Amsterdam: Social Justice

Depart Home for Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Arrive in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Airport Transfer
Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do incase of an emergency. 

Amsterdam Historical & Cultural Walking Tour

Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets. 

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

PIC Visit and Discussion - Sex working vs sex traffic.  Talk with sex workers to get a glimpse of this world we always consider taboo. 

Lunch Break

City of Freedom Walking Tour - Amsterdam has always been known as a city of Freedom. From the policy of tolerance in the 17th century to the hippie movement in the 60s and the liberal laws of today. Welcome to the Amsterdam most never get to see! 

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Amsterdam Tropical Museum -  the Museum became part of the Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, researching the life in distant countries, not necessarily primitive cultures – simply different, than a Western tradition.

Lunch Break

Super Diversity Tour - The Bijlmer is a nursery for Dutch society and a laboratory for ways of living together. Themes and items that are urgent in the Bijlmer and South East are relevant for the city and the country as a whole. This tour provides a rich educational experience, while exploring inspiring projects of the area. 

Breakfast & Day Briefing
Amsterdam Underground Tour-  The walk follows a route and leads you past places that you will not easily find in the average travel guide. Your guide (a formerly homeless person) tell you their personal story during the walk, making each walk different.

Lunch Break

Public Housing Disparities and Homelessness - Meeting with local organizations TBD i.e. Start Foundation or Stichting Stoelenproject

Breakfast & Day Briefing
Scheepvaartmuseum - Water has shaped the Netherlands’ history. And in turn this affected faraway lands we traded to and from. The 'Dutch golden age’ was a rich time for leading country in maritime practices like map-making and naval warfare.

Lunch Break

Migration in Amsterdam East Tour - Head with us to the east side; a part of town with edges of ethnicity, religions and stories that converge in complex, fascinating ways. Topics on this tour range from WW2, to Amsterdam’s vast immigrant communities, and on to current day issues of racism and migration.

Breakfast & Day Briefing
Guided Tour Dolhuys Psychiatry Museum - Situated in a unique medieval building that for years sheltering the ‘insane’ and people with contagious diseases such as plague and leprosy. A museum bursting with personal stories, surprising art and an expansive historical collection, straddling the boundaries between healthcare, art and science.

Free Afternoon Cultural Immersion

Suggestion

Van Gogh Museum - Home to the world’s largest collection of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam transports visitors on a fascinating journey through the life of the artist and his contemporaries. 

Anne Frank House - Anne Frank House Tour - Experience the  story of Anne Frank through quotes, photos, videos, and original items. The atmosphere in the museum is authentic and subdued.

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Boerhaave Museum - The collections of National Museum Boerhaave reflect five centuries of the history of science and public health in the Netherlands.

Lunch Break

Cacaomuseum - The Cacaomuseum and its neighbourhood are the perfect place to know more about the fascinating history of cacao and chocolate, and to experience new surprising aspects of chocolate, such as painting

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Free Day & Cultural Immersion

Farewell Dinner & Program Closing

Breakfast & Day Briefing 

Airport Transfer

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