concrete application
of that skill or technique in their work
environment. In most cases we start with a specific
business or organisational challenge. We
use the street as a metaphor to reflect on this
challenge, change perception and eventually
guide participants towards action plans and
results.
2018 was also the year in which we fully made
use of our training room. We rented it out 17
times in total, on average twice a month. As such
we welcomed 308 people in the heart of our organisation.
IMPACT
Overal results:
In 2018 we worked with 122 different
clients in industries ranging from government,
financial institutions, non-profit organisations,
122 boosted clients
communication, education, IT to healthcare.
13.718 inspired people
We closed 196 projects and delivered 574
training days: 88 inspirational sessions and
484 workshops, of which 1/3 full days. Overall
we welcomed 13.718 participants and drove
62.989 kilometers to connect with them. Most
deliveries we do in Belgium, but for 1 out of
10 we travel abroad. We frequently deliver in
The Netherlands but we also travel to France,
Germany and even the US.
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UGent Postdocs • Creativity, Agility & Pitching
01/01/2018 • 31/12/2018
Bram Doolaege
UGent - PostDocs
Ghent / Belgium
This year we also trained an enthusiastic group
of postdocs of the University of Ghent in
Positive Focus, Agility and Pitching. Since a few
years, StreetwiZe is an established supplier. We
developed a customised programme that we
have been running for several years now and
that supports the postdocs in developing those
skills that are crucial in coping with the challenges,
stress and heavy pressure of writing a
postdoc.
In 2018 we ran two cycles of this programme,
one in spring and one in fall, taking 40 postdocs
through this three-day programme.
IMPACT
Increase impact using the creative skillset as a postdoc
Increase impact using persuasion skills and pitching
Keep on going, using agility and resilience
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Barco & Exellys • learning through experience
01/01/2018 • 31/12/2018
Saskia Dieleman
Bram Vandeputte
Bart Vanbellinghen
Hans Lamberts
Barco (2x) • Exellys
Ruiselede, Beernem,
Wingene / Belgium
2018 was the third year that Belgian Expeditions
were part of our offer. The concept is that
we take business people to youth detention
center “De Zande” in Ruiselede, where they
step into a unique co-creation with youngsters
that have been deprived of their freedom
because of criminal facts or an alarming situation.
Together they receive the invitation to
work on new educational material for Mobile
School, and it is clear that the business participants
play a crucial role in bringing this
to a good end. Being able to connect with an
unknown target group, bringing engagement
and inspiration and finding ways to continuously
empower is crucial; both within this
expedition as in professional life. And that’s
exactly what we work on during the intervisions
and reflections that are part of this
programme, when we translate the learnings
of the expedition into professional life together
with the client.
the two, Vlerick Business School proposes five
online modules related to different business
acumen.
In October, Exellys - a young and dynamic ITconsultancy
firm - joined us at De Zande for the
second edition of their GrowSmart-programme.
Like in 2017, 10 Exellys consultants went into
close cooperation with the youngsters in the youth
detention center. The Exellys participants are
typically young, technical, high potential
employees for which the participation in the
Belgian Expedition is a unique way to learn
more about some crucial principles of leadership
they are challenged on in the projects they
work in, or will be challenged on in their future
management roles.
IMPACT
Inspire, engage and empower youngsters in De Zande
Explain crucial leadership aspects for business participants
In September we organised two parallel Belgian
expeditions for Barco: one in De Zande
campus Wingene, and one in campus Beernem.
Offer a unique opportunity to put leadership into practice
Translate into actions valid for the professional environment
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Thirty Barco “emerging leaders” flew in
from all over the world to Ruiselede, for the
kick off of their Emerging Leader Program. This
programme is a one- year, in-company learning
journey, which StreetwiZe kicks off and
closes on the topic of leadership. In between
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streetsmart • Transnational Meeting greece
24/01/2018 • 26/01/2018
Rob Sweldens
Wim Depickere
Lies De Vocht
Erasmus+ KA2
Thessaloniki / Greece
Since September last year, Mobile School
NPO is the leading partner in an Erasmus+
programme on case management for non-formal
education in youth work. Together with
partner organisations CME GPU-UNO (Poland
- Robert Cieslar), ARSIS and PRAKSIS (Greece
- Alberto Perez and Eirini Karanikola), Mobile
School is developing a digital tool for personal
case management within youth work
in non-formal education. Therefore, we chose
to apply for the Erasmus+ programme and
started a KA2 project: Strategic partnerships
supporting innovation. Being able to partner
with organisations with different expertise is
a necessary condition for developing this tool.
Cooperation with relevant partners and youth
work initiatives help define the user’s needs,
assess the user-friendliness and disseminate
this project. Within this programme, the EU
encourages programme countries to share their
experiences in transnational project meetings.
At the end of January, we organised the second
transnational project meeting in Thessaloniki.
The first one took place in Leuven in October
2017.
The meeting started with a short update on
the first intellectual output, the research report
on case management within youth- and street
work.
The main focus of the transnational project
meeting was the update on the current screens
we had for the mobile application, SYD (working
title - Street Youth Development). As it was the
first time our partners saw these screens, it was
important to get their feedback. Afterwards the
main goal was to prioritise all our needs and
wants. This way our developers from Accenture
(via Share.IT - French Tech4 Good Partner) could
start developing. A lot of conversations and discussions
were held, but it was all very insightful.
Some of the methodologies we were thinking of
using within the mobile application, were also
tested in a rudimentary way (on paper, with Google
Forms…) during a street intervention with
PRAKSIS. Not only the mobile school coordinator
of PRAKSIS did this, but also her volunteers and
they were all really enthusiastic.
To finish this transnational project meeting, the
Greek partners invited their testing hub partners.
These organisations are willing to help test SYD
when we have a first version. We organised an
afternoon during which we presented our organisation
and the SYD application.
IMPACT
Update on research report on case management in youth work
Feedback on current screens for mobile application
Prioritising of features for development
Testing of methodologies in a street intervention
Meeting with Greek testing hubs
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Redesign mathematical educational offer
01/02/2018 • 30/09/2018
Anastasia Panitsa (intern)
Rob Sweldens
Saskia Dieleman
Sander Degeling
Lies De Vocht
Improve mathematical offer
In February, the Mobile School team initiated
a project to redesign the mathematical panels
offered to partner organisations worldwide.
Thanks to the efforts of our Greek intern
Anastasia Panitsa, a thorough evaluation of the
mathematical panels was conducted. Anastasia
worked with the mobile school of PRAKSIS in
Patras, Greece and did a three-month internship
at the Mobile School office in Belgium. After
doing a survey with the Mobile School partners,
Anastasia shared her recommendations
to redesign the Mobile School mathematical
package in a report.
At the same time, the redesign of the mathematical
offer is also a solid starting point for the redesign
of the entire educational package. The team
already started the revision of the coding system,
and in the coming months these changes will be
implemented in the partnership strategy.
Leuven / Belgium
During the summer, the Mobile School team
and Saskia Dieleman finetuned these recommendations
in order to start the redesign
process of the new mathematical package. The
main objective of the new package is to offer
more attractive panels that are adapted to the
daily reality of street-connected children, since
the most important feedback of partners was
that a lot of the orange panels were not often
played by the kids on the streets because they
were too abstract. Moreover, the new package
IMPACT
Newly designed numeracy package adapted to the streets
New internal structure & coding system for 88 numeracy panels
Less text to make translations to new languages easier
Solid start for the redesign of the entire educational package
contains less mathematical panels and integrated
some of the panels with other codes
that were in fact dealing with mathematics. The
new mathematical offer will now be translated
and will be sent to partner organisations from
46 early 2019.
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Mobile School Café
15/02/2018
StreetwiZe • Mobile School
Volunteers in Belgium
Leuven / Belgium
Mobile School Café is the perfect informal way
to bring the team and our volunteers together.
We transform the StreetwiZe • Mobile School
office into a pub. A cosy place where you come
and go as you please. Where volunteers can
chat and catch up with each other or with the
team.
There are different tables, each with its own
theme, and you can go and join your preferred
table/theme. As a volunteer, you can guide
the conversation by asking specific questions
about things you’d like to know. What would
you like to know about, for example, the new
StreetwiZe colleagues, the challenges our
digital story comes with or what about the next
campaign?
Conversations are informal like they are in any
pub: spontaneous and authentic.
For our organisation it is of utmost importance
not to spread all information to our volunteers
by means of presentations. When looking for
a creative way to spread information, we came
up with the idea of the Mobile School Café. As
a visitor in the Café you can decide what you’ll
learn and what you’d like to know more about.
Every Café comes with a wide variety of tables
with different themes. There are, however, always
tables available for volunteers to talk about
specific street contexts. Experience taught us a
lot of volunteers feel the need to get in touch
with the street context and our target audience.
This doesn’t only help them in their work
as a volunteer, but they also feel involved. Volunteers
have to know why and for whom they
engage themselves. Evenings like the Mobile
School café contribute to a good understanding
between volunteers and the organisation.
‘Mobile School Café for me means looking
through the eyes of street workers (trainers) and
meet the kids through them. It gives an energy
boost and I always go home happily knowing
Mobile School really makes a difference for many
street children all over the world.’ • Rita Cortvrindt,
volunteer
‘Mobile School Café is a synonym for a nice
relaxing evening, full of updates, nice chats, tasty
snacks with the best volunteer team ever.’ • Lore
De Muynck, volunteer
IMPACT
Connection between volunteers and team
Sharing new information
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MS Playground • launch prototype
20/02/2018
Mobile School Team
Improve digital offer
Leuven / Belgium
In order to scale our impact on the streets,
Mobile School is developing two digital tools
to drastically improve the quality of support
offered to our network of street work partners.
Besides the case management application,
StreetSmart, Mobile School is developing an
online content library where street educators
can find inspiration to create new games to
use during their outreach interventions on the
streets.
The first version of the Mobile School Playground
was launched in February 2018 for Mobile
School partners. In May, the Mobile School
prospects - organisations that are not (yet)
working with the mobile school but are part
of the network - were given access to try out
the MS Playground as well. The platform created
through the popular web-development
platform WIX contains 60 ‘inspiration’ games
at the moment. For all of these games a manual
file and pictures are available so that street
educators can easily reproduce the games and
adapt the game concepts to their local context
and needs. Some of the games also have
a video explanation. The inspirational game
concepts are collected during StreetwiZe expeditions,
Mobile School exchange programmes
or through the Mobile School partner projects.
the ‘inspiration’ page updated with new game
concepts while preparing the important second
part of the website: the Do It Yourself games
(DIY-games). These games are processed by our
educational volunteers and are offered to partners
as a ready-to-print game concept including
a how-to-play manual, pictures, a how-to-make
explanation and graphical files so that partners
can just print the game locally before attaching
it to their mobile school. Next year, this temporary
WIX-platform will function as an inspiration
to build a state-of-the-art digital content platform
with more options for filtering, selecting and
adding new games.
IMPACT
Exchange of knowledge between partner organisations
New inspiration for educational games for street workers
More accessible information on mobile school activities
Shorter time-to-market for new educational game concepts
50 In the coming months, the team will keep
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DESIGN Repair Manual of mobile school
22/02/2018 • 22/05/2018
Sara Orozco (volunteer)
Rob Sweldens
Once a Mobile School partner receives a
mobile school, they become responsible for its
maintenance. Through the years, similar problems
from partners in different countries were
reported to us. Often these solutions required
a better understanding of the specific technical
design of the mobile school.
Thanks to the manual, street educators or local
mechanics can get a better understanding of
how the mobile school has been designed and
of which parts can or must be replaced.
Production schools
Munsterbilzen / Belgium
Therefore we decided to develop a standardised
repair manual for street educators
with responses on the most frequently asked
technical questions:
• How to open & close the mobile school?
• How to change the brakes and braking
cable?
• How to change the wheels?
• How to do maintenance inside the boxes?
• How to create the point & grid frames on
the panels?
• How to change the pegs?
Sara Orozco, a Colombian student of Product
Design, developed this repair manual in cooperation
with the Mobile School staff and the
teachers of the Provinciale Secundaire School
Bilzen (PSSB). Every new Mobile School partner
will receive this manual.
IMPACT
A clear guideline for the technical use of the mobile school
Better technical follow-up of partner projects
More independence for partners
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Follow-up bolivia • compa La Paz
26/02/2018 • 27/02/2018
Joke Verreth
COMPA La Paz
La Paz / Bolivia
The mobile school project in La Paz was started
up in 2004. The project was very successful at
first, but lost priority within the organisation
over the course of the years.
