The vacant school building of CSG Vincent van Gogh in Beilen is pictured as new accommodation for the food bank. The current building of the food bank in Beilen is no longer sufficient.
“A dilapidated building”, Wim Oosting calls the building on De Omloop where the food bank with clothing bank is housed. Oosting is chairman of food bank Hart van Drenthe, which includes the Beiler location.
“It cannot be heated, volunteers are literally in the cold. The window frames are rotten and the paving stones are dirty. In short, it is not a picture to put it euphemistically.”
The food bank has been housed in the building for years, and the inconveniences have actually been tolerated all that time. Oosting does not want to speak of emergency, but it is time for something else.
Woonservice Midden-Drenthe offered to move to the front of the building, which is in order, but according to Oosting it is too small. A good alternative is the vacant building of csg Vincent van Gogh together with the housing association and the municipality. That school merged into the new Volta, a stone’s throw away.
To questions from the PvdA about the housing situation, the Municipal Executive of Midden-Drenthe recently answered that it is looking into whether it can offer Vincent van Gogh a solution for the food and clothing bank in the short term.
Oosting agrees. Last month it was announced that the Techlab Beilen will also be housed in the school building. According to Oosting, they could use a good neighbor such as the food and clothing bank. “I think it’s good if there’s some life in the brewery in that building.”