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Netherlands

Introduction and Recent News

Chartered in 1993, Prison Fellowship Netherlands continues to help prisoners and their families find new ways of living their lives without crime and with Christ. Volunteers help organize many resources for inmates, including aftercare, restorative justice programs, the Sycamore Tree Project, and Angel Tree.

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New Programme Taps Prisoners’ Creativity

PF Netherlands continues to see growth among the prisoner participants in their Sycamore Tree Project® for youth, known as SOS (Spreken over Schuld). One prisoner participant recently noted that it has been difficult to think about the harm he has caused others and the bad choices he’s made, “but, I kept coming to SOS, and now I am glad I did,” he says.

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Discovering Forgiveness

When young prisoners in the Netherlands hear a burglary victim's story, they are moved to give her a gift. Click below to read their story.

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Discovering Forgiveness

Helping prisoners to see the consequences of their crimes and feel remorse for their actions is what Prison Fellowship’s Sycamore Tree Project® is all about. One of the ways the programme accomplishes this is by showing offenders the impact that crime has on victims. Such was the case for juvenile prisoners (ages 16 and 17) taking part in PF Netherlands’ Sycamore Tree Project® known there as “Spreken over Schuld (SOS),” which means, “Speaking about Guilt.”

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Helping Youth

A group of young men between the ages of 16 and 18 were the first to participate in PF Netherlands’ new Sycamore Tree Project®, held recently at the Youth Prison Teylingereind in Sassenheim.

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A Simple Burglary

It looked like a tornado had hit, but what really happened felt much worse. Greet didn’t recognize her own home. Drawers were turned upside down, papers lay all over the floor and the shelves and tables that once held her most prized possessions were now bare. Her favourite jewellery, which held deep sentimental value and had been passed down from generations, were gone.

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Mailing Address

Postbus 5042
Zoetermeer, 2701 GA Netherlands

Affiliate Details

  • Executive Director: Hans Barendrecht
  • Board Chairperson: Jan van der Wal

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