Tag: NB – INSPIRE ME
Research into childhood cancer and a sailing trip to the Caribbean: Rosalie (15) finances both
It’s hard work on board a sailing ship, but don’t forget about the preparations. A trip with Masterskip is not cheap. Participants pay between 6500 and 8000 euros. The costs…
Parisian Toby wants to bring culinary joie de vivre to Wijk bij Duurstede: ‘They are much too modest here’
He learned the almost military discipline of the French hospitality industry, which is extremely efficient and demanding. “Clear table 2, you’re too slow, you look sloppy, you smell.” The work…
It worked: Wim (60) from Wijk jumps out of a helicopter 61 times
He trained for months, because unfolding a parachute at 200 kilometers per hour requires quite a lot of your abs. Normally Wim jumps a maximum of five times a day,…
These Harmelen farmers are emigrating to France: ‘There is too much uncertainty here, you cannot look ahead for half a year’
The gentlemen do not think they have been a peak loader. Yes, because the company is now empty. The seventy cows were sold in December and the 36 hectares of…
Ella is intersex, but also so much more: ‘Hope people see me and us as normal people’
At the age of eighteen, Ella, together with her parents, went to a specialist. “He decided, not really in consultation, that I should be treated with male hormones. That’s why…
Little knowledge, many prejudices: ‘I sometimes hear that I cannot have albinism’
Albinism is a hereditary, genetic disorder in which the production of pigment is disturbed. This causes a reduced or complete absence of pigment in the skin, hair and/or iris of…
Haymaking with horse and carriage in the middle of Utrecht, farmer Dirk still does it.
The fact that everyone likes it is one of the advantages of his working method. “You have to be a bit of a people person, but I am,” he says.…
Joël from Utrecht helps as a volunteer in the Ukrainian city of Irpin: ‘It is never 100 percent safe’
Not everything was in stock for the first few months, especially in the west of Ukraine, a lot had to get going. “The hardware stores are open as usual, but…
Ten years of social gardening in Transwijk: ‘Utrechters find support and friendship here’
The target group of Stadstuin Food for Good is extremely broad. People with a burnout, intellectual disability or autism can go there, but also for example TBS’ers, ex-detainees, status holders…