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Match for Brighter Futurs: Kick-off event

In Brighter Futures students are paired with a Maastricht high school student. The students are supported in doing their homework, developing their talent and realizing their dreams. That all sounds very nice, but why would a student volunteer 3 hours a week to help a student? To find out, we talked to students, pupils and coordinators.

Spreading the Christmas joy through toy drives

Tonight is Christmas Eve, for many one of the most enjoyable evenings of the year. Apart from spending Christmas with your family, for most people it also means thinking more about their fellow man. Christmas is a time to do good for others, like inviting someone to join you at home, preparing a meal for them and donating warm clothes.

Match’ Houses inspiration evening: Stories from participating students

Every six weeks, the members of the Match Houses teams gather and inspire each other. They have dinner together and get to know each other at a deeper level. In this manner, students can blow new life into the current projects in their neighborhoods.

For the first inspiration evening of the academic year, Janna and Shanti, coaches of Match Houses prepared several entertaining, small tasks in order for the group to get to know each other better.

The students live in houses in different neighbourhoods and as the inspiration evening continues, it becomes clear that they all face different challenges (and benefits). Below, Allisa, Lizette, Nicole and Esmee tell about their experiences.

Elisabeth and Dorli are friends with a 70-year age gap

This interview was done by our partner Wohnbuddy, a HomeSharing program in Vienna, Austria. See https://www.wohnbuddy.com/ for more information. Want to apply for HomeSharing yourself? Visit our page www.matchmaastricht.nl/homesharing. We interviewed Elisabeth who lived with an elderly woman, Dorli, a 102-year old lady. Elisabeth got matched with her through the platform wohnbuddy.com Her friends and …

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Integreren met Mestreechteneren doe je zo

Ewout van den Engel (1983) studeerde cultuurwetenschappen in Maastricht en woonde in totaal 14 jaar in en om de stad. Op dit moment houdt hij een crowdfundingactie voor zijn project ‘Op zoek naar de Mestreechter Geis’, waarin hij de Maastrichtse waarden en identiteit onderzoekt om zo nieuwkomers gemakkelijker te laten integreren in de Maastrichtse gemeenschap. …

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