Over the last ten years, the number of homeless people in the Netherlands climbed to 40,000. In Amsterdam, De Regenboog Groep helps people living in social poverty with eight community centers for the homeless.
De Vrolijkheid organizes art workshops at asylum-seekerslocations throughout the country, for children and young people to discover their talents, boost their self-confidence and work on the development of their identity.
House of Hope organizes activities for and with local residents in the Rotterdam-Zuid area. They were pleasantly surprised when Queen Máxima honored them with a visit.
The Pauluskerk helps people without a residence permit, it provides support to refugees in Rotterdam. We speak with Dick Couvée and Hanny de Kruijf about motivation, restrictions and hope.
Making sexchatting with children punishable by law is part of a larger plan to modernize laws on morality and sex offenses, the goal of which is to offer more and better protection for victims.
Movisie has taken stock of the problems homeless young people face times of corona. The summary offers solutions for organizations and tips for municipalities.
Regenbooggroep made their own masks, required because of the Corona epidemic, to meet the high demand in community centers.
With the Week for the Forgotten Child (29 January – 4 February 2020) coming up, the organization The Forgotten Child started a petition to create awareness for the constant shuffling around of children in youth care.
Villa Pinedo offers support for all children dealing with the negative consequences of their parents’ divorce and encourages parents to see the proceedings through their children’s eyes from an early stage.
The Sterk Huis Smart Start project entails knowledge and tool development for better social assistance and youth care. Project results are then prepared for scaling up to a national approach.
The Fear Factory shows with an interactive exhibit the process of fear, teaching the audience how they can be manipulated, but also how to respond to it.
Socially safe learning and living environments are the most important preconditions for a proper development of young people and the society around them. REF helps schools to realize these goals.
Food banks are proactively reaching out to those who go hungry. Their aim is to become more accessible and break the taboo, so they can support more people in need of assistance.
The jury praised the organization for guiding prisoners in training asylum dogs, in order to help them create better perspectives for the future, both for the detainee and the dog.
King Willem-Alexander saw how The Time Machine Foundation works with elderly people, healthcare and welfare workers, volunteers and partner organizations to enable people to grow old with dignity in their own way.
Each year, thousands of households in Rotterdam find themselves in a pressing financial emergency situation. The Rotterdam Special Needs Fund provides one-off financial donations in acute emergency situations.
The film ALICIA is about a girl victim to a system that takes children out of their homes but then fails to offer them a better alternative. It resulted in a Manifesto, presented to the government.
Newcomer children start in an introduction class. They learn the Dutch language in one year and progress to regular schools. IMC Weekend School offers a half day of weekend school education every week.
A prisoner training a difficult dog to be a good pet, is also training himself. Dutch Cell Dogs is a program in which people and animals help each other to rediscover a place in society.
Most underage victims of sexual exploitation in the Netherlands don’t report their experiences to the police, according to research of CKM. The campaign ‘Make it Visible’ wants to increase victims’ willingness to report sexual exploitation.
Preventing sexual exploitation of children and young people requires a comprehensive and ambitious program, aimed at achieving systematic change. The Coalition against child sexual exploitation operates such a program.
Our partner Delta Lloyd Foundation changed its name since 1 May 2018 into “Stichting van Schulden naar Kansen” (“From Debt to Opportunities Foundation”).
Poverty as a result of problematic debt is a serious social issue. The Van Schulden Naar Kansen (From Debt to Opportunities, VSNK) project aims to significantly reduce the number of households battling poverty and problematic debt.
About 7,000 underage children are staying at women’s shelters or social shelters. Dutch child welfare charity Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland, in coalition with others advocates for independent case files for children in shelters.
The Netherlands Debate Institute Foundation develops enjoyable debating activities that enable young people to develop the competencies necessary to function in a democracy. The topics for the debates are current social issues.
Due to a multiplicity of individual and social problems, a large group of young people and adults loses connection with society. Streetcornerwork works to improve the situation of these individuals.
People in social shelters often find it difficult to stay active. The Life Goals Foundation gets vulnerable people into action through sport, like with the Dutch Street Cup, a street football competition between cities.
In the Netherlands, access to health care for undocumented migrants is problematic. It is difficult for them to obtain medical care without intermediation. Dokters van de Wereld helps them to deal with the Dutch health system independently.
The Salvation Army helps families with complex and serious problems. In addition to a Family Coach the Salvation Army also provides a Child Coach whose focus is exclusively on the child.
