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“I am a participation king”

“I am a participation king”

Godfrey Lado (43) is a volunteer at the Human Library. He allows himself to be read as a ‘human book’ about being a war child, a refugee from South Sudan, or a black man in the Netherlands.

“This makes me happy!”

“This makes me happy!”

Sophie is a volunteer at Het Lichthuis: a place where people with mental health problems can go on weekends when regular care is closed. “I think it’s important to be aware of people around you who are not doing so well. I do that in my own neighborhood as well, and I encourage everyone: approach someone who needs help or, for example, sells a homeless newspaper.”