Picking Up Volunteer Stories: De Uylenburg Petting Zoo  On Saturday afternoon Serve the City volunteers gathered at De Uylenburg Petting Zoo in the heart of Rembrandtpark. The farm is more than [...]

Shovels, Smiles and Small Moments of Connection: A morning in a farm with Serve the City Amsterdam At a children’s farm tucked away in Ganzenhoef, the sound of laughter mixes with the rustle of [...]

Running reporter: Catherine Feng This piece was written by a running reporter about her experience volunteering with Serve the City. She joined a project in Amsterdam Noord with JCI (Junior [...]

Running reporter: Rafealla Mulas On May 17, 2025, Global Volunteer Day brought people together across the world to take part in a wide range of volunteering projects. In Amsterdam, one of the [...]

On May 17th, Serve the City Amsterdam joined the Global Volunteer Day celebration. Serve the City is a worldwide movement with volunteers from Australia to Kenya, from Paris to Nigeria. It’s [...]

  Last Thursday 15 May 2025 was a big day for us: the very first Serve the City Partner Event took place at our beautiful location on Nieuwe Herengracht. From half past one, the first guests [...]

Running report guerilla action Vondelpark by Marek Mussel A little after 11 in the morning, on a beautiful Amsterdam spring day, I spot three young men standing in front of an Albert Heijn near [...]

Lina’s journey with Serve the City Amsterdam  For Lina, giving back has always been second nature. Originally from Jordan, she has spent years working with NGOs, focusing on humanitarian causes [...]

How volunteering with Serve the City creates meaningful connections.  When Gemma moved to the Netherlands just a month ago, she was looking for ways to connect with her new community. Signing up [...]

Let’s read Catherina’s story – When volunteering challenges your ego. I didn’t want to go. I had signed up, I had committed, and yet, that morning, everything in me [...]