SCORP
The Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace brings students together who want to build a fairer world. Through a variety of projects and activities, we actively contribute to solidarity and work toward a more just and inclusive society. We encourage students to get actively involved and make a difference for those who need it most.
Let's (D)own It! is committed to helping people with (mental) disabilities. By organizing activities such as a lesson in wheelchair basketball, a quiz night ... we hope to bring students closer to young people with disabilities. Leading up to March 21st, International Down Syndrome Day, we raise money for ‘Down Syndrome Flanders’. We do this by selling socks, the sign of Down syndrome, do(w)nuts and so much more!
Throughout the year we visit ‘Woudlucht’, a school for special education, a few times. There we organise fun activities together with the students such as making smoothies, doing yoga, decorating tote bags ...
Doorbreek de Stilte focuses on deaf and hard hearing people - an often forgotten and isolated group. With our initiative, we want to introduce fellow students to Flemish Sign Language while immersing them in the deaf community and culture. In this way, we aim to increase awareness and understanding. By targeting future doctors and paramedics, we hope to contribute to better communication in healthcare and thus lower the barriers that deafness brings.
Health Without Borders is all about educating the people in a refugee centre about health care and lowering the barrier to doctor visits. Our goal is to inform them about what they can do in acute situations and to introduce them to first aid, CPR and general health in an interactive way. They will also have the opportunity to ask questions during this session.
Human Rights Day is a project with the main goal of sensitizing students about (violations of) human rights. On the one hand we do this by participating in the Amnesty Writing Marathon in the first semester and on the other hand by organizing an (interactive) activity in the second semester.
With Get Oud, our mission is to sensitize young people about the problem of loneliness in the elderly population, to promote interaction between young people and the elderly, and to provoke interest in geriatric care. Therefore, the goal of our project is to combat loneliness in the elderly population, and to highlight geriatrics.
To achieve these goals, we organize card campaigns, where students or children write cards for the elderly during the Christmas and Easter periods. These cards are then distributed by students in residential care centres and at the geriatrics department. We also organize interactive afternoons in residential care centres, where students and elderly people make music, play games, go for walks, or simply have a good chat together. Finally, we organize internships in the geriatrics department so that medical students can discover this specialty and gain insight into what the average day of a geriatrician looks like.
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