Exchange Program as an Au Pair

Belgium

Belgium is situated at the heart of Western Europe and counts more or less 10 million inhabitants. The capital of Belgium is Brussels.

The total surface of Belgium amounts to 30.528 km2. Although Belgium is a rather small country, it has a lot of beautiful cities and wonderful green nature.

In Belgium the main languages are French and Dutch, besides English, Spanish and German that are also common languages.The neighbor countries of Belgium are the Netherlands, Germany, Grand-Duchy-of-Luxembourg and France. In the east the borderline is the North Sea.

The currency is the euro as in the other EU member States. Belgium has a moderated climate characterized by cool and humid summers and rather mild and rainy winters.

Conditions

You are between 18 and 26 years old and you have:

• attended school until at least the age of 17,
• at least a good knowledge of English, French, Dutch or German,
• some experience in childcare,
• a good health to be able to take care of children, and
• you adore children and you will give them the best of you.

A good sense of responsibility and a sound attitude are of course important characteristics for an au pair to make the integration in the host family successful.

How do I become an au pair?

We will ask you to complete some application forms so we can present you in an efficient way to candidate host families looking for a qualified au pair.

Then we will start looking for a host family where you will be able to feel at home. When we think we have found the perfect match, you will be able to contact the host family and you will ultimately decide if you wish to become an au pair for this host family

Furthermore we will assist you to collect all required documents to be able to become legally an au pair in Belgium.

Tasks of an au pair

The au pair will in the first place look after the children. The host family may ask the au pair to take care of the following tasks:

• Bring and fetch the children to and from school (or the kindergarten),
• Wash, dress and nurse the children,
• Do some babysitting,
• Help to tidy up the toys and clothes of the children,
• Make the beds of the children,
• Dress and clean the table,
• Tidy up the kitchen after mealtime,
• Do some daily shopping.

Also other small daily housekeeping duties may be asked from the au pair.These duties can never exceed more than 4 hours per day and 20 hours per week.

Furthermore the au pair is entitled to have at least 1 day off per week, 1 complete weekend per month and 1 week per 6 months stay.

Au Pair Benefits

Your Host Family in Belgium provides you with the following:

• 3, 6, 9, or 12 month placement
• Private room and full board
• €450 pocket money per month
• 1 weeks of paid vacation per 6 months
• Health insurance
• Cost of the Au Pair’s language course
• Work permit costs

You also receive training within the first 30 days of arrival. Au Pair activities are scheduled several times per year so that Au Pairs may choose to attend.

ICEVSC

International Cultural Exchange & Volunteer Service Center, located at Kathmandu, Nepal. ICEVSC is registered under the government of Nepal to operate various educational, cultural and vocational activities. Our main work is counseling and assisting those students who want their Higher Education in abroad. ICEVSC has sent number of students in Australia, Canada, USA, Poland, Cyprus etc for their higher study and other programs. We provide various test preparation and language classes who are willing to further their higher study in abroad. Computer and other Skill Development related courses are also available.

Apart from this main activity, we also manage for the internship in various countries. In this age of globalization, every individual would like to gather national and international work experiences so we create platform for such explorer. Au-pair is one of best cultural exchange program which is successfully running around the world. Finding such qualified applicant for the au-pairing is also our main duty. We choose only qualified candidate for the Au-pair. We select those au-pair form their previous education, training, experience and also their physical and mental condition. They are again confirmed by our international recruiter agency in Skype or telephone interview. Only after all these screening process, they can start other procedures such as contract-paper, medical insurance and visa application etc. Some recruiter agency provides them orientation class in their home country before starting an au-pair job in the host family.