Jongeren

“My approach is to be easygoing and make jokes!”

16 Jul 2015

Metta Touray was in South Africa last year, where she helped out at a children’s home for five months. Now she is a first-year history student at the UvA. She also reads to Nour for an hour and a half each week to help her with her language skills.

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

21 Jul 2015

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.

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A glimpse into each other’s world

18 Apr 2016

Students from Hogelant College in Amsterdam North have completed a social internship at the nursing home Het Schouw. A glimpse into each other’s worlds.

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“I want to move forward!”

3 Aug 2016

“To learn more than you learn at school. To speak the language better. Practice.” Majd (23) looks determined in his answer to why he was looking for volunteer work. “In Syria, I was studying to become a gym teacher. But then the war came. Now I have been here for a year and a half. I don’t want to sit at home, not take money for doing nothing.”

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Language buddies Anna and Najib: “Not everything can be learned from a book”

5 Mar 2018

Najib Khalil and Anna Weil are language buddies. They met at a ‘speed dating event’ organized by Vrijwilligers Centrale Amsterdam,..

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9 reasons to volunteer

18 Jul 2018

What does volunteering bring you? We list the most important points.

Boring, stuffy, and dull? Not at all!

14 Mar 2019

Volunteering always seemed a bit dusty, boring, and dull to Eva (29). But in the past few months, she has done 1001 different tasks, and now she thinks: Why didn’t I make time for this earlier? “I even do volunteer work on vacation nowadays!”

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Street Report: What do young people think about volunteering?

17 May 2019

We asked young people: “What is your perception of volunteering?”, “Have you ever done any volunteering?”, if no: “Have you ever considered it?” Here is what they said.

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“My approach is to be easygoing and make jokes!”

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

A glimpse into each other’s world

“I want to move forward!”

Language buddies Anna and Najib: “Not everything can be learned from a book”

9 reasons to volunteer

Boring, stuffy, and dull? Not at all!

Street Report: What do young people think about volunteering?

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