Currently, COMPA La Paz is very unstable due to
lack of funding. Consequently, there is no funding
to coordinate the mobile school project
either, which is why the project is run by
German volunteers of the organisation Weltweite
Initiative (WI). The volunteers stay in Bolivia
for a year and then train their successors to
take over their projects.
Although the previous group of volunteers
followed the Mobile School summer training
in Belgium, it was clear that there had been
practically no knowledge transfer, since the
volunteers did not know how to work with the
Mobile School materials. The mobile school
was mostly used to create the space to play
with the children, but was hardly ever actively
used during the outreach sessions.
the transfer of knowledge to the next group
of volunteers and find a way to involve local
people, which would drastically increase the sustainability
of the street work.
The methodology behind the Mobile School materials
was clearly explained and the volunteers
came up with creative activities with the panels,
which were then put into practice during a visit
to the streets.
The target group of COMPA El Alto are the
children and youngsters assisting their parents
on the local market.
In addition to the training, we organised meetings
with the management of COMPA El Alto
and with the management of WI to strengthen
ties and to discuss future plans and goals with
regards to the local mobile school project.
IMPACT
4 volunteers trained
Knowledge about StreetwiZe • Mobile School increased
Creative use of Mobile School materials enhanced
That is why we decided to focus on the basics
during the follow-up visit. We started with a
general introduction of StreetwiZe • Mobile
School. Afterwards, the two volunteers coordinating
the project evaluated the project
Motivation of team increased
Connection with local management strengthened
Connection with management of WI strengthened
during a coaching session and drew up a clear
list of to do’s to guarentee the stability of the
54 mobile school project in the future, i.e. improve
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Follow-up bolivia • IPTK-Cerpi
28/02/2018 • 01/03/2018
Joke Verreth
IPTK - Cerpi
Sucre / Bolivia
In Sucre, there is a lot of poverty. That’s why
many children and youngsters work on the
streets in different sectors (e.g. assisting carpenters,
washing busses, selling ice creams,...)
to contribute to the family income.
The children too young to work are often left to
their own devices. Their parents either work in
the city or in the countryside and aren’t home
a lot. The children are held responsible for all
household chores and for taking care of their
brothers and sisters. Because their parents are
hardly ever around, they lack adult rolemodels
and a positive outlet.
That is what the mobile school team tries to
offer them during the outreach sessions. By
playing games, the children and youngsters
get a chance to take their mind off their chores
for a while and to discover and develop their
talents.
In addition, the team organises creative workshops
to discuss important topics, such as
children’s rights, puberty and sexuality (still a
taboo in Bolivia).
Although there is a high turnover of volunteers,
the local coordinator, Gladys Fuentes, has been
running the project since the beginning and
she is the driving force behind the project.
During the follow-up visit, we joined the team
on the streets for two sessions and we gave an
introduction workshop about Mobile School
and our philosophy for the new volunteers.
In addition, we organised two coaching sessions:
a self-evaluation of the mobile school
project after 13 years (analysis of strengths &
weaknesses) and a coaching session during
which we actively worked with the educational
materials the team has hardly ever used on the
streets, to guarantee the optimal and creative
use of all panels.
IMPACT
8 street educators trained: 2 staff & 6 volunteers
Enhanced creativity & optimal use of educational materials
Clear evaluation of the mobile school project after 13 years
Concrete list of actions to take to increase future impact
The team of IPTK-Cerpi has been working with
the mobile school for 13 years now, since 2005.
The team does 8 outreach sessions per week in
8 different sectors.
Management informed & up to date about Mobile School
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Cevora • a streetwize leadership training
08/03/2018 • 31/12/2018
Tessa Goossens
Laure Laroche
Comp. in APCB or PC200
Belgium
In January 2018, StreetwiZe started up a
partnership with Cevora, becoming a new supplier
of leadership training in their open offer.
Every company that is affiliated in the APCB
or PC200, can subscribe. We developed
an inspiring leadership programme that
combines our Street Skills (Positive Focus, Agility
& Resilience, Proactive Creativity) and some
of the Street Techniques (Connect & Leading
Change).
The programme is organised twice a year both
in Dutch and French. This open offer is the ideal
opportunity for people that aren’t familiar
with the StreetwiZe • Mobile School philosophy
and for companies wanting to explore our
approach before booking an in-company training.
IMPACT
Reach target group with insufficient budget for StreetwiZe
Reach target group that needs a try-out session
Reach target group that isn’t familiar with StreetwiZe
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Exploration bolivia • Abriendo Puertas
05/03/2018 • 09/03/2018
Toña Pineda
Joke Verreth
Fundación Abriendo Puertas
Paz y Bien
Cochabamba / Bolivia
In March, a new potential partnership was
explored with Fundación Abriendo Puertas Paz
y Bien in Cochabamba, the third largest city in
Bolivia. The organisation was founded three
years ago and last year, they started up a successful
cooperation with Teatro Hecho a Mano, a
local theater group. In theory, they are two separate
entities, but in practice they function as
one organisation. A part of the proceeds of the
theater go to Fundación Abriendo Puertas Paz
y Bien and in return, the theater group can use
the building of the foundation, so both organisations
can split the operational costs and
are largely self-sustainable.
Currently, two outreach sessions are organised
each week at the local cemetery. A lot of youngsters
work there (cleaning tomb stones or praying/singing
to the deceased) to contribute to
the family income. The focus of the local team
is on prevention: preventing these youngsters
from crossing the line between working on the
streets to living on the streets.
During the outreach sessions, the team hands
out breakfast to the youngsters. They also tell
interactive stories, which captivate the children
and spark their imagination. The experience
in theater and clownery of the majority of the
team is a big added value to the street sessions.
In addition, the team has experience in giving
workshops on sexual education in schools, so
they will be able to discuss this very important
topic creatively during mobile school sessions as
well.
After a successful exploration, Fundación Abriendo
Puertas Paz y Bien will start up their mobile
school project in July. The local team shares
Mobile School’s vision on outreach work and
they are very motivated to implement our tool
during their street work activities. They have a
storage space at the cemetery, so no transport is
needed, and they are authorised to work on the
cemetery by the municipality. To safeguard the
collaboration, the team actively involves the municipality
employees in their activities.
In the future, the team wants to run a centre as
well where youngsters can attend workshops
and where they can spend the night if necessary.
Fundación Abriendo Puertas Paz y Bien will work
with the mobile school of former partner Yo Voy
a Ti. All necessary arrangements were made to
transfer all materials and to repair the school
before the implementation training.
IMPACT
8 people trained
Core team introduced to the Mobile School vision & methodology
Knowledge about street work & self-esteem enhanced
Transfer of the mobile school of Yo Voy a Ti
Bolivian network increased: participants from other organisations
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new school kenya • child rescue kenya
05/03/2018 • 16/03/2018
Sander Degeling
Janet Otieno
Child Rescue Kenya
Kitale / Kenya
After a successful exploratory visit in June
2017, Child Rescue Kenya and Mobile School
made the joint decision to implement a mobile
school in Kitale in 2018. Despite the relatively
small population of the north-western Kenyan
town, Kitale is one of the major hotspots for
street-connected children in the region. Strategically
located near the Ugandan border and
the Kenyan counties of West-Pokot and Turkana,
the town functions as an important transit
point for both street children and refugees. The
history of CRK goes back till 1988 and since
then the organisation is a major actor in the
field of street kids. Besides street work, the
organisation runs two centres and a learning
programme called Street Smart near the center
of town.
mobile school in their other programmes. In the
future, CRK aims to invest more financial resources
in street work in order to move further away
from the centre.
A huge added value during this implementation
was co-facilitator Janet Otieno - street worker
and coordinator of Mobile School partner Glad’s
House in Mombasa. Thanks to the presence of
Janet as a co-facilitator, the street workers were
able to get a clear insight into how the mobile
school functions in another Kenyan programme,
which was really helpful during the first interventions
on the street.
IMPACT
The mobile school activities have shown to
be an impactful extension of the Street Smart
programme. During the implementation trainings,
the team tested out different locations
near the old railway line in the centre of town.
Furthermore, they also plan to target the
dumpsite which is located further away from
the centre. A first session proved there is a huge
target group. During the first interventions, the
organisation reached a lot of older youth (15+)
12 people trained: both family workers and street workers
Solid basic knowledge on how to use the mobile school
Storage system installed in the office of the organisation
Exchange of experiences with Janet Otieno of Glad’s House
Identification of 3 good locations for MS sessions
Reinforced network with Railway Children Africa
with their mobile school interventions. In the
coming months, it will become clear how the
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Bolivian Mobile School Exchange
12/03/2018 • 16/03/2018
Toña Pineda
Joke Verreth
Bolivian MS Partners
Cochabamba / Bolivia
Our three Bolivian partner organisations -
COMPA Teatro Trono Cochabamba, COMPA Teatro
Trono El Alto and IPTK-Cerpi - have all been
working with the mobile school for more than
10 years. Since the last Bolivian Mobile School
exchange was organised in 2007 and all partners
indicated they would benefit from another
Mobile School training, we decided to bring
them together again.
The exchange was organised in Cochabamba,
so the entire team of COMPA Cochabamba
(nine street educators) could participate. We
invited two street educators from Sucre and El
Alto.
The street educators got to know each other
during a speeddate and exchanged their best
experiences with the mobile school. Then, they
sat down together to reflect on common local
challenges during the work with the mobile
school and on possible solutions for those
challenges. Mobile School’s new way to measure
social impact was discussed and the three
partner organisations looked at their social
impact and on how to possibly increase it in
the future. During the workshop on creativity,
three new board games were created, adapted
to the local context, about Bolivian geography
and culture and about recycling. These games
were tested out on the streets during a mobile
school session organised by the team of
COMPA Cochabamba and were evaluated
positively by their target group. All partners also
received new Mobile School panels. They played
and invented new games with the panels, which
will enable them to use the new panels during
future outreach sessions.
During the exchange, the street educators of our
different partner organisations really bonded.
They were reenergised by knowing that two other
teams were doing the same work and facing the
same challenges. They already created a Facebook
group to keep each other updated on the
work with the mobile school and to be able to
exchange best experiences, challenges and possible
solutions in the future as well.
We are convinced the exchange will increase
future collaborations between our different partner
organisations.
IMPACT
13 street educators trained
Bolivian Mobile School network strengthened
More motivated street work teams
Concrete ideas to increase future impact
Knowledge of new Mobile School educational materials
3 new panels, adapted to the Bolivian context
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Follow-up greece • Praksis Patras
12/03/2018 • 16/03/2018
Rob Sweldens
Koen Verrecht
PRAKSIS Patras
Patras / Greece
Our local partner PRAKSIS has been working
with the mobile school in the city and surroundings
of Patras since November 2016. Patras is
a port city and is seen as an exit point for refugees
who want to travel to Italy illegally, hiding
under trucks and in boats. PRAKSIS runs a
drop-in centre for refugees and an accomodation
centre for unaccompanied minors.
With the mobile school they have been reaching
out to unaccompanied minors and refugees in
abandoned factories around the port and did a
series of interventions in hotels at the seaside
where Syrian refugees were waiting for relocation.
Mobile School activities focus on
stress relief, trust building and especially on
building a connection point to inform refugees
and minors about their rights and about the
possibilities offered in the drop-in centre.
During the follow-up expedition, our trainers
gave workshops on counseling skills, the
Street Business Toolkit and during the creativity
workshop the trainees developed 3 new activities
which they will use in their daily activities.
During the coaching workshops, the local team
also assessed their strengths and challenges and
got extra information about educational panels
which weren’t clear for them. We gave a short
introduction on the general philosophy of
Mobile School and StreetwiZe and explained
the possiblities of “StreetSmart”, our case management
tool which is in development at the
moment.
The project has shown a big evolution since the
start and has been evaluated as an example project
of mobile school implementation.
IMPACT
13 people trained: 3 staff and 10 volunteers
Besides this, the team is reaching out to an
Improved counseling skills
isolated Roma community on the border of the
city, organising mobile school activities on a
Enhanced creativity by creating new activities
weekly basis. The educational level of the children
and adolescents is extremely low but they
Increased motivation of staff and team
are very enthusiastic to learn. The goal of the
More knowledge of and experience with difficult panels
mobile school activities here is mainly educational,
but the mobile school is also used as a
Clear list of to do’s to improve performance of project
way to enter a very closed community and gain
the trust of the adults and the community.
