Grandparents' Day
Flowers against loneliness
Grandparents' Day & Week Against Loneliness
Since 2014, the Felini Foundation has organised celebrations for Grandparents' Day in the Netherlands on the first Sunday of October. In several cities, the foundation organises activities such as a flower workshop for grandparents and grandchildren, theatre performances, and lectures. Various activities are also organised in care homes, during the Week Against Loneliness.
To give grandparents the appreciation they deserve, this year again Marginpar will donate flowers to childcare centres. At one hundred Partou after-school clubs, the children will make a colourful flower arrangement to give to a (lonely) elderly person. The elderly at the care home in the neighbourhood, the elderly neighbour in the street or just their own grandparents: they could all use some company.
Partou: "The residents of residential care group Flora, located at the Floriade in Almere, have the scoop. As a foretaste of the Week against Loneliness, they will receive a visit from after-school club Partou Klipgriend in Almere. Both the children and the elderly are really looking forward to it! With concentrated heads, the children set to work to make something beautiful together."
Grandparents' Day at Floriade Almere in the Netherlands
Grandparents' Day will be organised at the Italy pavilion at Floriade on Sunday 2 October. It will be opened by Italian ambassador Giorgio Novello and Charles Lansdorp of the Felinifoundation. Subsequently, all kinds of activities for grandparents and their grandchildren will start: from making flower arrangements to listening to a story told by Gerda Lenten-Havertong, known from the Dutch edition of Sesame Street.
So come to Floriade on Sunday 2 October! Children up to 12 years old have free entrance this day. Order these entrance tickets via floriade.com/ discount with the promo code KIDS22