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Vrijwilligers
In addition to her four-day-a-week job, Annemarie is a volunteer swim coach. She also assists at the athletics club as a judge and first aider, and organizes youth camps for various associations.
“At the age of 42, I had a stroke. Instead of being a manager in triple gray on the Zuidas, with a good salary, a new house, and a thick BMW, I spent two years in a rehabilitation clinic.”
Visitors from all over the world come to the Van Eesteren Museum in Nieuw West. Linda Ottens-Falkenberg is a volunteer museum guide here. “I welcome them hospitably with coffee and snacks.”
Frank Hemminga is one of the founders of the MOVE foundation. They organize educational boat trips in Amsterdam.
“I give presentations about people with disabilities among other things, and I support clients of the MEE foundation. For me, this definitely brings meaning to life.”

