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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“Our contact is very special. We can laugh. We talk about everything. We feel at home with Janine’s family.” On a cold afternoon in December over two years ago, I rang the doorbell of Alaa, a Palestinian-Syrian young woman who lives in Zeist with her husband and three children. I…
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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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“It was very valuable to give the children a fun afternoon. We all went home feeling fulfilled.”Last week, a group of students from the Marnix Academy Utrecht came to the Star Lodge to give the Huiskamer van Welkom in Utrecht a facelift. The students, together with a group of residents…
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“How much useful information we received! Now we can start taking our first steps into the Dutch job market, but it is very exciting!” This was one of the reactions of the eighteen participants in the CV-making workshop that Anne Marie Trip and Hans Slobbe provided in collaboration with Welkom…
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Do you play sports in Utrecht West and could your team, group or club use more members? There are people living in azc Utrecht who would love to join an existing group. But you can also start your own new activity with the residents of the asylum seekers’ center. Think…
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