Love Your City PROJECTS
1. CLEANING A FAMILY HOME
Project: Cleaning an extremely cluttered and unkept home. We will help a single mom with tiding and cleaning all 7 living areas in the apartment (floors, walls and doors). And discarding unwanted objects, in consultation.
People needed: 5
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshments: Bring your own.
Requirement: Dutch
2. CLEANING AND PAINTING FOR AN ELDERLY LADY
Project: Due to major health issues a lady from our community desperately needs help with cleaning her home and garden and painting.
People needed: 8
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshments: Bring your own.
3. ELDERLY WESTWIJK (family friendly)
Project: Help make fun games.
- A big clown with an empty face, where someone can put their face through
- A donkey for Pin The Tail on The Donkey
- Clog game with lots (Tug-of-War)
- Can Toss Game (please collect the tin cans prior to the project)
If there is time after lunch and making the games, we’ll take a walk with the residents.
People needed: 10
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshments: Provided by the Zorghuis, prepared by the volunteers.
Requirement: Bring empty food tin cans.
4. CANCELLED
5. WALKING WITH THE ELDERLY IN WHEELCHAIRS (family friendly)
Project: Together with Brentano’s volunteers, Crossroads will take some wheelchair-bound elderly people for a walk in the Amstelveen area.
People needed: 25+
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshment: Bring your own.
Requirement: Wheelchair training course on Wednesday, May 22nd at 19:30/20:00 (TBC) at ‘T Huis aan de Poel, Amstelveen.
6. CANCELLED
7. PAINTING & CLEANING A HOME
Project: A painting and cleaning team is needed to help a single lady make a fresh start. We would like to paint the living room, kitchen, toilet and bedroom.
People needed: 5
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshments: Bring your own.
8. GARDENING – COMMUNITY CENTER DE DICHTER
Project: Help vulnerable members of the Dichters neighborhood prepare their gardens for summer.
People needed: 10
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshments: Bring your own.
9. ODD JOBS AT COMMUNITY ROOM KEIZER KARELPARK
Project: The folks at the community room need help with small odd jobs, like gardening, tidying and sorting inventory.
People needed: 3
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshments: Lunch is provided.
10. ACCOMPANY THE ELDERLY TO A CHOIR PERFORMANCE (family friendly)
Project: De Luwte is organising a choir performance for their clients and will need a helping hand in picking up the clients from their homes, serving coffee, tea and other refreshments and taking them home again after the program.
People needed: 8
Time: 13:00 – 16:30
11. PETTING ZOO DE GLIPHOEVE (family friendly)
Project: De Gliphoeve needs some extra hands to help them cleaning stables; baking pancakes; support in managing the second-hand shop; sweeping and cleaning the site; prepare activities; and water the vegetable garden.
People needed: 5
Time: 11:00 – 16:00
Lunch and refreshments: Bring your own.
12. COFFEE & POFFERTJES
Project: Prepare and serve coffee and “poffertjes” at the community center Middenhof. The centre will serve as a meeting point for elderly people attending a choir performance.
People needed: 6
Time: 11:00 – 14:30
Lunch and refreshments: Bring your own
13. WALK & GAMES WITH THE ELDERLY WITH DEMENTIA (family friendly)
Project: Help the team at Zonnehof Bovenkerk provide a fun day for their elderly. Take a stroll before lunch and play some games in the afternoon.
People needed: 6-10
Time: 11:00 – 14:00
Lunch and refreshments: Bring your own lunch, refreshments are provided.