Hesbaye-Liège Branch

Hesbaye-Liège Branch

The Hes­baye regio­nal branch of the Citi­zen Plat­form for Refu­gee Sup­port ASBL, crea­ted in Octo­ber 2017, now has near­ly 1,600 sup­por­ters and seve­ral hun­dred active mem­bers : host fami­lies, volun­teers in col­lec­tive shel­ters orga­ni­zed in the region or in the Waremme day cen­ter, col­lec­tors, donors, sym­pa­thi­zers, and more.

Soli­da­ri­ty acti­vi­ty in the region has been mar­ked from the very begin­ning by strong civic mobi­li­za­tion and a large num­ber of host fami­lies. The first col­lec­tive shel­ters were orga­ni­zed as ear­ly as the sum­mer of 2018, and since then dozens more have followed.

FAMILY HOUSE HUY

The Fami­ly House in Huy ope­ned in 2020 and ini­tial­ly wel­co­med only women. Since 2024, it has been trans­for­med into a Fami­ly House — the first of its kind — wel­co­ming women with chil­dren. It is mana­ged by an all-women volun­teer team.

Thanks to an agree­ment with the City and the CPAS of Huy, we are also able to wel­come women vic­tims of vio­lence during the first three to four days after lea­ving the place of violence.

The col­lec­tive emer­gen­cy hou­sing acti­vi­ties are car­ried out with the sup­port of the Wal­loon Region.