iCare - English

Heart on your sleeve? Heart for the cause!

iCare, held during the Week of the Volunteer, is organised by University Plus in collaboration with Serve The City. The goal of this effort is to motivate as many students as possible to lend a helping hand to people in need, at home and abroad.

This year, in addition to supporting social organisations and charities in Leuven, iCare is urging the university community to help raise money for kiva.org, an organisation that provides microcredit to small-scale business that do not have access to traditional sources of credit.

How will iCare raise money for this worthy cause? We are asking the university's departments and faculties to place work orders for odd jobs, for which iCare volunteers can sign up to complete. The payment for a job well done will then be donated to kiva.org. To place a work order or to sign up for an odd job, see the links at left. 

This university-wide effort can only succeed if enough odd jobs are posted. Does your faculty, department or office have some handiwork that iCare volunteers can do? Classrooms to paint, courtyards to spruce up, rooms to clear out, equipment to move, libraries to tend, etc.? Then place a work order today!

• Read more about this effort
• Read more about Kiva
• Text in Dutch

News

• On Wednesday, 7 March, Peter Adriaenssens will give a lecture entitled 'Education for solidarity our time'. It will be held in MSI 03.18 will begin at 7:00 pm.
• On March 6, Rector Mark Waer will kick off iCare together with colleagues at the Rectorial Offices. Their chosen odd job? Washing KU Leuven's fleet of service vehicles. iCare? iWash! 
• The Faculty of Farmaceutical Sciences will donate € 400 to iCare in exchange for student help during the faculty's information days.
• LokoCares! You too?

   

   

   

  I want to join!

  • I want to volunteer for Kiva.
  • I want to volunteer for an social organisation or charity in Leuven

  Would you like to make a financial contribution to the iCare effort without placing a work order? Donations can be made (for contributors within KU Leuven) via: VGS:  +++400/0006/75403+++

  For contributors outside KU Leuven, please contact Laura Deferm for additional details. 

   

  Outcome 2011:

  Number of volunteers: 337
  Earned for Haïti: € 5078