To be mentor at DUO is a unique journey: rich and also challenging. It keeps you intellectually sharp, curious and emotionally alive. You can contribute to have a direct impact by closing bridges among generations and cultures. Your impact results in a more open and solidary society with concrete acts.
You help to develop full potential and talent of young people. For your mentee, a special relationship which enhances self-confidence, positivism and smiling faces. For the mentor, each new Duo is a new journey, a blanco page, which requires a large number of qualities, sometimes to be developed, such as empathy, curiosity, listening skills, rigor, patience, adaptability, convictions, trust, faith in people, …
DUO is a great meeting place to meet very diverse people, sharing some common values. You, as an individual and mentor, can make the difference by taking action and impacting positively one young person and his/her surroundings in Belgium. Going for my 8th Duo, still with the same enthusiasm but much richer of so many new encounters…