JRS Belgium
Partner
JRS Belgium is an NGO that accompanies, supports and defends the rights of refugees and other forced migrants, enabling them to take control of their own future. Specifically, JRS Belgium visits people in detention on a weekly basis, offers vulnerable families comprehensive support to prevent detention, promotes real alternatives to detention and raises awareness on these issues through advocacy and collaboration with other organisations. JRS Belgium strives for a warm and supportive society in which detention for migration reasons no longer has a place.
Since September 2020, JRS Belgium has been offering comprehensive home support to families without legal residence with minor children in Belgium through the Plan Together project. Two family counsellors provide legal, social and psychological support. Together with the families, they build a legal and sustainable future perspective — in Belgium, in another European country, or in the country of origin. With Plan Together, JRS Belgium proposes a tested and proven methodology as a dignified alternative to detention — a model that can serve as inspiration for future policy.