Search and find information
Stap Verder is a place where people can obtain knowledge and information about Dutch society. The mission of Stap Verder is that residents of Amsterdam Zuidoost come into their own. This means that people gain access to the knowledge they need to build a dignified existence. The Netherlands has signed the Declaration of Human Rights. But it is not always easy to get your rights in the Netherlands. This applies to residents who were born and raised in the Netherlands as well as to newcomers.  

 

Come to your right
Access to your rights must be granted by other people. And rules and bureaucracy sometimes prevent that access. But also ignorance, lack of knowledge about the many possibilities of Dutch society means that people do not get what they are entitled to. Sometimes people have lived in degrading conditions for a long time and have become accustomed to not being granted rights. This also means that they cannot appropriate their rights.  

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Improve access to amenities
Stap Verder tries to work on that access in all sorts of ways.  

• In consultation with visitors, we can look at individual situations and provide information or look for solutions to problems or injustice.

• If we see more people in consultation hours who are confronted with the same obstacles to acquire information, we can enter into discussions with authorities and government to improve information provision or set up information activities.

• By compiling a social map of Amsterdam Zuidoost , we try to gain insight into the many facilities that are available and to map out their accessibility. The office hours staff can use this information, but we also try to make this information accessible to visitors themselves, by means of a computer program in which people can search for the information they need. Making this system will take several years.

• Where facilities do not exist or are not (yet) sufficient, Stap Verder will set up activities itself (if possible temporarily). At the moment these are free Dutch lessons, a postal address, the possibility to do the laundry, take a shower or cook a meal.