The organization is responsible for living and a work-learning trajectory for people throughout the Netherlands. In Amsterdam it concerns almost twenty people with a mild intellectual disability and sometimes a physical disability. They are supported on the bicycle depot by supervisors who see how important this work is for them.
One of the clients who works there is Abdel Kaddour: “I go here for colleagues. That I can ultimately support them and they also support me. In the end I would like to get further, I prefer to go abroad or forklift driver and it is very nice here.” Wilco van Dorp is a supervisor: “It is really a kind of family. The work is very important, they are busy with their hands and can be left very free. That gives responsibility and it is satisfaction.”
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The municipality spends five -year contracts for these types of things, including in the last ten years that Philadelphia supplied the employees of the bicycle depot. In the meantime, the contract is almost ending again. A spokesperson for the municipality: “Pantar performs a legal task for the municipality to help people who are at a distance from the labor market to work. They therefore in principle get the first chance of carrying them out in suitable work assignments from us.”