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Campus & Culture 16 February 2022

‘I am going to help reduce maternal mortality in Somalia’

LONGREAD – Ramla Jamac strongly believes in the future of digital healthcare. She won this year’s Student Talent Award for her app MobileUurka, developed for pregnant women in Somalia.
Campus & Culture 27 January 2022

‘Students and worms turn out to be the perfect combination’

LONGREAD – Why throw out all your vegetable cuttings and other green waste when you can feed thousands of worms with it and create fertile soil? More than a hundred Uilenstede residents take a regular walk to one of its…
Campus & Culture 1 December 2021

‘Undocumented people have a right to proper healthcare too’

LONGREAD – If you are homeless, your asylum application has been rejected, or are for some other reason uninsurable, then you can forget about getting treatment from a physiotherapist or dietician. Medical student Elif Sali (26) and her MEDIC association…
Campus & Culture 25 November 2021

‘Refugees are people, not things’

LONGREAD – Whatever the weather, Loes Mulders, staff member at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam spends an hour every month standing outside Amsterdam City Hall. Her aim is to draw attention to the inhumane treatment of refugees.
Campus & Culture 24 August 2020

‘Plenty of room for improvement of online education’

LONGREAD – As chairperson of the student council, Kata Rakić aims to work towards clearer communication for students, particularly for first-year students struggling to build a social network due to the coronavirus crisis.