Years ago I was inspired by a documentary on Mobile School. A young student, Arnoud Raskin, left to south America to implement his first mobile school to the children of the street. This is an extendable blackboard on wheels with a lot of educational materials on it. This mobile school works with kids who’s basic learning environment is the street.  A mobile school doesn’t just learn how to write and read, the most important thing is that it increases the self-esteem of these children.

Moved by the simplicity of the idea and  the believe in the project, I became a volunteer for Mobile School in Belgium. After some years I decided to quit my job and to leave to Bolivia to see how Mobile School works in reality. The moments at mobile school are filled with positive vibes, the kids get a lot of positive energy and you can litteraly see their self-esteem growing. I also learned how smart these kids are, even though they never went to school. They always look for the opportunity in difficult situations, they have a  lot of resilience and the solidarity in the street is enormous. These street children are very creative in finding a way to survive and so I became convinced that everybody can learn a lot from these children and youngsters.

Now I am giving workshops in schools about the strength of these children. I explain our project, I tell why it is important to focus on the positive things. Mobile School is an independent organization, we finance ourselves with Streetwize. We give trainings –inspired by the street-  in companies, because we are convinced that every CEO, every entrepreneur can learn a lot from the children of the street.  We are learning companies to become more streetwize, so that they can grow and become stronger.