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From feeding chickens to chair yoga

From feeding chickens to chair yoga
  • 24 Oct 2025

    • At City Farm Osdorp, people with early-stage dementia have been able to participate in various activities as day care for over a year. This peaceful, healthy, and green environment is perfect for this purpose. Ria and Joke lead these mornings. “We both do it with love and want to be a link for the people.”

    Sing together: “Little moments of happiness”

    Sing together: “Little moments of happiness”
  • 24 Oct 2025

    • After his early retirement, Frank didn’t want to go to the gym. He has now become indispensable as an all-around volunteer at the Woonzorgcentrum Het Schouw. The highlight is singing together on Wednesday afternoons. “I am slowly learning that it is quite nice to combine reason and emotion.”

    “Everything revolves around connection”

    “Everything revolves around connection”
  • 24 Oct 2025

    • Jack, 35 years old, volunteers once a week at Cordaan’s day care center. “I live in a Safehouse myself,” Jack says candidly. “I am a recovering addict. For me, my most important activities are sports, meetings, and volunteer work.”

    “The best decision of my life”

    “The best decision of my life”
  • 24 Oct 2025

    • 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.”

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

    “Applause for your work, you don’t get that in the office”
  • 24 Oct 2025

    • 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.”

    “There is not enough listening”

    “There is not enough listening”
  • 24 Oct 2025

    • Esther has MS, and this disease drastically turned her life upside down. She had to give up her job, but she didn’t sit back and do nothing. She became active in the MS Association and has since become an energetic hub connecting patients, professionals, and advocates.

    A serene tranquility that helps to stay balanced

    A serene tranquility that helps to stay balanced
  • 24 Oct 2025

    • Kimbo van Stralendorff was homeless for only one day in his life, but that was enough to experience how vulnerable you are at that moment. “It taught me that not everything is about money; satisfaction comes from helping others.”

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