Centrum West-D’Broej is recognized by the Flemish government as a youth centre working with vulnerable youth, between 4 and 20 years old, with different social and cultural backgrounds. All the workshops and activities are helping the youth in their participation and emancipation in the society, as they get the possibility to develop different personal, social, cultural or educational talents. 1 volunteer from Russia worked with the kids during 1 year. She helped with the daily workshops we organize like music, circus, multimedia, sports, crea etc. As she has lots of experience with dancing, she was involved and got a main role in the danceworkshops too. During schoolholidays she was involved in our activities, camps and trainings for kids. She was part of the group of our young local volunteers. She worked on a common projects with them, and with the kids. She learned a lot about all the different cultures and methods to work with kids. She collaborated also with other cultural partnerorganisations in the neighbourhood and other youth-organisations in other cities, to prepare a common project for Zinneke Parade 2016. She learned how to communicate in English, Dutch and some words of French. She learned how to work with kids and parents from different cultural, social and economical backgrounds. Discussions about racism, gender, politics, education and other topics are common in our organisation. She was a full teammember and participated on lots of dicsussions and trainings about the field of the youthwork. She was also an exemple for our local youngsters and volunteers, but also youth-workers, to raise the interest in doing exchange-projects and voluntarism abroad.