Student Mohamed is from West Africa. “How are you?”, he asks, one of the phrases he has learned by now. “And I can already tell the days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.”
Setting up the new school was not an easy task. It has been years of work and it took a lot of courage. “We have really stuck our neck out, also financially, by financing this. We may be a bit modest about it, but that is typically North Holland, I think. Yet we have really created something unique here,” says Hans van Beek .
Sticking your neck out for the kids
Dennis Burger adds: “We can be extremely proud of what is here. There were plenty of obstacles and often times when we could have said let’s not do it. But we said ‘yes’, always in the interests of the child “We ignored everything around it and only looked at what they needed.”
In the future, the school also hopes to offer childcare and MBO education. Van Beek thinks that the setup could be an example for the rest of the Netherlands: “I hope that buses full of visitors come our way and that they think: ‘Damn, it can be done like that.'”