Tag: NB – INSPIRE ME
More young people at the Handwerkbeurs: ‘Knitting is no longer just for grandmothers
Wool seller Sylvia Roozeboom acknowledges that the majority of her customers are “a bit older”, “but more and more younger people are joining them.” She thinks it’s a shame that…
Paper flowers keep Jessica’s brain healthy: ‘I have also fallen a bit in love with paper’
Jessica pricks a stem one leaf at a time to create an increasingly full flower. She first applied some paint to the pink paper leaves with a stamp, so that…
Unfulfilled desire to have children inspires queer theater maker to write a play
Daan has wanted to have children for a long time. “That is difficult, that is sadness, that is mourning. As a gay man it is very difficult to find a…
Jovanna from Utrecht is looking for her donor father: ‘It’s now or never’
Jovanna’s personal story starts with her mothers Linda and Lot. The couple, who had long wanted to have children, decided in 1993 to use an anonymous donor. They became pregnant…
How students at De Tolakker university farm convert cow shit into energy
Wood chips, water and cow manure. With those three ingredients, students at the Uithof make a large compost heap in a tank. Energy is generated through evaporation and fermentation. The…
For example, students on a university farm make energy from cow dung: ‘We can use this to heat offices for two winters’
Between the meadows and the cows of the university grounds, the colossus, the so-called Biomeiler, suddenly appears. A meter high tank of almost 6 meters in diameter. Currently empty, but…
On the cheapest holiday at the Vakantiebeurs you can make more noise than in a hotel
In your own country you can go on a friends weekend to Weesp for 120 euros per person. Retro, indoor, glamping, vintage. Owner Irmgard throws around a lot of terms.…
With bicycle and cart, Stef (11) collects more than 100 Christmas trees: ‘Otherwise I get bored’
“Hello, I had an appointment to pick up your tree.” He cheerfully rings the bell at a house on Gouwestraat in Amersfoort. After the resident has removed the tree from…
Pilot project to teach Piet (68) to live with spinal cord injury: ‘Faster out of the black hole’
Piet Deenen from Bilthoven ended up in a black hole a few years ago. He suffered a spinal cord injury due to a collision. Only at home, after rehabilitation, did…
Hugo (18) did not want to swim as a toddler and is now participating in the Snooker World Championship
No one knows where the fascination comes from. No one in his family participates in elective sports. But his parents do support him. At the age of seven, when Hugo…