Ecole de Clerheid

Ecole de Clerheid is a non-profit association recognized as « centre de rencontres et d’hébergement » (youth meetings and accommodation center) by the Brussels-Wallonia Federation. As such, it has an educative mission towards the youth. AIMS Through its activities, for more than 30 years, the educative project of Ecole de Clerheid has set as goals to : - Implement education to wonderment, to peace, to respect of life and what enables life (discover life and what’s around, through respect of others and of the nature), - Prioritize the fulfillment and the welcome of each child, each young person, whoever (s)he is, - Encourage the learning of solidarity and care about others, to help everyone is its personal growth, taking into account its age and personality, - Enable the awakening of critical mind, - Encourage the learning of good use of liberty, - Contribute to awakening of art, search of what’s beautiful, of responsibility, initiative and good mood. Ecole de Clerheid’s missions are : - To welcome each child, young person, adult, et to encourage its fulfillment, whatever its origins, philosophy, religion, age and personality, - To offer a framework and activities that enable young people to develop their sense of citizenship, criticism, responsibility, - To encourage the meeting in between the young people coming to Ecole de Clerheid, as well as between those young people and outside people, - To build projects with the young people that arouse their creativity, openness to others and respect of nature. REGULAR ACTIVITIES All our activities are residential stays (except for the drawing workshop organized every Saturday). We offer : - School trips for 1 to 5 days for preschools, elementary and secondary schools. There are different topics possible, e.g. circus classes, philosophy classes (or philosophy and photography), nature classes (awakening to the silence of the forest) ; - Holiday camps, which welcome children and youngsters from every horizons for 5 to 10 days stays. The camps form the basis of our projects. Each camp is unique. They enable to implement our educational project and encourage meetings and community life. Examples of camps are : circus camp, stars and philosophy camp, (horse-drawn) caravan camp, Robinson camp (where the group builds or renovates the huts from the « Village en Bois », a wooden village made up and built by generations of children), machines, dreams and wonders camp (where the group imagines and creates amazing objects), wooden toys camp, Peter Pan camp, troubadour camp, choir camp, awakening to the silence of the forest camp. - Choir week-ends : 6-7 week-ends during one year, that lead to a final concert, where each child and younster’s skills are hightlight (whether they are singing – alone or in chorus, playing a music instrument,…). The songs are mainly the creation of the youngsters and leaders, supervised by a choirmaster. Here is a video made with one of the choir’s songs, during the « choir camp » 2018, that gathered 100 children and youngsters from the choir as well as 12 from the reception center for asylumseekers of Rendeux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlFtMBjXQiA We also host in our infrastructure independant groups of young people. We stay available to assist them during their stay. TARGET GROUPS Our public is mainly made up of children and teenagers coming from all over Wallonia, Brussels and, to a lesser extent, Flanders or other countries. The camps target children from 4 to 13 y.o. Young people from 14 y.o. on take part as pre-leaders. Most of them took part to the camps as children before and wish to stay involved at Ecole de Clerheid. Between 14 and 18 y.o., they are trained. At 18 y.o., they are considered as activity leaders. Young adults and a few parents take part to the camps as volunteer leaders. The choir targets youngsters from 7 to 16 y.o. Those activities are organized according to the principle of verticality : the groups mix different ages. To our « outdoor c