Have you ever heard of neighborhood lockers? That is a cupboard that is often filled with free food and drinks for people who need it. You can now also find them in Zoetermeer.
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Neighborhood cupboards are intended to help people with a small wallet and to prevent food waste. Foods that you do not use yourself but that are still good, you can put in a neighborhood cupboard. Someone else can take it for free. For example, do you still have a pack of macaroni in your pantry?
Neighborhood cabinets in Zoetermeer
Neighborhood lockers are popping up more and more. According to SoGoed Foundation, initiator of the neighborhood cabinets, the number of cabinets throughout the Netherlands is already approaching three hundred. Curious where you can find them in Zoetermeer? Through Google Maps you can easily find them on a map. In Zoetermeer there is only one neighborhood cabinet that is mentioned on the website of this foundation. She finds it at Bert Haanstra Strip 121 in the De Leyens district. So there may be many more to come!
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But there is also a cupboard with free food, tampons, care products and other items on Voorweg 112, at the Eigen Wij Foundation.
Would you like to order a neighborhood cabinet yourself or make a donation to the foundation? Then you can do that via this page. Are you missing any neighborhood cabinets in this overview? Mail them to [email protected] then we’ll add them.
Free menstrual products
In addition to the community cabinets with food and sometimes toiletries, there are MUPs. These are dispensing points for free menstrual products, such as sanitary towels. You can read more about it in this article:
