Nature and green in the neighborhood
Help with planting, maintenance and greening your neighborhood. From flower bulbs to tree pits.
→Build and create together
Grab your tools and help build benches, playgrounds and meeting places in the neighborhood.
→Improve the neighborhood together
Organize neighborhood festivals, bridge cultures and make plans together for a better neighborhood.
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Twents dialect for friends. Making neighborhoods better, together.
In Twente, we don't say maatjes. We say moatjes. It's more than a word, it's a promise: I stand beside you, I join in. Moatjes started on the streets, in the neighborhoods of Twente, where neighbors didn't wait for the municipality but took action themselves. We call them veurtrekkers here. People who take the first step to make their neighborhood more beautiful, greener and stronger.
Someone who sees what's missing and takes the first step. Not a hero, just a neighbor with an idea and the courage to act. A veurtrekker doesn't wait for permission. They grab a shovel, hang a poster, or knock on their neighbor's door. It can be that simple.
just start.
Because the best neighborhoods aren't designed by architects or planned by municipalities. They're built by the people who live there, one project at a time. A tree pit here, a bench there, a street party nobody forgets. Moatjes gives those people a stage and a network.
stronger together.
moatjes.
