Stories

Volunteers and the young residents of the Koekelberg reception centre have been hard at work creating some masterpieces in a ceremics workshop. Want to read the story? Click the button below!

As we step into 2024, we can’t help but look back on 2023 and be inspired by all that the Serve the City community achieved in 12 months. It was a year of up and downs, but what truly stands out [...]

Serve the City volunteers were hard at work this summer! Over the summer we increased our weekly meal count to over 5000 meals, to support those in need in Brussels. Click to read all about it [...]

From hundreds of portions of food to hundreds of Christmas presents, you could say that our Christmas period was almost as busy as Santa's at Serve the City! 

From hundreds of portions of food to hundreds of Christmas presents, you could say that our Christmas period was almost as busy as Santa's at Serve the City! 

In our last newsletter on the asylum seeker crisis, we began with this sentence: “Over the last few months, the situation for people seeking asylum in Belgium has become more and more [...]

Volunteering is a powerful tool to transform our cities, and the lives of all those who live in them, together. But volunteer communities don’t just exist, they are created and nurtured. That is [...]

Serve the City has always strived to help people in need. When it became clear that the situation in Ukraine was quickly becoming a humanitarian crisis, we knew that we could not sit by and watch. 

Volunteers at the Samusocial Jourdan Centre for asylum seekers help children with both language learning (French and Dutch) and with homework. Children participate in the activities every [...]

Serve the City has always strived to help people in need. When it became clear that the situation in Ukraine was quickly becoming a humanitarian crisis, we knew that we could not sit by and watch.