‘They are increasingly forgotten’: New campaign combats loneliness
The Netherlands is dealing with millions of lonely people in their elderly populations, so a new trending hashtag is reminding ...
Read moreThe Netherlands is dealing with millions of lonely people in their elderly populations, so a new trending hashtag is reminding ...
Read moreThe Social Planning Buereau Groningen and the Trendbureau Drenthe say that for young people, the Coronavirus crisis has often led ...
Read moreThe Hanzehogeschool will be conducting the research A large, two-year study has started in Groningen into loneliness among students. The ...
Read moreNaturally, the video is in Dutch The Coronavirus outbreak has, naturally, thrown a spanner in the works for student recruitment. ...
Read moreThe Schimmelpenninck Huys hotel in Groningen has been accommodating the city’s homeless for a month Translated by Racheal Adeniyi Thirty years ago, Jan Zwerver (55) celebrated his wedding in the Groningen hotel Schimmelpenninck Huys. Jan is now staying the night again, in a chic hotel room in Groningen’s city center, but as a homeless person during the Coronavirus outbreak. “It’s great here,” says Zwerver, laughing. As reported by the NRC. The sixty rooms of the Schimmelpenninck Huys were fully booked for the coming months with conference visitors, musicians, and tourists, but those guests stayed away because of the Coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, in Groningen’s homeless shelters they had the opposite problem: it was too cramped for too many people with vulnerable health. After a call from the municipality, about twenty-five to forty people are now utilising the hotel. The Schimmelpenninck Huys has been a 24-hour shelter for the homeless in Groningen since the beginning of April. Zwerver was in Lisbon last year to start a catering business, but unfortunately lost his job due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Shortly after that his savings had run out, and he eventually lost his home. He ...
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Read moreThe province has been busy with preparations, with no cases in the Netherlands yet reported Translated by Thomas Ansell With ...
Read moreEven though many Dutch people speak English well, international residents in Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe want more contact with residents ...
Read moreAnnual research shows year after year that foreign students feel isolated and frustrated by the lack of inclusion they feel ...
Read moreInternational students in Groningen and other Dutch student cities report suffering from more stress than Dutch students, according to research ...
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