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Follow-up kenya • Glad’s House
19/03/2018 • 23/03/2018
Sander Degeling
Glad’s House
Mombasa / Kenya
Since July 2016, our local partner Glad’s House
is doing educational interventions with the
mobile school in the Kenyan coastal city of
Mombasa. The organisation focuses on different
locations in the city to reach street-connected
youngsters: the city centre around Makadara
and Maboxini, the dumpsite Kibarani and
the Remand Home in Likoni were a lot of the
street-connected children are referred to if they
are rounded up by the police. Police violence
is still a very big issue on the Kenyan streets.
By using the mobile school, the organisation
wants to strengthen their relationship of trust
with the target group and aims to offer educational
opportunities to a target group that has
limited or no access to any kind of education.
During the follow-up expedition, our trainers
gave some coaching workshops to discuss the
successes and challenges the local team faces
on the streets. Since the training was combined
with the implementation of the new
mobile school in Kitale, the team also received
some new panels which were trained and tested
immediately on the streets of Mombasa.
Despite some financial challenges, the organisation
is still extremely motivated to reach out
to street-connected children with the mobile
school.
The core team of the mobile school was already
in place during the exploration back in 2015,
which creates a great continuity within the project.
In the past, they have shown they are also
great ambassadors for Mobile School by spreading
the word through the StreetInvest network.
IMPACT
9 staff trained
Counseling skills of street educators improved
Creativity enhanced by creating new activities
Introduction of the Mobile School Playground
Extra motivation for coordinator through co-facilitation
Purchase procedure of van finalised
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vlajo • SOHO! day
20/03/2018
Fons Van den Broeck
Laure Laroche
Bram Doolaege
Tessa Goossens
VLAJO
Mechelen / Belgium
The purpose of the ‘SOHO! day’ is to inspire
professionals in the field of education, focusing
on the entrepreneurial skills of students. It
is a yearly convention where hundreds of professionals
come together to be inspired.
Together with a workgroup of Flemish universities,
StreetwiZe developed, a surprising
and out-of-the-box experience. Our trainers
hacked the principal hallway of LAMOT and
proposed some playful and non-formal
learning opportunities.
The hall was divided into four zones, every
zone represented a street skill and was marked
in space with scenographical elements.
The attendees of the SOHO! day were invited
to;
• take a sneak peek in the feedback corner
with our very own feedback-Fons,
• start a surprising conversation with a
random stranger in the coffee corner,
• fail hard at the speakers corner,
• do a guerilla graffiti on the windows of the
building.
In a nutshell: a fun programme with a naughty
wink and a lot of humour. Totally StreetwiZe!
IMPACT
400 attendees of the SOHO! day
Serious play with the street skills
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Official Opening new SWZ • MS office
21/03/2018
Joyce van Eijndt
Saskia Dieleman
Ine Stessens
Kim Swyngedouw
Partners & Clients
Leuven / Belgium
In March 2017 the StreetwiZe • Mobile School
crew moved to the new ‘hand-made’ office in
the former Studio (film theatre) in the centre of
Leuven. One year later the official opening was
organised; a sparkling evening event for clients
and partners, with a showcase of StreetSmart
(at that time still called SYD - Street Youth Development),
a debate, drinks & snacks.
About 150 people listened to different viewpoints
in or debate on the question
“Can technology help tackling poverty and exclusion?”
The Tech4Good panel consisted of:
• Mathilde Aglietta, Share.IT
• Olivier Gillerot, Accenture
• François Gitton, ex CIO in different multinationals
and Mobile School mentor
throughout the design and development
process of the StreetSmart app.
It was an easy-going, pleasant and successful
evening with interesting contacts. Mobile
School volunteers were of invaluable help in
making this evening a success.
IMPACT
150 guests
Positive vibes in our network
Update of the StreetSmart project
Visit of the new office
Tech4Good debate
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Follow-up POLAND • Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla
23/03/2018 • 25/03/2018
Robert Cieślar
Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla
Krakau / Poland
The mobile school project in Krakow, Poland
was started up in 2008. The project has had
its ups and downs over the course of the
years, but due to recent positive changes, the
impact of their local mobile school project and
its susainability have increased considerably.
In 2016, a project application submitted by
Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla was approved by the
City of Krakau, giving them resources for three
years to organise five street sessions per week
with paid street educators. The team works in 5
different sectors. In Krakau, low-income families
(Polish and Roma families) are housed in
apartment blocks built in the communist era,
which are referred to as “social ghettos”. Many
families struggle with drug and alcohol abuse
and unwanted pregnancies. The mobile school
team works with the children living in these
“ghettos”.
Before the mobile school interventions, many
children were aggressive - due to the lack of a
positive outlet - and lacked social skills. During
the outreach sessions, the team encourages
the children, builds up their confidence and
teaches them to play together and follow the
rules. The street educators have noticed a lot of
positive improvements in the behaviour of the
children over the years.
With the mobile school, the team also tries to
bridge the gap between the children’s neighbourhoods
and the school. Although the children
have the possibility to go to school, they often
skip classes. Due to their low self-esteem, they
don’t have a sense of belonging. Consequently,
they act out a lot and are often expelled. Again,
the team has noticed improvements thanks to
their outreach work.
The team requested a Mobile School training,
because 12 new volunteers were joining them.
Usually, new volunteers are trained by the team
itself, but since they received funds to finance
the training, they applied for a Mobile School
training instead. During the three-day follow-up,
the new volunteers participated in the general
presentation of the Mobile School vision and
methodology and learned how to drive and
maintain the mobile school during the technical
workshop. In addition, they actively played and
invented games with the educational materials
and followed the workshop on self-esteem. All
new volunteers were extremely motivated to
start working with the mobile school.
IMPACT
12 volunteers trained
Knowledge of Mobile School educational materials
Knowledge of self-esteem model
Increased motivation to work with the mobile school
Increased future impact of local project
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AG Insurance • Trainee Programme
28/03/2018 • 22/06/2018
Eric Vanbiervliet
Laure Laroche
Bram Doolaege
L&D AG Insurance
The goal of AG Insurance’s Trainee Programme
is to enable its trainees to further develop
some essential skills, as part of an onboarding
process.
Working on ‘self-awareness’ is a first important
theme. Trainees are expected to quickly and
autonomously generate added value within
diverse environments, which requires a solid
knowledge of your own functioning, and that
of others. AG Insurance wants to offer its trainees
basic knowledge of project management
and empower them in the fields of presenting,
convincing and influencing.
The second session on Project Management focused
on the different phases and key elements
of a successful project. With help of a professional
actor we specifically practised typical challenges
for project leaders.
During the ‘Pitching’ session, the participants
learned how to present their project in an
efficient though enthusiastic manner. They also
defined which resources they have to direct their
audience towards the right (re)action. ‘Storytelling’
helped the trainees to discover the
added value of a strong story in such a context.
Brussels / Belgium
A parallel objective of the project is to stimulate
connection between trainees and to create
a community in which people continuously
learn from each other in an informal setting.
Throughout the programme, participants are
asked to work on a concrete project. That creates
tangible learning environments, but it is
also an added value for the organisation, to be
challenged by the next generation.
Finally, two half-day projectlabs were set up,
during which the trainees further shaped and
managed their projects. During the final session
they summarised their own learnings in a personal
story and communicated on the status of
their pro-jects to coaches and managers.
IMPACT
Self-awareness through reflection
Developing project management skills
Developing communication skills
After a starting session with a StreetwiZe Story,
a two-day seminar was organised on Agility &
Resilience. Inspired by these reflections and
based on Positive Focus and Proactive Creativity,
Reflection and project development on challenging issues
Community building within the group
Positioning & networking within the company
we then identified useful projects to
be shaped and started up throughout the programme.
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International Day for Street Children
12/04/2018
StreetwiZe • Mobile School
Volunteers
General public
Ghent / Belgium
On the International Day for Street Children
we organised “Who is Junieth”, an awareness
campaign to show the general public the
potential of street-connected children.
During the night of 11 April, the Streetwize •
Mobile School volunteers and team went to
the streets of Ghent. With chalk, flyers and banners
they spread the question “Who is Junieth”
throughout the city. Very early in the morning of
12 April, the residents of Ghent wondered who
Junieth was. Press was contacted; more and
more people became curious. You could also
see curiosity growing on social media channels.
At 12h04 the answer was finally given. On
our website (www.wieisjunieth.be) you could
see a movie about the life of Junieth.
By distributing this video, StreetwiZe •
Mobile School, wants to spread the message.
Stop focusing on the problems and
misery! Let us shift the paradigm and
focus on a potential of 150 million children
and young people that is not being tapped into
by society. Everyone has something to offer!
Thanks to the help of our volunteers, we manage to
set up a large campaign each year that receives the
necessary media attention. That way we can
reach even more people.
We are not only actively engaged in the International
Day for Street Children in Belgium. The
Mobile School partner organisations often celebrate
this day as well. For them it is an opportunity
to organise a special activity on the street or
to communicate to the outside world about their
daily work on the street.
IMPACT
+ 13 000 people visited the special website on April 12th
+ 500 people watched the movie
#wieisjunieth was trending on Twitter for several hours
5 newspapers communicated about the action
The International Day for Street Children
remains an important day for us as an organisation.
3 television channels and 4 radio stations brought our story
20 Mobile School partners organised activities
In a creative, positive way, we
want to tell the general public about street-
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new school poland • GTW Gliwice
15/04/2018 • 27/04/2018
Koen Verrecht
Robert Cieślar
GTW Gliwice
Gliwice / Poland
Gliwice was known for its thriving steel industry.
Then, the industry collapsed, leading to a lot
of poverty in the region. The apartments that
were originally built for the steel workers
dilapidated over the years and they now house
a lot of families with socio-economical problems.
Within these families, alcohol abuse and
unwanted pregnancies are very common.
GTW Gliwice was founded 14 years ago to reach
out to the children and youngsters from these
families, who spend most of their time on the
streets or in the communal backyards of their
apartment blocks. Initially, the focus was mainly
on football activities, but over the course of
the years they rolled out an extensive street
work programme. In addition to the sessions
on the streets, the team runs two daily centres,
where various activities are organised.
The team applied for a mobile school to diversify
the street work activities offered and to be
able to reach even more children. After a successful
exploration of the project in September
last year, both Mobile School and GTW Gliwice
were eager to cooperate. Following the approval
of a project application, the team was able to
extend their street work programme: do more
street work sessions in more areas. The implementation
training came at the perfect time for
the new street work team, since all new team
members are now informed about the Mobile
School methodology and thanks to the intensive
training week, a close-knit team was created.
The mobile school project is a priority within the
organisation and the entire team is really motivated
to start working with the tool. The team can
benefit from the outreach work they have done
over the years, which has allowed them to build
up a trusting relationship with the children and
their families in the areas where they work.
During the training, the Polish Mobile School
network was strengthened as well. Street workers
from Mobile School partner Fundacja Ukryte
Skrzydla participated in parts of the training and
the coordinator from our partner in Bytom, GPU
Uno, co-facilitated the training. In addition, a conference
was organised on the first day to inform
the city council and other potential stakeholders.
IMPACT
16 people trained
50th mobile school implemented
Close-knit & motivated team of street educators
Knowledge of Mobile School edcuational materials
Polish Mobile School netwerk strengthened
City council & other stakeholders informed
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Exploration togo • AGOPODE
16/04/2018 • 20/04/2018
Sander Degeling
AGOPODE
For the first time in Mobile School history,
an exploratory expedition was organised
in a French-speaking West-African country.
Destination: Lomé, the capital city of Togo.
The organisation AGPODE is supported by
the Belgian vzw Dédé, and that’s how the
coordinator Sesse Koffi Awunyo learned about
Mobile School. Sesse grew up in an impoverished
neighbourhood in the Togolese capital
and is definitely an example of a StreetwiZe
personality in West-Africa.
Besides this, it will be key to determine if the mobile
school will be managed by one or two organisations.
In the near future, a meeting will be held
with AGOPODE and VZW Dédé to determine the
potential next steps.
Lomé / Togo
For the exploratory expedition, the team of
AGOPODE invited six other organisations that
are currently working with street-connected
children in Lomé. One of those organisations
- ONG ANGE - was also part of the Dynamo
International network and is visited very often
by international volunteers. All trainings were
organised in the offices of ONG ANGE.
IMPACT
19 people trained from 6 organisations
During the exploratory expedition, it became
clear that there is definitely a huge target
group for the work with a mobile school
in Togo. During the interventions on the
beach, the team of social workers showed
they have a very solid connection with the
Different organisations in Lomé brought together
First exploratory expedition in French-speaking West-Africa
High motivation to start the work with a mobile school
Lots of potential to start a new mobile school in a new region
children. The main challenge to implement
the mobile school is to find enough budget
to support the street workers in their interventions
82 (especially transport and salaries).
