Employee Experience... from the desk of our Director

Employee experience during this coronavirus moved towards a far more humanistic, empathetic and broader paradigm. Deborah Valentine, ACCESS Executive Director shares her thoughts in this article

The artbook as cookbook

While the Rijksmuseum’s galleries and cookbook’s images captivate us with the mystery and eloquence of the Dutch Masters, they also stimulate our culinary appetites. The modest simplicity of Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter and the domestic warmth of Jan Steen’s The Feast of Saint Nicholas...

Good mental healthcare in the Netherlands

Living in another country can be a rewarding, life- changing experience, but it is not without its difficulties. Many internationals underestimate how confronting life in a foreign country far away from close family members and their usual frame of reference can be, and the impact...

Amsterdam Kitchen: A tasty podcast

Particularly at the moment, the kitchen seems to be the perfect place to spend time and energy and to release stress. Amsterdam Kitchen is an English-language radio show and podcast full of mouth-watering culinary inspiration. Read more about this show in this article.

An incredible connection

“Like many internationals who move around, I felt somehow misplaced,” says Janine Beukes-Almeida, a volunteer at ACCESS. “Like I had forgotten where I belonged. That was until I moved to the Netherlands and began researching my family history.” Beginning the search “Growing up I heard...