BRUZZ organizes De Grote Brussel Helpt Spaghettislag on Saturday 27 November. This year, the proceeds of the fundraising campaign will go to the Brussels youth collective Nakama.

With Brussels Helps move BRUZZ organizes a large-scale fundraising campaign every year for a good cause that is active around a metropolitan theme. The action also has goals in the field of awareness-raising and community building.

For the 2021 edition, that charity is the non-profit organization Nakama, an enthusiastic and ambitious youth collective that is committed to children and young people from the most vulnerable neighborhoods of Brussels. Nakama is a Japanese word for comrade’s friend.

“From our own experience, we know that it is not always easy to find a place where you feel at home and where you are encouraged to learn from each other,” says chairman and founder Lyas Mouani. “Although there are many organizations, we see that a lot of young people still fall by the wayside. With Nakama we want to reach these young people.”

Spaghetti Stroke

Nakama runs entirely on volunteers and is looking for means to make the organization more professional, to further diversify its operation and to reach even more young people.

therefore organizes BRUZZ the third edition of ‘De Grote Brussel Helpt Spaghettislag’ on Saturday November 27, ten benefits from Nakama. BRUZZ therefore mobilizes various partners and ordinary Brussels residents to make spaghetti and receive spaghetti eaters.

Although the previous spaghetti battle was canceled due to the corona measures, Brussels Helpt raised more than 57,000 euros in 2020 for the concrete action goal Babytheek Brussels. The Brussels Helpt campaign will officially kick off on October 19. Then the corresponding website is also requested.