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“Anyway, life goes on,” says Achmed. It feels like a baffling cliche. We’re standing together in his still bare and stark empty house. Benjamin is hanging up some lights to be able to see, and I [...]

Sometimes you have those moments when you really don’t want to call someone back. Because you know you’re going to have to say no. After the third cry for help in my mailbox, I got [...]

Reported by: Hania Simple acts of kindness in West Exactly 62 hand-written thank you cards and 124 Tony’s Chocolonley chocolates were handed out to bus drivers, vaccination workers, and [...]

Would you like to be more involved with Serve the City? We are hosting a project coordinators training on October 23rd. In this training you will learn what strengths it takes to become a good [...]

It’s Wednesday morning. With trash pickers in my car, I head over to the Sloterplas. Today marks the end of a series of volunteering initiatives by the Equinix company. “I’m not dumping trash if [...]

We believe in the power of volunteering, but also in the power of sharing stories. And we need you for that. Have you done volunteer work in the past year and would you like to share something [...]

Would you like to be more involved with Serve the City? We are hosting a project coordinators training on June 5th. In this training you will learn what strengths it takes to become a good [...]

Stadsboerderij (City Farm) – Osdorp, Nieuw West. On a beautiful Saturday morning 7 Serve the City volunteers gathered to help make Nieuw West more beautiful. In the capable hands of Mihaela, our [...]

Serve the City is active in Amsterdam for the 15th year this year. To celebrate that and because it is time for a new t-shirt design, we are now running a design competition! Are you our new [...]

“There is a healing power in giving” This week I found myself chatting to a project coordinator volunteer just as we were about to leave. She told how she had gone through a difficult time in her [...]