The Sloten Mill in Amsterdam Nieuw-West runs on volunteers. No fewer than seventy people keep the mill open to visitors seven days a week. To keep this up, at least thirty new volunteers are needed, so Marianne Swaan set up a callnhhelpt.nl.
Marianne herself ended up at the water mill thirteen years ago after a long illness: “I live nearby and volunteer work brought me out of my house again. I was quite alone, but now I have a ‘mill family’. It is really very warm here”.
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Jean Brugman has been a volunteer at the mill for 33 years. As a wedding registrar, he married his daughter there in 1991 and never left. Jean is eager for new colleagues: “We are short of dozens of volunteers to keep the mill running, such as millers, counter staff, tour guides and handy people for maintenance.”
The Sloten mill is a water mill. “In the event of enormous flooding in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, this mill can help to pump out the water, together with the pumping stations,” says miller Maud van Westerhoven.
Would you like to become part of the mill family? Then look up nhhelpt.nl.