Belgium

Flemish Refugee Action offers expert information, training, publications and extensive helpdesks to everyone who, professionally and voluntarily, works with, assists or counsels asylum seekers and refugees. Through our projects we develop innovative working methods for social assistants and governments.

The core of JRS Belgium’s activities is visiting and offering services to foreigners – asylum seekers and irregular migrants – detained in administrative detention centres. JRS Belgium is the only Belgian organisation visiting all five detention centres on a weekly basis.

Email for reception of asylum seekers: accuiel@cire.be (other email addresses for specific services available on their website) CIRE coordinates a network of NGOs providing services to refugees and asylum seekers including over 600 beds, assistance in finding and affording more permanent accommodation, visits to detention centres, French language classes and assistance integrating into Belgian culture,…

The Belgian Refugee Council is a non-profit association that provides advice and assistance to refugees and asylum seekers, and also to their lawyers and NGO’s acting in the field. Its main working areas are legal aid to asylum application, family reunification of beneficiaries of international protection, and aid to asylum seekers in detention.

This hyperlink –w2eu.info – leads to an independent source of information for refugees coming to Europe. w2eu.info might be useful on their journey to and through Europe by giving access to counseling and useful contacts in different European countries.