26 AT IOB
In the meantime...
Kick off weekend
The beginning of the IOB academic year for the students is always marked by the‘ kick off weekend’. This year’ s edition was again a combination of getting to know each other while at the same time having lots of fun. Of course, just having arrived in Belgium, a tourist visit is also an essential ingredient in the success of the kick off weekend. A guided tour through the city centre of Bruges is a good place to start your discovery of Belgium!
Have you ever seen the movie‘ Pay it forward‘( click on the link to see a little trailer;-)
A real feel good, naïve, tear jerker … The main message is that if everyone would help out only a few people in need, without expecting anything in return,( i. e. paying it forward) eventually the world would be full of people‘ doing good’. At a certain point in time, you yourself would then eventually be surprised by the kindness of a stranger.
Well, in December IOB students were paying it forward …
Each year the University of Antwerp organizes a Christmas market and the proceeds are donated to charity. The university selects two projects. Once again, one of those projects is a project( co-) founded by an IOB alumna, Gemma Piñol. Volley 4 change is a project, seeking to encourage health, gender equity and empowerment through sports in Vanuatu.
The current IOB students – despite being exhausted from exam and assignment deadlines – were so kind to organize a Christmas market‘ booth’ to sell food to support these projects! They sold delicious international food, such as Vietnamese spring rolls, Bangladeshi Biriany, Palestinian home-made hummus wraps and Belgian Christmas Cookies. Thanks!
Paying it forward: IOB students for
Volley4change
Exchange to change January 2017