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Pancakes for Life Reported by: Kalina Barneva Photographer: Fanni Szántó It is an early Saturday morning, and I am both nervous and excited as I’m walking through the quiet city streets. The sun lays its light onto the sleepy [...]

On the Playground of Life Reported by: Kalina Barneva Photographer: @steffi.naydenov Although the sun is shining brightly high up in a cloudless sky, the morning starts out quite cold. This, however, can not diminish the [...]

THIS ACTION IS ALREADY FINISHED! We are not taking any items anymore.  The need is great in Ukraine and the countries around it. We cannot and do not want to look away and will take action where we can. We are working [...]

Join our team as a project coordinator? Would you like to be more involved with Serve the City? We are hosting a project coordinator’s training on April 23rd. In this training, you will learn what strengths it takes to [...]

  Picking up litter in Vondelpark Reported by: Robbie Farrell Photographer: Olivier Zaoui Suzanne is Dutch and lived most of her life in Amsterdam and has been volunteering for Serve The City for a long time now. She has [...]

Reported by: Robbie and Oliver Photographer: Olivier Zaoui The 5th of February 2022 Helping in a petting farm Meet Manish              Manish is living in the Netherlands for over 2 years now [...]

We are so thankful for what all of you managed to do over the past few weeks! No fewer than 401 children will be made happy this week with a beautiful gift from Sinterklaas. Where many mothers have no money to buy a nice [...]

Make a donation and help us getting an electric bakfiets! The weather today might be sad and rainy. But here at Serve the City we can’t stop smiling. Today way we were able to deliver Sinterklaas packages around town for the [...]

Reported by: Natasha G. Collecting litter in Vondelpark Today there were around 12 volunteers helping to collect litter in Vondelpark and they were provided with litter pickers plus large bags to collect the litter in. No [...]

A story from Susanne, the social worker You have helped an elderly gentleman without a network, who had to move because of his physical problems. We had to move his household effects, take things to the landfill, remove the [...]

“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 bring the paint. Holes in the [...]

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 myself together and called. [...]

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 public service personnel by our [...]

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 coordinator and how volunteers [...]

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 that’s what you might think,” [...]

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 about it? Gladly! We’d [...]