Read more Anne and Lieneke are buddies
A volunteer
Anne (87) often felt lonely, but thanks to Welzijn Lelysta's buddy project, she now dares to go out on her own again.
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Read more Brigitte on youth prevention work
A young person (12-27 years)
Mother Brigitte and daughter Lotte talk about their experience with youth prevention work.
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Read more Cindy brings warmth to the street
An adult
How can I do something for my neighbours and make sure we look after each other more in the street? It was with this wish that Cindy, a resident of Zandbank, came into contact with Welzijn Lelystad's community work.
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Read more Lionne joins hospital
A volunteer
Lionne volunteers with Patient Support and always goes with Donny when she has an appointment at the hospital. She also goes into the consulting room with him, listening in during the conversation and summarising the information.
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Read more Nour on refugee work
A volunteer
When Nour fled his homeland Syria in 2021, he left everything behind. Now, four years later, he speaks Dutch, has completed his participation statement and volunteers to help other newcomers find their place in Dutch society.
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Read more Sander and Susan are support parents
A parent of a young child (0-12 years)
Sander and Susan are support parents, providing a loving place for another child.
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Read more Respite care: taking a breather
Mantelzorger
Wytske is already a respite volunteer every Tuesday afternoon with Ria. She has dementia and her husband can do something for himself for a while.
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Read more: ‘Through volunteering, I’m learning the language and getting to know the people’
A volunteer
How do you start afresh in a country you don’t know? Where everything is different: the language, the people and the customs? For Mehrbakhsh (59), the answer is simple: by getting stuck in. He came to the Netherlands a few years ago. In Lelystad, he found a place to start afresh and, above all, to get involved. ‘I volunteer for three organisations. That’s how I learnt the language and got to know the people.’
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Read more: Volunteering as a meeting place
A volunteer
Pregnant with her first child, Khadija, now 29, fled the war in Syria. She lived in a tent camp in Turkey for five years and went on to have three more children. In 2023, she found a safe haven in Lelystad. Through her voluntary work, she is learning the language and getting to know other people.
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