General Information

Our organisation has been acknowledged by the Ministry of the Flemish Community, Department of Culture, as a national immigrants association since 1996. At this moment we have 5 members of staff. Our budgetary resources are the Flemish Government en the Flemish Communal Commission in Brussels. V.O.E.M. is an umbrella organisation and works with a number of thematic working groups. Each group is responsible for the organisation of its own activities. The administration is coordinated by the head-office. Through our activities we built a good network of different kind of partners. There are thematic cores in all Flemish provinces and big cities. They work on subjects as emancipation, participation, ethical questions, supervision of Turkish and Moroccan elderly, dialogue initiatives, educational issues, happenings and sports, women emancipation, supervision of children, cultural activities, theatre and other art forms.