“It was like being back home for a while, really nice,” Ukrainian Tatjana texted us after Ciconia Consort’s concert last Wednesday night in TivoliVredenburg. Forty refugees listened to the sounds of the string orchestra in works by Boccherini and Ravel, among others. In Ukraine, especially for the slightly older generation,…
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“I was pulled out from under the rubble as a baby by my grandmother,” spoke a woman from the neighbourhood who had come to lunch at Plan Einstein Pahud. She was talking with friends and azc-residents about how you can be lucky and unlucky with where you are born, about…
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We’ve been already quite busy for a while now at Plan Einstein Pahud in Overvecht where there is an open walk-in every weekday in The Living Room. Next Saturday, March 25, there will be an Open Day and everyone can visit and participate in various free workshops and activities between…
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Nothing connects more than playing games, but Plan Einstein Pahud’s Living Room game closet is sadly lacking some games that are in high demand. These include backgammon, chess, checkers and Rummikub. We could also use a shuffleboard. Therefore this call! Do you have these games on hand and no longer…
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Just ‘catching a movie’ is quite normal for many Utrechters. For most refugees staying in Utrecht, it is not. Fortunately, since a few months, they get the chance to see a movie on Tuesday afternoons in the Louis Hartlooper Complex, Slachtstraat Filmtheater or Springhaver. To laugh, shudder, swoon, sometimes shed…
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Sob, sob … On Wednesday, Feb. 22, volunteer Eline Hoogstra’s “nail painting” came to an end. For about a year she made girls and women in the shelter Star Lodge on Biltse Straatweg happy every Wednesday with her enthusiasm and the result: nails in orange, red, purple, blue or black,…
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Plan Einstein Pahud has started! And the Living Room next to the asylum centre is already being put to good use. Here you can see how azc residents prepared a delicious lunch, made possible in part by our new employee Alaa. “I like to make everyone feel good,” she declared…
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What can you do in the face of all the suffering refugees have to carry? When on top of the difficult situation they come from, there is also the pain of a terrible natural disaster in the homeland and the worry for their loved ones who are not with them.
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“It was amazing to meet students Social Work! I want to do this work in the future!” Orrwa from Syria was one of the young people from the asylum center who accompanied the ROC Midden Nederland to visit Social Work students who were working on a project about refugees. Orrwa…
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Many times we had been told by refugees that there was a need for a soccer activity. So we wanted to arrange that! A group of friends from the soccer club DVSU in Lunetten was eager to welcome the refugees! Soon there was a group of 7 enthusiastic soccer…
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