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Follow-up GERMANY • Jugendamt Düsseldorf
23/04/2018 • 27/04/2018
Joke Verreth
Jugendamt Stadt Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf / Germany
Refugee children, children with an immigration
background and children from lowincome
families, that’s the target group of the
mobile school in Düsseldorf.
The team takes the mobile school to the
Refugee House at the Bruchstraße twice a
week, where all these children and their
families live together in apartment blocks.
Before, there was a noticeable fear of contact
between the different families, deriving from
stereotypes or xenophobia. Thanks to the
continuous work with the mobile school, however,
there have been many significant positive
changes in the social behaviour of all the residents
and in their relationship with each other.
The mobile school helped the families at the
Bruchstraße form a community.
What makes the work with this target group
challenging are the strict asylum regulations
and tense bureaucratic situations that keep
families in a constant state of uncertainty and
make it hard for children to cope with their
situation. They often find comfort and stress
relief at the mobile school, which makes the
outreach activities extremely important.
the follow-up training to their needs. The training
came at a perfect time, because new team
members just joined the team and are now completely
up to date.
After the introduction workshop and the workshop
on the self-esteem model, which lies at the
basis of the Mobile School methodology, a lot of
time was spent on increasing the optimal use
of the educational materials. The team came up
with a way to use panels they hardly ever used
before and to adapt them to their target group,
they played and invented new creative games
with the panels, and developed their own games
during the workshop on creativity. They are now
planning on increasing their mobile school
activities. They want to do an additional street
session per week in a new sector. They will prospect
different locations to find the right spot
where they can have the most impact with their
mobile school.
IMPACT
8 people trained: 2 staff, 6 paid parttime volunteers
Future action plan drawn up to increase impact
More creative mobile school sessions
Close-knit & extra motivated street work team
Management informed about StreetwiZe • Mobile School
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The team currently working with the mobile
school never took part in a Mobile School training,
since they started after the implementation
training in 2009, which is why we tailored
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Expedition Board and investors
27/04/2018 • 01/05/2018
Wim Depickere
Arnoud Raskin
Board & investors
Iasi / Romania
For the very first time in the history of
StreetwiZe • Mobile School, our board members
visited a partner project all together, to
work with a mobile school. They were joined
by three of our main investors, bringing the
team to 13 participants. As this is a perfect
group to experience a StreetwiZe leadership
expedition, we decided to set up this programme.
The main goal was to offer a first-hand
impact experience to the decision makers and
investors in our social enterprise. A leadership
expedition co-facilitated by our partner pro-ject
Save The Children in Iasi was the perfect set-up
as it combines the Mobile School and StreetwiZe
side of the organisation.
The participants flew in from Brussels, Amsterdam,
London and Manchester. The team
arrived with eagerness, curiosity and good
vibes ready to experience some very intensive
days. After updating them on the financial and
social impact results, the educators of Save The
Children took us to their centre. They gave an
update on the set-up and strategy of their project
and explained how mobile school has been
embedded as a core element of that strategy
since 2006.
where people try to survive in improvised housing
illegally built on occupied land. Houses lack
water, electricity, decent insulation and proper
heating systems. Many children living in Dallas
participate regularly at the mobile school.
‘Finally’ was an often heard word. As some of the
board members have been engaged more than
20 years in the organisation. Seeing the magic
of the mobile school in action on the streets for
the first time was certainly a special moment for
them. And in the following days they got even
more street experiences and opportunities to
connect with our target audience.
Organising this trip resulted in an even better
understanding and alignment on the mission,
vision and strategy of our social enterprise. It will
certainly help the board members and investors
to play their role in a highly effective way.
We know for sure that all of them left Iasi with
charged batteries and a lot of engagement to
pick up that role in the next coming years. Our
board members are all volunteers and financed
this trip themselves.
IMPACT
First-hand impact experience for our decision makers
Financial contribution to Save The Children Iasi
Personal connection between board and investors
And then it was time to hit the streets. We went
to what locals call ‘the Dallas area’. A name
86 given with a lot of sarcasm as it’s a slum area
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CEGEKA • ownership in practice
01/05/2018 • 31/10/2018
Hans Lamberts
Bart Vanbellinghen
Arnoud Raskin
CEGEKA
Leuven / Belgium
CEGEKA recently defined a new culture and
new values, and called upon StreetwiZe to help
make one of the defined values tangible: ownership.
After a keynote by Arnoud, employees in
Veenendaal (NL), Leuven and Hasselt had the
opportunity to subscribe for open StreetwiZe
sessions on either Positive Focus or Storytelling.
Both sessions aim to help put them to ownership
into practice, by either (in the Positive
Focus workshop:) reflecting on the possible
impact they can have on a current CEGE-
KA-challenge, or (in the Storytelling workshop)
helping them to write and bring a powerful
story, related to a change they would like to see
within the organisation.
This programme will be prolonged in 2019,
when other StreetwiZe Skills and Techniques
will be scheduled in the open training catalogue.
IMPACT
Fostering ownership through positive focus
Fostering ownership through impactful communication
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streetsmart • Transnational Meeting poland
14/05/2018 • 16/05/2018
Rob Sweldens
Wim Depickere
Lies De Vocht
Erasmus+ KA2
Bytom / Poland
The final transnational project meeting within
the Erasmus+ Programme took place in
Bytom, Poland, together with our partners from
Greece (ARSIS: Alberto Perez and PRAKSIS:
Eirini Karanikola) and hosted by CME GPU-
UNO (Robert Cieslar). The main idea of this
meeting was to present the adapted prototype,
get feedback on the latest testings and prepare
the multiplier event and dissemination of the
mobile application.
We started the transnational project meeting
with an update on the finished research report
and with a briefing on the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR). As this regulation has
a big impact on data processing, we had to be
aware of all the data we can and cannot keep
within our mobile application.
The second day we totally focused on the application,
StreetSmart. We showed the first
version available on mobile phones and went
through several testing scenarios. This way we
could make a list of the bugs and errors. In the
afternoon we had the opportunity to do a street
intervention with the mobile school and test
StreetSmart. As it was raining, there weren’t
that many children, but still we were able to
put in the attendance of the children, how they
were feeling and if there were any special skills
they were showing.
On the final day, we talked about the organisation
of the multiplier events. These events are
also part of the Erasmus+ Programme. The idea
is to disseminate the products you’ve created
within the programme. Within our project, we
will organise three multiplier events on 28 June
2018: one in Belgium, one in Greece and one in
Poland.
In the afternoon, the team went back to the
streets. This time we went to another district
and tested StreetSmart for the second time. The
volunteers of CME GPU-UNO who joined us,
got a quick explanation on the app. After the
session, we noticed that it was really easy for them
to register the necessary data and that it went
really quickly. This was a really nice result to see,
as we got a better idea of the user-friendliness of
the application.
IMPACT
Finished research report on case management
Update on GDPR within youth- and street work
Two testings of mobile application on the street
Preparation of multiplier event
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Exploration tanzania • Tamasha Vijana
14/05/2018 • 18/05/2018
Bram Van de Putte
Tamasha Vijana
Dar Es Salaam / Tanzania
Tamasha Vijana learned about the Mobile
School methodology through Fikiri Elias, a former
mobile school street worker from Tanzaniaa
who co-facilitated two expeditions in Tanzania
and Kenya in the past. TAMASHA was co-founded
in 2006 by three close friends all working
with young people. The aim of the organisation
is to secure a rightful space for young people
so they can actively contribute to the development
of their societies using participatory
and appreciative approaches. The organisation
mainly works in Tandale, a neighbourhood
in the Tanzanian capital of Dar Es Salaam.
Tamasha wants to interact and partner with
Mobile School to strengthen their VUKENI
(‘Step Up’) project, aimed at supporting
children from poor families living in a vulnerable
environment, to be able to get
education, develop their talents and use them
to support their learning and personal advancement.
In order to maximise their impact,
they partner with a local organisation called
Faraja.
Our Master Trainer Bram Van de Putte conducted
Enlarged network in Tanzania
the exploration training for the team and a
large and diverse group of volunteers in Dar Es
Salaam. The training functioned as an ideal
introduction to street work for the group of
volunteers, who are not yet active as social
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ever, it became clear the organisation is not yet
ready to kick-off a full time mobile school project.
Moreover, the collaboration between Tamasha
and Faraja is not solid enough yet to guarantee
an impactful and long-term mobile school project.
Therefore, there won’t be an implementation
of a mobile school with Tamasha in the coming
year.
The exploration training with Tamasha in Dar Es
Salaam was combined with the prospection of
Mwema Street Children in Karatu, in the Arusha
region of Tanzania.
IMPACT
19 people trained: 3 staff members and 16 volunteers
Qualitative introduction to street work for volunteers
Identification of new street work locations in Tandale
Team expedition 2018 • back to the roots
21/05/2018 • 24/05/2018
StreetwiZe • Mobile School
Connection with the street
ARSIS & PRAKSIS
Thessaloniki / Greece
Every year, StreetwiZe • Mobile School invites
its entire team to connect with its roots and
reason for being; working with street-connected
children and youth at a mobile school, in
collaboration with one of our partner organisations.
On top of connecting with life on the streets,
this expedition is also meant to reinforce the
StreetwiZe • Mobile School team. Connection
within the team and with the partner organisation
is key.
This year we visited two partner organisations,
ARSIS and PRAKSIS, both active in Thessaloniki.
In three days we were in contact with Roma
children from different communities and children
on the move (refugees). We had great,
intensive street sessions and we also prepared
and debriefed on each session with the street
workers. In the meantime, part of the team
also discovered and used the StreetSmart
app StreetwiZe • Mobile School is currently
deve-loping for registering evolution of the
skills and moods of street connected children
and youth.
IMPACT
Connection with street-connected children
Connection with Greek partners
Connection within team
Use of new app
After this third edition, the team expedition
can legitimately be called a tradition, and an
enriching and valuable one at that!
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Exploration tanzania • Mwema Street Children
21/05/2018 • 25/05/2018
Bram Van de Putte
Mwema Street Children
Karatu / Tanzania
In November 2016, Partnership Coordinator
Sander Degeling attended the Breaking the
Cycle conference organised by Juconi and
Railway Children in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. It
was there he met for the first time with Elibariki
Mollel, project coordinator of Mwema Street
Children, an organisation active in Karatu in
the Arusha region of Tanzania. One year later,
Mwema decided to launch an application to
become a Mobile School partner.
In Karatu, Mwema aims to promote the
rights of street children and of those at risk of
social exclusion and to enable family reintegration.
In the region - that is frequently visited by
tourists thanks to the beautiful national parks
and wildlife - street children move from city to
city to look for opportunities. The majority of
them end up on the streets of big cities like Arusha,
but as it is the second biggest city in the wider
Arusha region, a large part of children spend
at least some time on the streets of Karatu,
especially in the dry season when tourists visit
the area. Besides a center for about 11 boys,
the organisation also invests a lot of resources
in street work. By running a Street Talent
programme and organising so-called Mwema
Days, the organisation actively invests in
building a relation of trust with the youngsters
who are living or working on the streets of
Karatu.
Mwema Day activities and Street Education have
provided a meeting space for children aimed
at developing many values as friendship, care,
respect and self-confidence. These core values
of the organisation are also promoted through
sports, games and opportunities to make their
voices heard by society.Moreover, the focus on
the strengths and talents of young people on the
streets provides a solid foundation to explore a
future collaboration.
The exploration conducted by Master Trainer
Bram Van de Putte turned out to be really promising.
In the coming months, the management
of Mwema and the Mobile School office will be
in close contact to see if an implementation of
a mobile school can still be done in November
or December 2018. Since all the educational
materials are already available in Swahili, a new
Tanzanian mobile school might arrive in Karatu
in the near future.
IMPACT
14 people trained
Core team of Mwema Street Children introduced to mobile school
Identification of new intervention areas for mobile school
Solid foundation for future collaboration with Mwema
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Follow-up greece • Ladies Union of Drama
29/05/2018 • 01/06/2018
Joke Verreth
Ladies Union of Drama
Drama / Greece
Ladies Union of Drama started working with
the mobile school in 2017. The team currently
organises three mobile school interventions
per week: two sessions at Roma camp Filippou
and one session at the Central Garden during
the ‘bazar’, since many Roma families from
cities around Drama travel to the city on that
day to sell different things. Their children work
as well, to be able to contribute to the family
income.
The last couple of months, the team noticed
that refugee children and their families started
working at the market too. The families live in
the refugee camp in Drama, which was set up
this year. The team is considering starting up
outreach sessions with the mobile school there
as well, should they get the permission to do so
from the city council.
