Overview projects Welfare
Here you can find all of the projects we contributed to in 2008.
Social Entrepreneurship
Amsterdam
‘De Juiste Maat’ (the right size) is a project that enables migrant women, who are largely alienated from the job market, to become 'host parents' and care for children in their own houses.
Haarlem
‘My Design’ is a new, hip and ‘high-end’ label for products made by two of the work-based learning enterprises of De Schalm.
Zenderen
As part of a social enterprise, the Zwanenhof Centre of Contemplation offers work experience programmes to people who are alienated from the job market in the region of Twente.
Den Bosch
The Buiten Gewoon ('extra-ordinary') Foundation has established a residential working farm community enabling young people with a mental or physical impairment or multiple impairments to live a meaningful existence as farmers.
Tilburg
Restaurant/lunchroom Prins Heerlijk offers work experience programmes to young people with psychiatric and/or mental disabilities and young people who are largely alienated from the job market.
Wierum
Circus training for young people with special needs, such as learning or physical disabilities ("wajongers"), to enable them to develop their skills and become fully-fledged members of society.
Amsterdam
‘Emma at Work’ is a recruitment agency for young people with a chronic illness or physical impairment.
Dronten
In addition to its child care facilities for children with developmental disorders, Enjoy-it Flevoland Foundation will be offering, as of 2009, work-based learning programmes to a maximum of fourteen people with physical, mental or psychological impairments.
Rotterdam
‘Spotvogel’ is a theatre workshop based in Haarlem, which utilises participatory drama within psychiatric care to activate and empower care recipients and socially vulnerable people who should be receiving care but are inclined to avoid it.
Castricum
At the tearooms Het Oude Theehuys in Castricum, people with an impairment receive the relevant work experience to go on to enter the labour market.
Purmerend
The Landzijde Foundation offers meaningful daytime activities to people who are alienated from society and the job market at affiliated farm holdings.
Oosterhout
Women with psychological problems, women in financial difficulty or with drug-related problems and premature school leavers create jewellery that is sold at home parties and gain valuable work experience in the process.
Bonaire
The learning-based restaurant De Bonairiaan offers work experience programmes to young people with a minor psychiatric and/or mental disability, behavioural and learning difficulties from Bonaire. The programme aims to empower participants to make the transition to the mainstream job market or to further education.
Zutphen
In the ‘Buurtsuper Speciaal’ project, fifteen supermarkets have been set up in small village centres in the 'Achterhoek' employing people with psychiatric problems.
Rotterdam
The Van de Boer trial store, based in the disadvantaged neighbourhood of Mathenesserkwartier in Rotterdam, offers work experience programmes to young people who are largely alienated from the job market, enabling them to make the transition to the mainstream job market.
Amsterdam
This college enables people with a serious psychiatric impairment to participate in work-based learning projects in a practical environment.
Amsterdam
Feasibility study into a so-called ‘Guide de Coeur’, a restaurant guide for socially responsible hospitality and catering.
Sport and Health
Leiden
‘Knowledge & movement’ is a programme for overweight children and adolescents.
Den Haag
Feasibility study undertaken by the Startbureau to assess the demand for, and viability of an Antillean version of the successful Dutch Youth Sport Fund.
Bunnik
Stimulating local sports events for people with an impairment.
Bennekom
The NISB encourages the elderly and people with a chronic illness to participate in physical activity and sport throughout the Netherlands.
Ruinerwold
Establishment of riding stables and a tearoom offering a fun day out for 25 people with a mental impairment, enabling them to participate in horse-riding events with able-bodied people.
Arnhem
The National Sportweek Foundation, in partnership with the National School Breakfast Week, organised a national sports day in all primary schools in the Netherlands, including all special needs schools. The aim of the project was to encourage 60,000 children to join sports clubs and associations after participating in these sports events.
Hendrik Ido Ambacht
‘Tandem Support’ enables young people with a physical impairment living in the "Drecht" cities to participate in sports events, and encourages them to join regular sports clubs and associations.
Amsterdam
Women Win initiates sports projects for girls and women, in particular women of non-Dutch origin, with the aim of emancipating, encouraging and empowering them.
Welfare Miscellaneous
Amsterdam
The Academy for Independence is launching a nationwide initiative that enables a large number of people with an impairment to participate in the job market.
Amsterdam
‘Sina Wak Sina Mira’ is an art project for disadvantaged youngsters at a high level of risk on the island of Curaçao.
Den Haag
‘Young Professionals’ offers work experience programmes in the non-profit sector to Antillean students on the island of Curaçao, with an emphasis on the welfare sector.
Rijswijk
The Faria Clowns visit elderly patients with dementia in nursing homes in the Netherlands.
Amsterdam
‘De Belevenis’ is a travelling social centre for people with multiple impairments and elderly people in the end-stage of dementia.
The Netherlands
Application Extra Project Sponsor Bingo Lottery 2008: Droom-Belevenis, in partnership with the Dutch Foundation for the Disabled Child (Nederlandse Stichting voor het Gehandicapte Kind, NSGK).
Hummelo
Diva Dichtbij stages intimate, personal musical theatre productions in living rooms and at the bedsides of chronically sick patients in nursing homes and hospices.
Zwolle
A documentary and an informative film to support and broaden the practice of the Eigen Kracht Conferences, promoting 'own strength, inner force'.
Nijmegen
The film ‘Abraça-me’ focuses attention on the plight of homeless people in the Netherlands and Brazil. In addition, the film's producers offer work to a group of homeless people in Nijmegen to enable them to reintegrate into society.
Roden
Muziektheater aan Huis (Musical Theatre at Home) organises special performances in nursing homes for the elderly and people with dementia.
Utrecht
The documentary series ‘Zilveren Kracht in Beeld’ (silver power in focus) showcases older people who become volunteers.
Schoorl
‘Zaaiers’ is a short film that paints an intriguing picture of the healing power of working in agriculture and farming for people living on the margins of society.
Nijmegen
Unit Academie Foundation offers professional training in the visual arts and design for young people with autism.
Monnickendam
Support with the re-integration of 250 detained women and their children during and after detention, aimed at reintegrating them into society.
Youth Coaching and Mentoring
Leeuwarden
The project ‘Movimentu pa Futuro’ (‘move for your future’) consists of an intensive sports programme to get disadvantaged youngsters at risk back into mental and physical shape.