Minigrants

ACCB (Amis de la Communauté Catholique de Bonnevoie asbl) and ACCB Sozialequip

This association supports indigent families, the homeless and people with drug addictions. The aim of the project is to improve the level of assistance, because the association is finalising an agreement with the municipality for the use of two new rooms near the parish of Bonnevoie, in Luxembourg City.

The project presented will enable volunteers to better store and preserve goods (refrigerators, freezers, shelves), and provide better assistance (thermos for soups/hot liquids, folding tables to more effectively serve them outdoors).

Harmonie Municipale Esch-sur-Alzette

Each year, Harmonie organises a seminar and training courses in July for its orchestra of young people in a youth hostel in Germany (Prüm). Rehearsals are held for five days. Lessons and coaching are usually provided by their own members, who are also (or were) members of the youth orchestra – in keeping with the motto ‘Young people help young people’. These days promote team spirit and enable young members to grow together while improving their musical and social skills. It is also a good way to introduce new young children and teenagers into the group to promote their interest in music and learn an instrument.

Bistrot Social

“Le Courage” is currently the only social structure in Luxembourg opened 7 days a week, offering a drop-in space from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. with the possibility of getting a hot drink and a sandwich, a snack and a hot soup in the evening. “Le Courage” also offers lockers, a laundry and showers. From 7 p.m., a night room is available upon registration.

In addition to essential hygiene and catering needs, “Le Courage” aims to help beneficiaries more actively begin a process of integration, with the initial needs being housing and employment, because it necessary to have an address in order to get an employment contract and a job is needed to access housing.

The project aims to expand the current infrastructure with:

• the possibility of recharging beneficiaries’ mobile phones (three mini-towers with multisockets and USB sockets);
• the possibility to search for a job/home, with the support of an educator, using five selfservice laptops and a printer to carry out searches.

This project only includes the installation of IT equipment. Once the equipment is installed, the management of the new service will be taken over by Caritas through a review of the tasks of existing staff, including specialist educators.

Solidarités Virton

Among other things, the association distributes light meals for people in need. It collects unsold items from a supermarket. These donations are supplemented with food purchased by the association.

To this end, the project presented concerns the acquisition of a cold room in order to be able to store food.

Coopérative scolaire d’Algrange (France)

The project consists of the creation of an ‘educational garden’ in the kindergarden with the aim of having one day of learning per week in the open air for the whole school. Outdoor education helps build a community and culture, strengthen ties between children and develop positive associations around school and the outside world. This makes it possible to cover areas of education such as ‘exploring the world’: touching, observing, moving, manipulating the surrounding world in which children grow up; “sustainable development”: raising children’s awareness of the environment and nurture a sense of responsibility towards the use of natural resources.

ArcelorMittal’s support will make it possible to acquire the equipment necessary for the project, such as a 4-metre-long sensory trail, shelters for animals (insect hotels, nesting boxes for birds, house for hedgehogs, etc.), materials
for the construction of a composter, a flower garden and the gardening tools needed to maintain it.

Les lauréats des Minigrants 2022 et les gouverneurs d’ArcelorMittal Foundation