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Vacation in your own neighborhood

Vacation in your own neighborhood
  • 30 Mar 2026

    • Three days of camping in your own neighborhood, food, games, and fun with your neighbors: that is the Neighborhood Camping. In Amsterdam, at the Sloterplas, volunteer Martin makes sure everything runs smoothly.

    “I am happy to build something together”

    “I am happy to build something together”
  • 12 May 2015

    • Martin ten Brinke started Stadsboerderij Osdorp in 2014, a place in the neighborhood where vegetables are grown, where residents can work on a piece of land, where people can meet each other, and learn about nature.

    “I now know what ‘stoep’ means”

    “I now know what ‘stoep’ means”
  • 25 Feb 2016

    • Juliet has been living in the Netherlands since May 2014 and would like to improve her language skills through volunteering. She meets with Mrs. Van De Voort (91) once a week to go for a walk together. Juliet always refers to Mrs. Van De Voort as “mevrouw.”

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    “I want to move forward!”

    “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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