With a cup of hot soup on a cold, windy day, youth care organizations hope to encourage people to become foster parents. In North Holland, no fewer than 120 children are on the waiting list. Foster Care Week started today with the campaign ‘Your house a second home’.
“Every potential registration we receive today is a benefit for the future,” says Zandvoort councilor Lars Carree. The driver likes to roll up his sleeves in the food truck on Stationsplein in Haarlem. He fills the bowls for the people who come to the smell and the music.
His call to register as a foster family is underlined by two women, who are spooning a cup of soup together with two girls. One woman is their mother, the other their foster mother. The two girls lived with Ilse for nine months, so that their mother could deal with her addiction.
The girls now live at home with Judith again, but Ilse still has contact with the family. “I sometimes take them to Artis,” she says.
Look below at the soup campaign of the youth care organizations in North Holland at the start of Foster Care Week.
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More awareness of foster care
Zandvoort councilor Lars Carree believes that more awareness should be given to foster care. “Before I became a councilor, I had heard of foster care. But now that I have really started to look into it, I know, for example, that you can also be a part-time foster parent.”