BLOG What education does not give you

by | Feb 27, 2017 | Blog

Every year, fifty students of the Wij Helpen Daar Foundation leave for the former Yugoslavia for two weeks to do voluntary work in nursing homes or to organize holiday activities with Roma children. Why do they give two weeks of their ...

BLOG Believing is life-giving

by | December 22, 2016 | Blog

Everyone believes in something. God, man, saints, friendship, love, justice, decency or 'that there is more', 'that it will always work out'. The last month I was again confronted with this considerably. Firstly, we celebrated -as always-

BLOG Cleveringa, Pussy Riot and Luther

by | December 5, 2016 | Blog

During this period, professors from Leiden University will give lectures all over the world in commemoration of Leiden professor Cleveringa. He gave a lecture on 26 November 1940 in opposition to the German regime. He protested the dismissal of his ...

Blog Borders and Bridges

by | November 17, 2016 | Blog

Borders and bridges As student pastors we suspect that in the end a person cannot do without others and that in every person there is a deep desire to connect. We therefore believe that you become a more complete person if you really ...