Roma camp Filippou is divided into two rivaling
camps. The families of both sides do not
get along and their children are not allowed
to play together. Currently, the team organises
one mobile school session per week at both
sides. After one year, they have noticed some
improvements already, since some children
participate in both sessions. The future goal
is to put the mobile school in the middle of
the camp, to encourage the children to play
together and to encourage their families to
cooperate. Thanks to their continuous work,
the street educators have been able to build up
relationships of confidence with the children and
their families at the two locations. The team has
applied for a van, since this would allow them to
organise an additional street session per week at
a location outside of Drama.
During the follow-up training, we evaluated the
local mobile school project together with the
team and drew up a clear action plan to guarantee
the sustainability of the project and to
increase the impact on the streets. Although
there is a high turnover of volunteers, the core
team of five street educators has remained the
same since the start of the project, which makes
for a stable and durable way of working.
The team also invented games with the panels
they hardly ever use and they created their own
mobile school activities, adapted to the local context
and to their target groups, which received
positive feedback of the children during the testing
on the streets.
Additionally, the team discovered the Street
Business Toolkit panels, developed to address
business topics on the streets.
IMPACT
8 people trained: 5 staff & 3 volunteers
Increased motivation
Concrete action plan to increase social impact
Creativity of street work team enhanced
2 new educational activities, adapted to the local context
Knowledge of Street Business Toolkit
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CEVORA • AN INCOMPANY PARTNERSHIP
01/06/2018 • 31/12/2018
Tessa Goossens
Eric Vanbiervliet
APCB + PC200 companies
Belgium
Besides the open offer partnership with
Cevora, StreetwiZe is also a new learning and
development partner for in-company trainings.
That means that every company that is
affiliated in the APCB or PC200 can integrate
the Street Skill Action Workshops in their own
training programmes. An ideal opportunity to
get to know organisations that aren’t familiar
with the StreetwiZe • Mobile School philosophy
and the perfect low threshold for businesses
wanting to get to know our offer.
One of the In-company collaborations was with
Antwerp based Ferranti Computer Systems
where we guided the leaders of the three internal
partners (MECOMS, FrontForce and Silta)
in several Cooperative Competition reflection
sessions. The outcome of those workshops
were a first step towards a more efficiently
collaborating and positively communicating
culture, consolidating the renewed business
structure.
IMPACT
Reach target group with insufficient budget for StreetwiZe
Reach target group that wants a try-out session
Reach target group that isn’t familiar with StreetwiZe
3 sessions for leaders at Ferranti Computer Systems
3 sessions for leaders at IQVIA
Individual sessions for LMS Sthree Comp and Arcadis
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orange • hackathon & creativity boosts
01/06/2018 • 31/12/2018
Hans Lamberts
Bart Vanbellinghen
Eric Vanbiervliet
Orange
Orange partnered up with StreetwiZe to deliver
a series of creativity & innovation inspired
sessions. Both on an international and on a national
level, Orange launched initiatives to tap
into the innovative brain of its workforce.
To motivate and prepare Belgian colleagues to
participate and send in ideas, several inspirational
lunch sessions were organised.
We introduced the StreetwiZe • Mobile School
story (to inspire entrepreneur- & ownership)
and the Street Skill Proactive Creativity (to provide
concrete creativity techniques).
after the hackathon, additional ‘project coaching’
sessions were facilitated by StreetwiZe to assist
the project teams in further development and
implementation of the selected ideas.
A third initiative was a series of ‘pitching coaching
sessions’ for winners of national & international
innovation contests. In these sessions we
prepared a small group of winners to deliver
convincing public pitches.
Brussels / Belgium
Besides these lunch sessions, StreetwiZe
facilitated a specific ‘Champions Hackathon
programme’. A group of Orange Champions (selected
by their peers as ‘leaders by example’ on
cultural aspects) was invited to a two-day hackathon.
They were asked to reflect on internal
challenges and to come up with bold ideas for
change. The topics were anchored around three
themes: ‘One company’, ‘Decision Dynamics’
and ‘New Ways of Working’.
IMPACT
Injection of entrepreneur- & ownership (Positive Focus)
Support of creative process (Proactive Creativity)
Coaching on public speaking & convincing (Pitching)
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During two days we used the Street Skill Positive
Focus to have participants focus on opportunities
for impact, Proactive Creativity to
help them to develop innovative solutions
and Pitching in order to prepare them for the
presentation of their ideas. During the months
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Volunteer Fun activity • irrland
09/06/2018
Saskia Dieleman
Volunteers and family
Kevelaer / Germany
Every year we organise a fun activity for our
volunteers. This is a moment when we bring
volunteers together and do a fun activity. We
make it a family day, so partners and children
can come along too. This way they also see the
organisation their partner, mother, dad,... volunteers
for.
63 volunteers, family and team boarded the
bus to go to Irrland. Irrland is an amusement
park for the whole family!
It was a very positive day during which connection
moments and fun perfectly complemented
each other. Catching up with a colleague
volunteer on the bus, going down the slides
together with children of the same age, meeting
new people during the barbecue,...
By spending time together, playing, eating, ...
we bring volunteers and their network closer
together. It is also the ideal way to thank our
volunteers for the work they do for our organisation.
On this day they should only enjoy!
IMPACT
(Re) connect with our volunteers
Volunteers and family get to know each other
Volunteers and family get to know our organisation
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A proud B corp since 2016 • Yearly summit
19/06/2018 • 21/06/2018
Kim Swyngedouw
B Corporations
Amsterdam/ The Netherlands
Every year in June, B Lab Europe organises its
yearly Summit. The B Corp Summit is a unique
experience for Certified B Corps from around
the world to connect, share, learn, be inspired
and build a global network.
The theme this year was ‘building a B economy’.
To reach a more inclusive and sustainable
future, the world needs an economy in which
business balances purpose and profit.
This year, the summit was organised in Amsterdam.
During the summit, B Corps from around
the world got inspired through workshops,
inspirational speakers and field visits to some
of the Dutch certified B Corps (Patagonia, Tony
Chocolonely, Plastic Whale, …).
Being a B Corp is not only a value-driven choice;
it makes business sense. With more long-term
focus, B Corps are building better value chains
and take on the continuous challenge to improve
business practices. As a result, B Corps
are demonstrating through a B economy that
impact is leading to scalability, profitability,
and positive change.
IMPACT
Inspiring an international network with our business model
Practice sharing and inspiration
Building the network
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streetsmart • Multiplier Event
28/06/2018
Wim Depickere
Arnoud Raskin
Lies De Vocht
Rob Sweldens
Erasmus+ KA2
Leuven / Belgium
At the end of June, Mobile School presented
its StreetSmart mobile application in a multiplier
event for 21 different organisations (33
people). The event was organised to share results,
demonstrate the app and have a demo.
We kicked off with a welcome speech and a
keynote from Arnoud on why Mobile School
is investing in technology. Wim presented the
StreetSmart application through the research
we did and the results we obtained. We closed
with a demonstration of the StreetSmart application
and some Q&A. We offered all our
guests a sandwich lunch afterwards, which created
a relaxed networking moment.
It was good to see that organisations present
at the multiplier see a solution for their case
management challenges in StreetSmart. A lot
of organisations were enthusiastic to start testing
the application. They will be involved in the
testing phase starting in 2019.
IMPACT
33 people from 21 youth work organisations in Flanders
Demonstration of the StreetSmart app for youth workers
Positioning Mobile School as a valuable partner in Belgium
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argenta • BE StreetwiZe!
29/06/2018 • 13/12/2018
Eric Vanbiervliet
Hans Lamberts
Argenta
Antwerp / Belgium
For quite some times we were thinking of developing
a teambuilding that would keep the
middle between the classic bowling or paintball
moment and a decent workshop. A fun day
with some content.
Eventually, it was for Argenta that we elaborated
the Team Action Day concept. This full day
programme starts from the Street Skill Cooperative
Competition and the conclusion that, as
a team, we can learn a lot from street gangs.
They know very well why they join forces, for
example, they know when to close in. But it
doesn’t keep the individual members from
standing up for themselves.
A very typical thing is also that gang members
are very proud to show that they are part of the
group. They may all wear the same tattoo for
example. This strengthens the bond
between the different gang members on one
hand and makes the gang more attractive to
outsiders on the other.
During the Team Action Day, in line with these
insights, we reflect on the added value of
cooperation within the participating team:
where, how and for whom do we make a difference?
The participants are then asked to deliver
their ‘business card’ as a team by realising a
short introduction movie. We accompany them
in a reflection on how they want to be seen as a
team and how they can visualise that. In the afternoon
they go into the city to create the necessary
footage. After editing the movie, it is time for
the ‘avant-premiere’ and an informal look back.
The many pleasant reactions we received in the
meantime prove that the programme has potential.
Here’s a small selection:
* Unique team event. Well facilitated! Successful
in stimulating team dynamics and getting
to know each other better. I wonder how we can
implement even more Street Skills at Argenta.
(Katleen Boisschot - P & P Manager)
* A very nice, fascinating and instructive day!
Original approach to building a team, unique
experience. (Laurence Van Hissenhoven - P & P
Manager Support)
* Making the movie was a nice experience. I
got to know my colleagues in a completely different
way. Good guidance throughout the day
to achieve a nice result. (Tim Goethals - Product
Marketeer)
And if you wonder why we chose to build this
teambuilding around movies: the idea came
up since our new office in Leuven, where the
programme started, is situated in the former
‘Studio’ cinemas!
IMPACT
Teambuilding 2.0: fun & content
Aligning about the added value of the cooperation
Aligning about the desired perception of the team
Realisation of a strong introduction movie for the team
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new school bolivia • abriendo puertas
16/07/2018 • 22/07/2018
Toña Pineda
Jessika Martinez
Fundación Abriendo Puertas
Paz y Bien
Cochabamba / Bolivia
After a successful exploration in March 2018,
we decided to transfer the mobile school from
former Mobile School partner Yo Voy a Ti to
Fundación Abriendo Puertas Paz y Bien in
Cochabamba, with the support of Provincie
Vlaams-Brabant. The local team transported
the mobile school to their office and repaired it
before the implementation training.
Local trainers Toña Pineda and Jessika
Martinez introduced the street educators to the
self-esteem model and to the Mobile School
educational materials. During the workshop
on creative therapy, the team learnt how they
could use their creativity and their experience
in theater and clownery at the mobile school
as well.
The main target group of the local team are
the children and youngsters working at the cemetery,
to contribute to the family income. By
organising creative outreach sessions, they
want to prevent these youngsters from crossing
the line between working on the streets to living
on the streets.
their families during funerals participated as
well. In addition, the team is actively looking for
new sectors and target groups to increase the impact
of their local mobile school project. Among
other things, they are considering starting up
mobile school sessions in a local youth prison.
After the implementation, the street educators
were eager to run their mobile school project.
Some actions still need to be taken by the local
team to ensure the successful implementation
of their mobile school project, however, such
as clearing the new Mobile School educational
materials from customs (for both them and the
other Bolivian Mobile School partners), making
a clear planning of the sessions, clearly defining
roles and responsibilities of the team members
involved, looking for new volunteers, etc.
We will make sure to follow up on these to do’s
and to support and coach the team as much as
possible.
IMPACT
7 people trained
Knowledge of the Mobile School self-esteem model
Core team acquainted with Mobile School educational materials
Educational package of current Bolivian partners updated
During the street sessions with the mobile
Formerly inactive mobile school reactivated (transfer)
school, the street educators noticed they can
reach out to a bigger target group than previously
thought. The children of flower vendors
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Follow-up peru • Diamanta & Los Cachorros
30/07/2018 • 03/08/2018
Toña Pineda
Diamanta & Los Cachorros
Ayacucho / Peru
The mobile school was first implemented in
Ayacucho in 2004 by the local municipality. In
2006, the municipality signed a contract with
Mama Alice and they worked with the school
until 2009.
In 2015, we were able to transfer the mobile
school to Diamanta (a subsidiary company of
Solid Peru). Their mobile school project has
been atypical since the beginning, since their
target group differs from that of our other
partners. Diamanta runs different projects to
support teen moms, at-risk adolescents and
mothers of low-income families. They use the
mobile school to give workshops on sensitive
topics in three schools they collaborate with,
but also to boost the creativity and self-esteem
of the students on the playground.
During the follow-up training for Diamanta
in 2017, a collaboration was started up with
Los Cachorros, another local organisation, to
increase the impact of the mobile school in
Ayacucho.
making sure we also had the opportunity to cover
other topics more in-depth for the well trained
street educators.
