Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School
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<strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong> Café<br />
15/02/<strong>2018</strong><br />
<strong>StreetwiZe</strong> <strong>•</strong> <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Volunteers in Belgium<br />
Leuven / Belgium<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong> Café is the perfect informal way<br />
to bring the team and our volunteers together.<br />
We transform the <strong>StreetwiZe</strong> <strong>•</strong> <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
office into a pub. A cosy place where you come<br />
and go as you please. Where volunteers can<br />
chat and catch up with each other or with the<br />
team.<br />
There are different tables, each with its own<br />
theme, and you can go and join your preferred<br />
table/theme. As a volunteer, you can guide<br />
the conversation by asking specific questions<br />
about things you’d like to know. What would<br />
you like to know about, for example, the new<br />
<strong>StreetwiZe</strong> colleagues, the challenges our<br />
digital story comes with or what about the next<br />
campaign?<br />
Conversations are informal like they are in any<br />
pub: spontaneous and authentic.<br />
For our organisation it is of utmost importance<br />
not to spread all information to our volunteers<br />
by means of presentations. When looking for<br />
a creative way to spread information, we came<br />
up with the idea of the <strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong> Café. As<br />
a visitor in the Café you can decide what you’ll<br />
learn and what you’d like to know more about.<br />
Every Café comes with a wide variety of tables<br />
with different themes. There are, however, always<br />
tables available for volunteers to talk about<br />
specific street contexts. Experience taught us a<br />
lot of volunteers feel the need to get in touch<br />
with the street context and our target audience.<br />
This doesn’t only help them in their work<br />
as a volunteer, but they also feel involved. Volunteers<br />
have to know why and for whom they<br />
engage themselves. Evenings like the <strong>Mobile</strong><br />
<strong>School</strong> café contribute to a good understanding<br />
between volunteers and the organisation.<br />
‘<strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong> Café for me means looking<br />
through the eyes of street workers (trainers) and<br />
meet the kids through them. It gives an energy<br />
boost and I always go home happily knowing<br />
<strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong> really makes a difference for many<br />
street children all over the world.’ <strong>•</strong> Rita Cortvrindt,<br />
volunteer<br />
‘<strong>Mobile</strong> <strong>School</strong> Café is a synonym for a nice<br />
relaxing evening, full of updates, nice chats, tasty<br />
snacks with the best volunteer team ever.’ <strong>•</strong> Lore<br />
De Muynck, volunteer<br />
IMPACT<br />
Connection between volunteers and team<br />
Sharing new information<br />
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