A flower for the sick neighbor or a box of chocolate for the neighbor three houses away who has found a new job. In eleven streets in Nieuw-Weerdinge, such a present will be the most normal thing in the world from next month.
The streets in the mouth village have registered as sweet and sorrow street, a project of the Bucket welfare organization Sedna. The streets will each have a budget of around 100 euros. This budget can be used by residents to buy a present for a neighbor and then bring it along or have it delivered.
Naober help
Each street will also have its own point of contact, where ideas for the little treat can be reported. Sedna neighborhood worker Erika Santinge hopes that thanks to the For better or worse– look at each other more often. “The naober help from the past has largely disappeared. It is no longer obvious to ask a neighbor or someone else from the street for a ride to the hospital, for example. The nice thing is meant to get back into conversation with each other,” says the neighborhood worker. .
The money was raised by the municipality of Emmen and housing association Lefier, among others. There are almost two thousand such projects nationwide. Nieuw-Weerdinge is the first project in Drenthe.