During the coaching session, both teams evaluated
the collaboration between their organisations
positively and they drew up an action plan
to increase the impact of their joint mobile school
project in the future. This action plan was made
more concrete during the workshop on planning
and evaluation. Both teams also explored the
educational materials and learned how to work
with and without the mobile school in a creative
way during the in-depth workshop on creative
therapy.
During the follow-up training, two street sessions
were organised by the team of Los Cachorros to
apply the learnings from the workshops on the
streets.
IMPACT
16 people trained
Close-knit & extra motivated street work teams
Strengthened cooperation between the two local teams
In August 2018, we organised a new follow-up
training, to evaluate the partnership between
both organisations and to support and
Future action plan drawn up to increase impact
More creative mobile school sessions
coach the two local teams of street educators.
Since the majority of the trainees were new
volunteers or staff members, we adapted the
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new school malawi • Chisomo Children’s Club
30/07/2018 • 10/08/2018
Hans Lamberts
Eric Vanbiervliet
Ine Stessens
Chisomo Children’s Club
Lilongwe / Malawi
In March 2017, an exploratory expedition
was organised with the team of Chisomo
Children’s Club in Lilongwe, the capital of
Malawi. The Malawian organisation learned
about the mobile school when former director
Charles Gwengwe visited the mobile school
of Retrak Ethiopia in Hosanna. One and a half
year after the implementation - and after an
elaborate translation process of the educational
materials to the dominant local language
Chichewa - the project was ready to hit the
streets with the first mobile school in Malawi,
the 26th mobile school partner country in the
world!
The implementation in Malawi was a special
one, since it was the first time in Mobile School
history an entire StreetwiZe crew went abroad
to train the local team on how to effectively
use the mobile school on the streets. Hans
Lamberts, Eric Vanbiervliet and Ine Stessens
spent two weeks in the Malawian capital to
work with a team of 8 social workers. Despite
some organisational challenges that weren’t
communicated openly before the start of the
implementation - the organisation is going
through rough times and recently lost some
funding partners and a lot of staff - the team
conducted the implementation schedule as
agreed.
During the visit, multiple intervention areas were
visited and tested. The first sessions showed that
there is a big target group for the mobile school
in the Malawian capital. In the coming weeks, the
team will still need to find some stability (both
staff and locations) to consolidate the weekly
mobile school interventions and to familiarise
themselves with the educational materials.
In general, the implementation with Chisomo
Children’s Club was evaluated as a success,
although it will be crucial in the near future to
support the executive director and the local
team in finding creative solutions to overcome
the challenges with human and financial resources.
In 2019, these challenges will be evaluated
during a one-week follow-up visit with the
team of Chisomo Children’s Club.
IMPACT
First mobile school implemented in Malawi
Team of 7 people trained in working with the mobile school
Set of educational panels developed in Chichewa
Storage system installed in the office of the organisation
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My Family • Triple Up!
01/08/2018 • 31/12/2018
Bart Vanbellinghen
My Family (entire org)
Belgium
My Family (formerly known as/part of Xerius) is
one of the four organisations in Flanders that
are mandated to pay ‘kinderbijslag’ (child or
family allowances). As of 1st of January 2019,
young parents are free to choose their family
allowance fund themselves, whereas in the
past this was linked to the employer. This
means that this service, and all other organisations
managing these allowances, move into
a more open and competitive environment,
where their future success and existence will
depend on the number of families they serve.
The service (the what) itself allows for very little
differentiation (limited by law) so it will really
come down to how this service gets delivered/
perceived by the customers. In preparation
of this evolution, management of My Family
decided to launch an initiative called ‘extremely
client oriented organisation met with
extremely happy employees’, to identify and
implement the necessary organisational
changes. They consciously chose to go for a
bottom-up approach and asked a workgroup
of internal volunteers to come up with ideas
on how My Family should organise itself to
delight customers while raising employee satisfaction
at the same time.
StreetwiZe facilitated this process in close collaboration
with an internal project manager:
• building the workgroup
• getting them in ‘change maker’-modus
• start a creative proces to identify ideas to improve
service and collaboration (more than
80 concrete ideas generated)
• prioritising and further developing the ideas
(and coping with initial feedback)
• public speaking & pitching to colleagues
and Senior Management
Three months after the kick-off session, about 15
developed ideas (some small and tactical, some
more complex and more strategic) were pitched
to Senior Management. All proposals were
accepted and are planned for implementation
throughout 2019.
IMPACT
Self-leadership and change maker attitude
Organisation in co-creation mode
Individual development: 4 Street Skills & Pitching
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train-the-trainer seminar mobile school
30/08/2018 • 31/08/2018
Rob Sweldens
Joke Verreth
Sander Degeling
Training & update
Leuven / Belgium
During the last two days of August we gathered
our current team of European Master Trainers
in the StreetwiZe • Mobile School office: Bram
Van de Putte (street worker Brussels), Robert
Ciéslar (street worker Bytom), Hans Lamberts
(SteetwiZe Partner), Saskia Dieleman (Project
Manager Belgium), Joke Verreth (Partnership
Coordinator), Sander Degeling (Partnership
Coordinator) and Rob Sweldens (Manager Mobile
School).
First, we organised a presentation on the planning
of the upcoming expeditions. The responsibilities
and expectations of the trainers were
also reviewed.
Afterwards, we had a workshop on the
current educational offer of Mobile School.
We explained the objectives of the newly
developed board games, played an interactive
game on the music panels in the city of Leuven
and explained the strategy, changes and developments
in the existing educational offer, the
manual and the online platforms.
Child Protection Policy and on the consequences
for the upcoming expeditions.
We ended the seminar with an exchange about
experiences in Malawi and Tanzania.
All European Master Trainers thought of a brand
new energizer for the Training Seminar. These
energizers were played throughout the workshop,
giving all trainers new inspiration for the
upcoming trainings.
The training seminar was evaluated as very
positive by all participants. We will organise a
next update and exchange meeting in the spring
of 2019 and our goal is to include the international
Master Trainers from Latin America and
Africa in the next training seminar in 2020.
IMPACT
Teambuilding European Master Trainers
Trainers can apply the new educational strategy
Trainers are familiar with the newly developed educational materials
We kicked off the second day of the training
seminar with a workshop on the new
StreetSmart methodology and on the implications
for all Mobile School partner
Trainers are updated about GDPR and Code of Conduct
Trainers are informed about StreetSmart
Trainers can apply new energizers
organisations, followed by an introduction
and feedback meeting on the GDPR, the newly
120 developed Code of Conduct, the upcoming
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StreetSmart • Beta test version
01/09/2018 • 31/12/2018
Kunstmaan - Accenture
Wim Depickere
Arnoud Raskin
Lies De Vocht
Deloitte
Youth / street workers
The Alpha version of the StreetSmart application
was finalised at the end of June 2018 and
showcased during the multiplier event of 28
June.
During summer, the application was handed
over to Kunstmaan, a local Belgian IT-firm
linked to Accenture Belgium. Accenture and
Kunstmaan offered to take on the further
development, resulting in a Beta test version
ready for public launch. The launch is planned
for January 2019.
Meanwhile, we are also preparing the business
model in collaboration with Deloitte Consulting,
to make StreetSmart a sustainable and thrustworthy
partner.
Leuven / Belgium
During this period of development, we took
the opportunity to showcase StreetSmart
nationally and internationally. We had a booth
at Websummit (Lisbon, Portugal), the biggest
IT conference in the world. We offered a workshop
during the 12th Tool Fair for Youth Workers
(Split, Croatia) organised by the European
Commision. We also presented StreetSmart at
the Consortium for Street Children event (London,
UK).
IMPACT
StreetSmart Beta version ready for launch
Broadening our national and international network
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We had interviews with five big organisations
in Flanders. We are actively broadening our
network and promoting StreetSmart, to reach
the full potential of StreetSmart in creating social
impact, strengthening current and future
partners in working with street-connected children.
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City of Bilzen • Team Development Programme
01/09/2018 • 31/12/2018
Eric Vanbiervliet
Sofie Vandenberghe
Dorien De Vidts
Hans Lamberts
City of Bilzen
StreetwiZe • Mobile School goes back to its
roots! In September, StreetwiZe started working
with the city services teams of Bilzen, the hometown
of founder Arnoud Raskin. We created a
tailored team development programme, based
on the Street Skill Cooperative Competition, in
which participants reflect about what makes
them stick together and the battles to be
carried out, as a team, in order to provide
optimal service to citizens.
An exercise that proved to be particularly useful
in the run-up to the new year!
Bilzen / Belgium
IMPACT
Inspiration through the StreetwiZe story
Personal development in discovering the principles of teamwork
Aligning about team objectives and battles
Developing the connection between team members
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Fedasil • working on Group Dynamics
01/09/2018 • 31/01/2019
Eric Vanbiervliet
FedAsil
Belgium
For Fedasil, the Belgian federal agency for the
reception of asylum seekers, we realised a twoday
programme on group dynamics. A collaboration
we are very proud of, given the many
parallels that can be drawn between both
organisations. It was nice to see, for example,
that the approach of the teams taking care of
unaccompanied minors is very similar to ours,
based on self-esteem and the development of
the youngsters towards more autonomy and
self-reliance.
In such a context, the positive orientation and
the opportunity focus of the youth workers, a
strong connection between them, with the
youngsters and with the other teams and a
smooth, but caring collaboration are key, as we
know from our work with the mobile schools.
That is why we started from the Street Skills
Positive Focus and Cooperative Competition
and the Street Technique Connect as building
stones for this tailored training, adding numerous
examples from our own experiences
with Mobile School and StreetwiZe to bring the
different concepts to life. In applying these, as
a next step, to the specific context of the reception
centres, participants defined very specific
action points for the coming months and years.
IMPACT
Inspiration through the StreetwiZe story
Personal development in experiencing group dynamics
Developing personal opportunity focus
Developing personal skills in connecting
Aligning about the goals and battles of the team
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Elia Group • high performing young potentials
16/09/2018 • 21/09/2018
Arnoud Raskin
Hans Lamberts
Elia Group - 50 Hertz
Iasi / Romania
The Elia Group Faraday Program is a 1one-yeardevelopment
programme for high performing
young potentials within Elia (Belgium) and 50
Hertz (Germany).
Active in a sector in the core of the energy transition,
developing crucial skills of future leaders
to successfully cope with, guide and lead
change is key for the Elia Group to be future
proof.
In the Faraday development programme
these leaders are prepared for their future
role. To kick-off of this programme, StreetwiZe
sets the scene with an international expedition
in Iasi. In this international out-of-thecomfort
zone experience, we focus on the importance
of being aware of your own perspective
and the ability to shift it, on the importance
of proactively asking for feedback, on dealing
with ambivalence and on immersion and the
difference between ‘real’ limits and ‘felt’ limits.
The 2018 edition was the 4th time the Elia
Group subscribed for an international StreetwiZe
expedition.
IMPACT
Building the Faraday team
Shifting perspective put into practice
Dealing with ambivalence
Practising immersion
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MS Playground • development of DIY games
20/09/2018
Sander Degeling
Joke Verreth
Rob Sweldens
Lies De Vocht
Educational volunteers
MS Playground
Leuven / Belgium
With the Mobile School Playground, a web
based platform, Mobile School aims to boost
the creativity of street educators worldwide. Until
now, our partners were able to have a look at
the best games developed during StreetwiZe
expeditions or during Mobile School exchange
programmes. For each game, pictures and a
manual are available to give more insight in
the game rules. However, the street educators
of our partners still had to invest a lot of time
in making the games before they were able to
take the new concepts to the streets. In fact,
we’ve noticed it’s a challenge for street educators
to find enough time to reproduce these
new games.
In September 2018, we therefore launched the
second part of the Mobile School Playground:
the Do-it-yourself games. Together with the educational
workgroup and local street work partners
from Europe and Latin America, we were
able to create a total of 17 attractive ready-toprint
game boards. Six of these games were
developed by the educational volunteers
during two project cycles of three meetings in
the year 2018.
The goal of the DIY games is that partner
organisations can easily print the game boards
themselves, so they just need to attach them to
the back side of an existing Mobile School panel.
By doing so, we aim to limit the preparation
time to create new activities. Moreover, we aim
to offer a wide range of extra games that street
educators can easily use on the mobile school.
In order to make the games as accessible as possible,
street educators can find both a written
and a video manual on the platform so they can
quickly understand and play the game with their
target group on the streets.
In 2019, new DIY games will be developed with
the educational volunteers. A first feedback round
will be organised with our street work partners to
see how the street educators evaluate both the
inspiration and the DIY games on the MS Playground.
This feedback will be valuable input for
the development of the state-of-the-art platform
we’re developing in the Erasmus+ project.
IMPACT
17 ready-to-print DIY games on the educational platform
New manuals and video manuals to explain the games
Introduction video on how to use the DIY games
Continuous follow-up on the use of the DIY games by partners
2 project cycles of 3 meetings with the educational volunteers
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Rabobank • Growing a better story together
20/09/2018 • 21/09/2018
Bram Doolaege
Tessa Goossens
Laure Laroche
Sofie Vandenberghe
Rabobank Top 200
The new storyline of Rabobank is ‘Growing a
better world together’. StreetwiZe was invited
to support Rabobank’s global leadership team
in translating that ambition into a compelling
and mobilising story.
As a starter, the ‘StreetwiZe • Mobile School’
story was introduced. Followed by an interactive
and short version of the Storytelling
workshop, we prepared the Rabobank leaders
to bring their own story during the final part of
the workshop.
Terschelling / Netherlands
IMPACT
Inspire leadership with our story of sustainable development
Persuade leaders that storytelling is a skill
Translation of the storytelling framework into action
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Exploration pakistan • Lettuce Bee Kids
01/10/2018 • 05/10/2018
Sander Degeling
Lettuce Bee Kids
Islamabad / Pakistan
Early October, Mobile School travelled to
the Pakistani capital Islamabad for the
very first time to explore a potential partnership
with the organisation Lettuce Bee
Kids. LBK is also a social enterprise, which
uses drawings and designs of children to
create child-friendly products in order to generate
revenue to sustain the social component
of the organisation, so there are quite a few
links between StreetwiZe • Mobile School and
LBK. Moreover, the need for a mobile school is
crystal clear, since Pakistan is one of the countries
with most street-connected children and
one of the lowest literacy levels in the world.
or trash collectors to contribute to the family
income. By implementing a mobile school, LBK
could potentially maximise the number of kids
they are already reaching in these locations.
In order to make the project sustainable, two
meetings were done with Shifa Foundation, a
huge Pakistani disaster relief organisation that is
interested in the Mobile School methodology. In
the coming months, the teams of LBK and Shifa
Foundation will check what a potential collaboration
could look like to make sure the mobile
school can go out to the streets multiple times
per week in the Pakistani capital.
IMPACT
During the one-week exploratory training,
a small team of five members was trained
during the four workshops. Despite the small
number of trainees, the exploration showed
huge potential for a future mobile school project
during the street visits. At this moment,
LBK runs a non-formal school in an isolated
sector of the Pakistani capital. In the area,
there are multiple communities of internally
displaced persons (IDP’s) from different
regions in Pakistan hit by natural disasters
and conflict as well as communities of people
New potential partner country explored
Connection with new social entreprise working with street kids
Team of 5 street workers trained
Established ties with other stakeholders in Pakistan
More expertise on refugees from Afghanistan and Pakistan
from Afghanistan who fled the ongoing conflict
in their home country. Most of the children
living in these areas don’t have access to formal
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Zorgbedrijf Antwerpen • building connection
01/10/2018 • 19/10/2018
Eric Vanbiervliet
Hans Lamberts
Auxiliary Prison Leuven
Ine Stessens
Zorgbedrijf Antwerpen
For Zorgbedrijf Antwerpen (‘Care Company
Antwerp’) we developed a three-day leadership
programme. During the first day the central
theme is personal leadership (ME).
Inspired by the agility and resilience of street
-connected children, we ask ourselves questions
such as ‘Who am I really? ‘ and ‘Where
and how do I want to make a difference?’. We
combine that reflection with the sharpening of
our individual positive focus, a necessary basis
for (self-)leadership and the most beautiful
present for the people surrounding us.
Development Plan, or PDP.
For this residential programme we opted for
a cosy holiday home in a green environment,
where the participants cooked their own meal
on the first night. And you bet that the subject
of conversation ‘leadership’ never left the dinner
table!
Leuven / Belgium
Day 2 is the cherry on the cake of this programme.
We visited the auxiliary prison of
Leuven for a unique experience: the group
meets a number of inmates, with whom they
have to accomplish a mission during the day.
Throughout the day and the activities, the participants
discover the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of
an authentic connection with ‘the other’ (YOU)
and thus interpersonal leadership. An unforgettable
encounter and cooperation and a winwin-win
for al participants, exactly the way we
like it.
IMPACT
Developing personal, interpersonal and team leadership
Experience-based learning on ‘connection’
Writing a Personal Developement Plan based on the Street Skills
Shifting the paradigm on detention and inmates
Inclusion of inmates
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Day 3 starts with ‘WE’; a Cooperative Competition
workshop, as a basis for further development
of team leadership of the participants. In
the afternoon we start to work on a Personal
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Exploration georgia • Caritas Georgia
29/10/2018 • 02/11/2018
Saskia Dieleman
Caritas Georgia
Tbilisi / Georgia
The team of Caritas Georgia runs various programmes
to reach out to all vulnerable and
socially excluded people in Georgia. With the
Children and Youth Protection & Development
programme specifically, the team assists more
than 500 children per year. They work with
children between 5 and 18 years old (children
without parental care, children living and working
on the streets, children living below poverty
level and socially unprotected children)
through different projects: two day care centres
and night shelters, three group homes, an independent
life programme, a youth club and
mobile work with street-connected children.
The main focus during the current outreach activities
the team organises is on identifying the
children on the streets and on evaluating their
living and working conditions. The team offers
some educational activities as well, but they
want to expand their educational offer even
more, to go beyond just registering the children
and their needs. The mobile school would
be a big help in realising that objective. By
implementing our tool, the team could bring
more structure and diversity to their outreach
activities.
be a challenge to make the mobile school project
a priority and to organise four mobile school sessions
per week. They would need to find stable
locations and solve some logistical problems
(such as transportation, parking,...).
If the team meets all the necessary requirements,
however, we believe we could start up
a cooperation with Caritas Georgia in 2020. The
organisation is financially sustainable, there is a
big possible target group for the mobile school,
they have a big network, a storage room,... We
will frequently contact the local team next year
and follow up on the above-mentioned requirements.
Should we decide to collaborate with
Caritas Georgia, we will then start up the translation
process of the educational materials in
2019.
IMPACT
11 team members trained
New potential partner country explored
Possible implementation for 2019
After the exploratory expedition, some to do’s
remain for the local team. Since the team already
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Exploration Kenya • The Joy Divine
05/11/2018 • 09/11/2018
Sander Degeling
The Joy Divine
Nairobi / Kenya
The Kenyan capital Nairobi is infamous for its
high number of street-connected children and
families. Since 2005, Mobile School is active in
the Kenyan capital with a mobile school in the
neighbourhoods of Dandora and Korogocho,
but in 2018 we received another promising
application of an organisation called The Joy
Divine that wants to use a mobile school to
strengthen their Shule Mtaani (‘Street School’)
project in the area of Mlango Kubwa.
During the exploration, a team of 35 volunteers
was trained on the basic principles of
the mobile school. Besides the core team of
the Joy Divine, other street educators from the
organisation Immanuel Afrika also attended
the four workshops.
In the coming months, the Mobile School team
will take a final decision together with the team
of The Joy Divine regarding the implementation
of a mobile school. This new mobile school
would be the 4th one in Kenya, after the launch
of mobile schools in Nairobi, Mombasa and
Kitale. To be continued!
IMPACT
During the week, our active mobile school partner
Kenya Good Neighbors also participated
Big team of 35+ volunteers trained
in the training and transferred their mobile
Reconnect with street educators of active partner KGN
school for one day to the potential intervention
area of Mlango Kubwa to showcase the mobile
New promising contact with educators of Immanuel Afrika
school to the street educators and the guys on
the street. During the session, it was crystal
Potential implementation of a second mobile school in Nairobi
clear that a new mobile school could have a
huge impact in the area, since Mlango Kubwa
is one of the areas with the highest number of
street families in Nairobi, due to its location
close to the Central Business District.
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Exploration poland • Pomocna Dłon
05/11/2018 • 09/11/2018
Robert Cieślar
Joke Verreth
Pomocna Dłoń
Racibórz / Poland
Pomocna Dłoń runs a centre in Racibórz,
Poland, where they offer educational support
and various activities to children & youngsters
and support their families. The organisation
heard about the mobile school during a street
work conference in Krakau.
Before the exploratory expedition, they already
joined the mobile school team of our partner
in Bytom on the streets, to see the mobile
school in action. Currently, three street workers
do outreach sessions in two districts in
Racibórz, organising various mini-projects with
the youngsters, with the focus on organising
their free time in a constructive way. All street
educators are responsible for one small group
of youngsters.
The team of Pomocna Dłoń is very eager to
implement the mobile school during their outreach
activities. They want to be able to reach
the street-connected children and youngsters
they are not reaching with their current programmes.
Although Racibórz is a small town,
the mobile school could have a substantial
impact on the streets, since it would be a big
added value to the outreach work the team is
currently doing and since the project is clearly
a priority for both the management and the
team. Other advantages are financial sustainability
(Pomocna Dłoń is mostly funded by the
local government) and a good local network.
Over the years, the team established a good collaboration
with the local police force and with
local schools. Since we can only implement four
mobile schools per year and the scope of the
target group in Racibórz would be significantly
smaller than that of other prospected organisations
this year, it is highly likely we will not be
able to send a new mobile school to the team of
Pomocna Dłoń. There is, however, a possibility of
transferring the mobile school of partner GPAS
in Warsaw. Their mobile school project has been
put on hold for over a year and has not been a
priority for the organisation in years, due to financial
difficulties. We contacted our partner to
further explore this option.
Since the team of Pomocna Dłoń does not speak
English, we decided to give all workshops in Polish.
Robert Cieślar, the coordinator of the mobile
school project in Bytom and one of our regional
Mobile School trainers, took the lead. After a
positive evaluation, we decided to include him
in our trainer network as a Master Trainer for (Polish)
exploratory expeditions.
IMPACT
9 team members trained
Possibility of transferring a currently inactive mobile school
Master Trainer trained for (Polish) exploratory expeditions
Polish network strengthened
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new school tanzania • Mwema Street Children
12/11/2018 • 23/11/2018
Sander Degeling
Janet Otieno
Mwema Street Children
Karatu / Tanzania
Mobile school no°52 is in good hands! In
November, Master Trainers Sander Degeling
and Janet Otieno - coordinator of the mobile
school of Glad’s House in Mombasa, Kenya
- travelled to the city of Karatu in northern
Tanzania to conduct two weeks of implementation
workshops and street work to the team
of Mwema Street Children. After a successful
exploration earlier this year, the project was
eager to start their interventions on the streets
with the mobile school. Since all the materials
were already translated to Swahili and we
already have active mobile schools in Tanzania,
it didn’t take a long time to get everything
ready for the streets of Karatu.
The town of Karatu is often called ‘Safari Junction’
because of its strategic location close to the
Serengeti and Ngorongoro, two of the major
national parks that attract a high number of
tourists. The tourism industry also brings a lot
of opportunities to the streets of Karatu, where
one can find a high number of street-connected
children in high season. The majority of these
kids come from the poor rural areas surrounding
the city and end up on the streets of Karatu
to look for better opportunities.
the children with their families. From now on,
the mobile school will help the outreach team
to build positive connections with the children
living and working on the streets.
IMPACT
Mobile School no°52 successfully implemented
Team of 12 street educators trained
First four street sessions conducted in Karatu
Proper storage system in place for the outreach team
Since 2006, Mwema Street Children works
with these children, offering them a safe haven
144 to play and looking for opportunities to reunite
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Follow-Up india • EkTara
19/11/2018 • 23/11/2018
Joke Verreth
EkTara
Kolkata / India
EkTara is an Indian NGO, specialised in offering
formal and non-formal education to children
and youngsters from urban slums.
They applied for a mobile school to be able to
reach out to all the children that are not able to
come to their centre. After a successful exploration
in May 2016, we started up a collaboration
in June 2017 and implemented the first
Indian mobile school in Kolkata. In November
2018, we organised a follow-up visit to discuss
the local challenges after 1,5 years of working
with the mobile school and to offer tailor-made
coaching sessions.
During the self-evaluation, the team indicated
they wanted to make better use of all Mobile
School educational materials and train their
creativity, so that was the main focus during
the follow-up expedition. The street educators
invented many new activities with and without
the Mobile School panels they can implement
during their future outreach activities.
trying to get permission to work in more sectors
(such as railway stations), so they can increase
their outreach work activities in the future. After
the follow-up training, the team was reenergised
and had renewed motivation for the work with
the mobile school.
