Woman 60+ wants a cheerful and reliable buddy

We are looking for a buddy for a woman over sixty from Ouderkerk a/d Amstel. Due to negative experiences with people from her past, she is suspicious of making new contacts. She avoids large groups of people and social environments. She spends a lot of time at home and she is bored. It is a big step for her to start a buddy relationship. But she wants it badly. She wants a reliable buddy who has a lot of understanding and patience and is cheerful and cheerful. Preferably someone between 60 and 70 years old, but she is also open to a younger person. She would love it if her buddy came to visit her at home. She likes to play board games like Yahtzee or Rummikub. She also seems to enjoy making cards together, working in the garden, taking a walk or cooking and eating. She is not so much concerned with how to spend her time. She attaches more value to the distraction and fun that a buddy offers her. She prefers to meet in the afternoon. She smokes, but she can smoke in the kitchen. Are you interested in becoming her buddy? Read below how that works. As a volunteer with the Roads Buddy project, we pair you with a regular participant: your buddy. We connect the participant and the volunteer based on, among other things, common interests. The function of this buddy contact is to break through or prevent social isolation for a participant with a psychological vulnerability by going out together. As a volunteer you provide distraction and a bit of fun. It is important that you are prepared to meet with your buddy once every fortnight for one year (longer is possible). Furthermore, you are prepared to enter into the encounter 'openly', without wanting to change the other person. That sometimes requires adaptability. Working hours: During the day or in the evening, during the week or at the weekend: all possible. If you become each other's buddy, you will meet once every two weeks for a period of one year. When and where you meet each other, you always decide in mutual consultation with your buddy. Intake procedure: Contact person Roads Maatjesproject: Jorise (Mon, Tue, Thu). Please feel free to contact us for an introductory meeting. If you definitively register as a volunteer, an interview will follow with a participant. After this conversation, you can indicate the next day whether you want to become a buddy couple. Yes = start contact. No = new conversation with another buddy.