Making pancakes @Joannes Zwijsen

Written by Anne-Lin van Gelder

Because of the new structure of Serve the City Tilburg our committee Serve the Grey set out to find new collaboration partners.

We accomplished this by hosting a night for our target audience.

For this night we invited several representatives of residential care facilities to discuss, with them, what kind of activities are best suited for our target audience and what kind of collaborations we could create.

From this we got in contact with residential care facility Joannes Zwijsen

The activity coordinator from Joannes Zwijsen brought up that she could use our help with baking pancakes for the residents of Joannes Zwijsen.

So, because we thought this was such a fun activity we set out, with 6 volunteers, to bake some pancakes.

On Tuesday the 21th of January we made pancakes for the residents of care home Joannes Zwijsen.

We agreed in advance to collect at 9:30 am in our room (E205), see photo above.

Once on location we were warmly welcomed by an employee named Marian. She first gave us an explanation about the care home itself. She then gave us a small tour in the building.

We were supposed to provide for pancakes for three different departments. We were present with a total of six volunteers.
We split up in three groups of two. One person would make the pancakes and the other would serve the pancakes.

Before and after eating we socialized with the elderly. They were very enthusiastic and they really liked it that we visited them and even made pancakes for them.

We had a pleasant and successful morning/ afternoon! All volunteers have had a nice chat with the residents.

On behalf of Serve the City Tilburg we would like to thank the care home very much for their hospitality. In addition, we naturally want to thank the volunteers for their efforts!