IMPACT
7 street educators trained
Self-evaluation of the project by the local team
Reenergised & motivated team
The team also made a new planning, allowing
for enough time for a qualitative preparation
and evaluation of all mobile school sessions.
2 new creative activities, adapted to the local context
Currently, the team organises two to three
outreach sessions per week in Darapara and
146 Mazdurpara, two local slums. They are now
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Exploration india • The Child Trust
26/11/2018 • 30/11/2018
Joke Verreth
The Child Trust
New Delhi / India
The Child Trust was founded in 2005. The
organisation’s main objective is to ensure the
right to food and a qualitative education for all
children. They are very active in lobbying and
advocacy. In addition, they sometimes organise
educational activities in two communities,
to reach out to the children and youngsters of
slum areas not going to school, with the goal to
eventually mainstream them.
The organisation recently started working with
refugees as well. They offer classes to refugee
children and skill training to refugee mothers,
so they can generate their own income.
The Child Trust applied for a mobile school to be
able to reach out to a new target group: the children
of migrant farmers and migrant construction
workers, since currently no other local organisations
are reaching out to them. Although
the vision of The Child Trust on outreach work
and on self-sustainable practises is compatible
to ours and there is clearly a target group for
the mobile school in New Delhi, it became clear
during the exploratory expedition that a partnership
will not be possible in the near future.
for most of the projects they are currently running.
Due to different reaons, only four people took
part in all exploratory workshops. Despite of
this low number of participants, we believe the
exploratory expedition has had a big impact on
the local organisation. Especially the project management
workshop was very useful. The team
indicated they will use our project management
framework to bring more structure in their running
projects.
IMPACT
4 team members trained
Project management: more structure for running projects
Inspiration for creative educational activities increased
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The organisation does not have enough human
and economical resources to start up new
projects at this time. There are some paid staff
members, but they strongly rely on volunteers
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Online Content Sharing Platform • Start-up
27/11/2018 • 29/11/2018
Rob Sweldens
Arnoud Raskin
Lies De Vocht
Sander Degeling
Hans Dreesen
Erasmus+ KA2
Leuven / Belgium
Within our digital project strategy, we don’t only
have the aim to improve the follow-up activities
of street educators (see StreetSmart mobile
application), but also to improve the preparation
of outreach sessions. With this idea
in mind, we applied for a new Erasmus+
programme through which we can cooperate
with two Mobile School partners: Ladies
Union of Drama (Greece) and Salvati Copiii
(Romania).
To improve the preparations of outreach
sessions, we decided to develop an online
content sharing platform for non-formal education.
Within this tool we want to share educational
content to use on the streets or within
youth work. This content can be ours, but can
also be uploaded by street educators or youth
workers themselves, using a standardised
wizard.
inspiring to have street educators with us, as they
bring other experience to the table. The coming
months, we will start looking for a developer to
create this online content sharing platform and
follow-up with our partners. More news in 2019!
IMPACT
Improve preparation of outreach sessions for street educators
The first transnational project meeting was
organised to get to know the involved partners:
Close cooperation with 2 Mobile School partners
User requirements for the platform defined
Vicky Konstantinidou, project manager
from Ladies Union of Drama and Ady Craciun,
coordinator of the local mobile school project
from Salvati Copiii. We talked about the project,
did some workshops on defining user
requirements, evaluated different platforms
which can serve as inspiration and tested a prototype
150 of a wizard to input games. It was really
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#DuwMee • music for life campaign
22/12/2018
Saskia Dieleman
Robin Verhaeren (intern)
Many volunteers
SWZ • MS team
Music for Life Campaign
Wachtebeke / Belgium
On 22 December 2018, the StreetwiZe • Mobile
School volunteers organised a fantastic
sponsored walk: #DuwMee.
For the sixth year in a row, friends, family and
followers of our organisation came together to
walk and raise funds for Mobile School. It has
become a tradition to mobilise everyone in
the context of Music For Life to participate in
the ‘hottest’ walk of the year. #Duwmee2018
was (yet again) a very successful edition!
People could choose between two walks;
one starting from Brussels (70 km) and one
from Sint-Niklaas (30 km). No less than 850
people walked to Wachtebeke. Along the way
they were kept warm by the surprise animations,
the unique atmosphere, hot soup and
heart-warming chats with the other walkers.
Music For Life is organised by Studio Brussel,
a Flemish radio station. Studio Brussel encourages
people and organisations to raise funds
for a charity of their choice. This year more than
12,000 actions were set up for 1,986 different
charities. The week before Christmas, Studio
Brussel broadcasted live radio from the Provincial
Domain Puyenbroeck in Wachtebeke,
where they welcomed people who had participated
in a fundraising activity, in a festival-like
atmosphere.
The #DuwMee climax was to end up on the Studio
Brussel DJ’s’ podium and announce live on
the radio how much money the Mobile School
volunteers raised with this sponsored walk .
On December 22nd at 7PM we all arrived in Puyenbroeck
and to everybody’s surprise, the volunteers
announced €51,500!
A phenomenal amount that every walker and
their network have contributed to. The euphoria
was great but even greater was the confidence
that the money will be invested in a good way, to
support existing Mobile School projects and to
start up new projects.
#DuwMee is an important action for Mobile
School. During the campaign, we are actively
in the picture, we bring our network together
and we get the financial support and the trust
to enable us to continue working on empowering
street-connected children and street workers
worldwide.
IMPACT
850 participants walked together, strengthening our network
€51.500 raised for Mobile School
Live radio moment
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STREETWIZE CLIENTS 2018
These clients bought workshops, experience-based programmes, inspirational talks or other services at StreetwiZe:
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MOBILE SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS 2018 OUR ACTIVE PARTNERS IN 2018*
Kenya Good Neighbors (Kenya, Nairobi) • since 2005
Childhope (Philippines, Manila) • since 2006
Meninos de Mozambique (Mozambique, Maputo) • since 2008
Virlanie Foundation Inc. (Philippines, Manila) • since 2006
Kivuko / Railway Children (Tanzania, Mwanza) • since 2011
LEEDO (Bangladesh, Dhaka) • since 2015
Retrak (Ethiopia, Hosanna) • since 2012
EkTara (India, Kolkata) • since 2017
Yenege Tesfa (Ethiopia, Gondar) • since 2012
Yenege Tesfa (Ethiopia, Debark) • since 2016
Glad’s House (Kenya, Mombasa) • since 2016
COMPA Teatro Trono (Bolivia, El Alto) • since 2004
Child Rescue Kenya (Kenya, Kitale) • since 2018
IPTK (Boliva, Sucre) • since 2005
Chisomo Children’s Club (Malawi, Lilongwe) • since 2018
Comfacauca (Colombia, Popayán) • since 2005
Mwema Children Centre (Tanzania, Karatu) • since 2018
Fundación Comunitaria Montebello (Colombia, Cali) • since 2005
Diamanta (Peru, Ayacucho) • since 2006
COMPA Teatro Trono (Bolivia, Cochabamba) • since 2007
Save the Children (Romania, Iasi) • since 2006
Las Hormiguitas (Nicaragua, Matagalpa) • since 2008
GPAS (Poland, Warsaw) • since 2006
Fe y Alegría (Ecuador, Quito) • since 2009
Fundacja Ukryte Skrzydla (Poland, Krakau) • since 2008
Fe y Alegría (Ecuador, Ibarra) • since 2011
Jugendamt Stadt Düsseldorf (Germany, Düsseldorf) • since 2009
ANNF / Proyecto Las Chavaladas (Nicaragua, León) • since 2012
ARSIS (Greece, Thessaloniki) • since 2009
Alimentos para la Vida (Mexico, Querétaro) • since 2013
PRAKSIS (Greece, Thessaloniki) • since 2009
ANNF / Proyecto Niños del Fortin (Nicaragua, León) • since 2014
ARSIS (Albania, Tirana) • since 2011
Fundación Los Cachorros (Peru, Ayacucho) • since 2016
Center for Mission & Evangelism GPU UNO (Poland, Bytom) • since 2013
Yolia Niñas de la Calle AC (Mexico, Mexico City) • since 2016
ARSIS (Greece, Athens) • since 2015
Generando Vida (Nicaragua, Managua) • since 2017
Asociación Navarra Nuevo Futuro (Spain, Navarra) • since 2015
Fundación Abriendo Puertas Paz y Bien (Bolivia, Cochabamba) • since 2018
PRAKSIS (Greece, Patras) • since 2016
Ladies Union of Drama (Greece, Drama) • since 2017
*Some partners stopped the mobile school project or are currently not working
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52 MOBILE SCHOOLS IN 26 COUNTRIES
GTW Gliwice (Poland, Gliwice) • since 2018
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THANK YOU...
...to our donors, for their valuable gifts, big
or small, that allow us to support educational
projects working with street-connected
children and youth.
...to the children, schools and organisations
who raised funds for us and in doing so,
inspired a lot of other people.
...to the owners of our building for allowing
us to grow as an organisation.
...to our board of directors and investors
for their advice, trust and support every year.
...to our volunteers for their endless energy,
creativity and trust in the organisation.
...to our StreetwiZe clients for believing in
our approach.
...to our partners PSSB, Limeparts-
Drooghmans and DHL Global Forwarding.
The mobile school is produced at Munsterbilzen
Provincial Secondary School (PSSB).
Mobile School and PSSB have made the
clear and deliberate choice to have the
schools produced by Flemish youth in
a cross-border project that involves aspects
of social global education, technical
education and entrepreneurship.
DHL Global Forwarding has been a partner
and sponsor of Mobile School for more than
15 years. Over the years they have shipped
95% of all mobile schools to the nearest international
airport.
...to the worldwide networks we are very
honoured to be part of.
...to community institution De Zande for
partnering with us in our experience-based
learning programmes.
...to the organisations who give us strategic,
legal and digital transformation support.
...to the Tomorrowland Foundation and
Synergie for the financial support.
De Zande
Gemeenschapsinstelling
Bijzondere Jeugdbijstand
...to the European Union and the province
of Vlaams-Brabant for the subsidies involving
the TECH4GOOD story and the capacity
building of our Bolivian Mobile School
partners.
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With the support of the
Erasmus+ Programme
of the European Union
International Day for Street Children
#WieIsJunieth Campaign
12 April, Ghent
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FINANCIAL KEY FIGURES
€ 44.749
investment subsidies for StreetSmart
€ 220.113
general
€ 898.366
revenue from StreetwiZe clients
€ 1,28 million
€ 27.478
other
€ 559.604
StreetwiZe
€ 1,23 million
€ 14.605
financial
€ 307.351
gifts and campaigns
€ 435.165
Mobile School
INCOME
COSTS
2018: 1 million euro was invested to improve the sustainable development of individuals, organisations and society, starting from the strengths of street-connected children.
€ 1.000.000
€ 900.000
STREETWIZE REVENUE
€ 800.000
€ 700.000
€ 600.000
€ 500.000
€ 400.000
€ 300.000
€ 200.000
Since the launch
of StreetwiZe in 2010,
we realise an average annual
growth of +20%.
StreetwiZe covers 73% of the total cost of the
Mobile School Group cvba-vso.
Our goal is to raise this percentage to 83% in
2021.
€415.631,- of the total cost of StreetwiZe
is directly invested in personal, team and
organisation development programmes for
the clients.
€ 100.000
€ -
201 0 201 1 201 2 201 3 201 4 201 5 201 6 201 7 201 8
In 2018 StreetwiZe transferred 100% of its
profits €173.226,- to Mobile School.
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SOCIAL IMPACT
LET’S GET SOCIAL
Mobile School Group set the objective to double its social impact by 2021 (year of reference is 2014).
By implementing StreetSmart (our digital strategy), we suspect a boost in
our social impact in the coming years.
74.481
educational contacts with
street-connected children
3.672
engaged people in awareness campaigns
FOLLOW US ONLINE
13.718
StreetwiZe participants
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140
This was the last year we organised the Sidewalk Chalk
Campaign in primary schools. The campaign was stopped
to focus on growing the impact of Mobile School and the
start-up of StreetSmart.
4 5
Our impact stagnated in 2018. As 2017 was
a surprisingly good year in terms of social
impact for Mobile School, this already reflected
the growth forecast for 2018.
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100
80
4
11
6
9
5
11
The average quality of contacts of the Mobile
School partners increased with 7% in
comparison with 2014.
This calculation is based on an assessment of the
Mobile School partners (see page 26).
MOBILE SCHOOL
SOCIAL VENTURE
STREETWIZE
BUSINESS VENTURE
LEARNING FROM AND ON THE STREETS
STREETSMART
TECH4GOOD
60
40
86
98
105
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LEGEND
StreetwiZe impact
Mobile School impact
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