Districts

“Applause for your work, you don’t get that in the office”

Charlie (56) cooks dinner for neighbors every other week on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Community Center Olympus. As a Brit in Amsterdam, he discovered that volunteering not only helped him learn the Dutch language but also find his place in the city. “I feel like I really belong here.”

“I always try to build bridges”

Corrine van Huet is a voluntary coordinator at the Voorleesexpress.

onderwijs

“I have learned how to interact with people”

Jamie is 15 years old and a volunteer at the football club ASV De Dijk. He is a coach, referee, maintains the fields, and works in the match room.

Jongeren

“It was truly a victory when my student achieved a higher Cito score”

School’s Cool ensures that they can give children who are starting high school a good start. Irma Vejzovic (21) is one of the volunteer mentors who visits her pupils once a week to help them with their schoolwork.

Jongeren vrijwilligers

“The best decision of my life”

Rob: “I can be myself here, I can do what I enjoy the most, fixing things. When you come, the coffee is ready, sandwiches, snacks, cookies. The warm feeling I have received here is very special.”

“What brings us together is creativity!”

Georgette is in between jobs and meanwhile volunteers to guide people with disabilities in drawing and painting. “You can be a little silly. They enjoy that.”

“When doors are ajar, I like to kick them wide open.”

Bojana Duovski is a mover & shaker at Stichting Studiezalen. In the past one and a half years, thanks in part to her, they have gone from two to no less than twenty-three partnerships with companies. What are her secrets to achieving this? How does she shape this? And what does it yield for both parties?

A bin full of life experience?

Are you interested in volunteering? On September 29th, we are organizing a Volunteer Café for people aged 60 and older where you can get information and meet some volunteer organizations in the city center district.

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