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Social and professional integration is not just for street children. Louvain Coopération supports other training initiatives, such as in South Kivu, in the Walungu area, where we have been involved in this field for 6 years. Our aim? To guide young… +

Maud Genevois has just returned from a month in Benin, where she carried out research on community service learning, but also on the notion of partnership. This mission followed an internship she carried out for Louvain Coopération. She looks back… +

A few weeks ago, Morgane Carlier and Marine Dupont, two committed and determined midwives, inaugurated the Centre Périnatal du Brabant Wallon. Located in Genappe, it brings together a multi-disciplinary team to provide holistic care for newborn… +

Young people represent an undeniable asset for the sustainable development of their countries. However, they have very difficult access to employment, and unemployment particularly affects young women, who occupy the most precarious statuses (… +

The ECMS is education for global citizenship and solidarity, one of the departments of Louvain Coopération. But what does this mean in practical terms? The ECMS raises students' awareness of relationships of domination, discrimination as well as … +

Yonas and Corentin, two former UCLouvain students with a passion for cycling, have decided to embark on a rather crazy project: to reach Malaysia by the strength of their calves. To give this project a real meaning, they will be sponsoring their… +

UCLouvain and its NGO, Louvain Coopération, are celebrating this year the tenth anniversary of the Étudiant Solidaire programme. Launched at the start of the 2013 academic year, it invites UCLouvain students to become players in sustainable and… +

Have you ever heard of the "missing middle" in the agricultural finance sector? These are investment loans (duration of 5 to 7 years) for amounts of between €50,000 and €1 million, which are particularly difficult to obtain for farmers, small… +

In collaboration with le théâtre Le Public, Louvain Coopération offers a cultural and solidarity evening. Between 5 and 24 September 2023, come and see the play "Traces, Discours aux nations africaines" by Felwine Sarr, Senegalese economist,… +

In May this year, torrential rain caused very serious flooding and landslides, sweeping away entire villages in South Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo). More than 400 people died and thousands more lost their homes, fields and animals.... Louvain… +

The major solidarity action organised by UCLouvain and its NGO, Louvain Coopération, is now over. Many of you supported our project to improve the income of families whose survival depends on fishing and to fight climate change by reforesting… +

As the academic year draws to a close, we share with you some of the results and successes achieved on the ground by our teams and partners in 2022. During this period, the successful launch of our new 2022-2026 development programme has been at… +