Verhalen & nieuws

Heartbroken we have to bring you this unreal news. Yesterday July 19th our friend, colleague and volunteer coordinator Saskia Dieleman suddenly passed away.

Big news! We’re absolutely thrilled to announce the Tomorrowland Foundation has decided to collaborate with Mobile School in 2019. The foundation linked to one of world’s largest and most notable music festival supports projects boosting the self-esteem of children through creative expression.

2018 was een druk jaar! In dit jaarverslag belichten we graag enkele van onze realisaties. Onze zakelijke onderneming StreetWize verkocht diensten aan 122 klanten en maakte er allemaal Streetwize-bedrijven van. Onze sociale onderneming Mobile School realiseerde 24 veldbezoeken in 12 landen met meer dan 100 opleidingsdagen en 38 dagen straatcoaching, waarbij 190 straatdocenten betrokken waren. Onze vrijwilligers waren zoals gewoonlijk actief en organiseerden dit jaar twee grote campagnes: de Internationale Dag voor Straatkinderen en #DuwMee. Tot slot was 2018 ook het jaar van de start van onze Tech4Good-onderneming, StreetSmart. Wil je meer weten? Bekijk een selectie van onze projecten in 2018 en kijk wat we vorig jaar hebben gedaan!

Several Mobile School partners across the globe are using their mobile schools to reach out to children and youngsters on the move. The partner organisation working with this target group closest to Belgium is Jugendamt Stadt Düsseldorf. We interviewed Martin Schlupkothen, the coordinator of the local mobile school project.

The past few weeks, Sri Lanka was all over the international news. The horrible terror attacks that struck the island nation on Easter Sunday left the entire world shocked and speechless. Despite schools being shut in the aftermath of the attack, Mobile School decided in close collaboration with our potential partner Child Action Lanka (CAL) to stick to our plan and to conduct a one-week exploration with the organization in Kelaniya, a suburb of the capital Colombo.

Every year we place four to five new mobile schools with local partners. Those mobile schools are produced by teachers and students of the Provincial Secondary School in Bilzen (PSSB). Sustainable materials are used to ensure the longest possible life and to survive the challenging situations on the street. Limeparts - Drooghmans has been sponsoring Mobile School for several years now by supplying the aluminum that is used to build the mobile schools. They also handle the processing of certain parts such as the chalk boards.

In this new Mobile School article series, we would like to briefly present our amazing local partner organisations that take out the mobile school multiple times per week to boost the self-esteem of street-connected youngsters. To start off this new series, we would like to introduce you to our partner... Yenege Tesfa.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the mobile school project in Thessaloniki. Happy birthday, ARSIS and PRAKSIS! For 8 years, our two local partners shared one mobile school to work with different target groups. In 2017, they applied for a second mobile school to increase their impact on the street by reaching out to more street-connected children and youngsters. In July of that same year the implementation training took place and in March 2019, a follow-up training was organised, to coach and reenergise the two local street work teams. What did ARSIS and PRAKSIS achieve after 10 years of working with a mobile school? Time for an interview with the local experts to find out.

De schouders kunnen niet altijd gespannen zijn, het is nodig om af en toe stoom af te blazen, je voet van het pedaal te halen en daarom hebben we een geweldig plan!

DHL Global Forwarding has been a partner and sponsor of Mobile School NPO for more than 15 years. Over the years they have shipped 95% of all mobile schools to the nearest international airport. A very good reason to let Linda Moens (Sales & Marketing Director in Belgium & Luxembourg), Erna Vanremoortel (Customer Relations Team Leader) and Sofie Nieuwling (Marketing & Communication Specialist) give some more information about this special collaboration.

From 25 February till 8 March, a team of Mobile School trainers would normally have been in Haiti for the implementation of a brand new mobile school. The 53rd mobile school arrived in the capital Port-au-Prince a few weeks ago, and the team members of Association Sportive de Truitier (AST)- supported by the Belgian organisation Benefiet Haïti- were eager to finally start up the work with their mobile school on the streets of Carrefour, one of the larger districts in the Haitian capital.

In 2014, she became an active Mobile School volunteer and one year later she became a member of staff, as the coordinator of our Latin American and European partner organisations. Meet Joke Verreth!