What is Community
Sponsorship
Community Sponsorship creates meaningful connections, helping refugees integrate into their new environment with ease.
Sponsors act as informal guides, supporting refugees in finding housing, accessing services, entering the job market, and navigating daily life challenges.
This shared journey fosters mutual understanding, helping both sponsors and newcomers grow through the wins and challenges of integration.
In Belgium, Community Sponsorship involves collaboration between volunteers, sponsors, and organizations like IOM Belgium and Luxembourg. These efforts align with Fedasil’s mission to expand resettlement options, offering refugees a safe and supported transition to independent living. The program integrates diaspora communities to enrich cultural connections and ensure a diverse sponsorship network.
Help refugees find safe housing and introduce them to their new environment.
Assist refugees with essential tasks like obtaining permits and other legal documents, opening bank accounts, registering for schools and medical care, and other daily matters.
Share knowledge and tools that help refugees become self-reliant and confident in their new surroundings.
Why Community Sponsorship Matters
Provides a home: it gives refugees a secure place to rebuild their lives.
Empowers refugees: it fosters self-reliance in a nurturing environment.
Fosters welcoming societies: it brings people together, encouraging mutual understanding.
Shows solidarity: it’s a powerful way to show that kindness knows no borders.
Shifts the narrative: it challenges stereotypes, showing how a warm welcome transforms lives.
Mutual learning experience: Sponsors and refugees grow together, sharing cultures, perspectives, and life lessons that enrich both sides.