The dinner was incredibly enjoyable, even though we didn’t speak each other’s language, but Google Translate helped us with that. We were mostly able to communicate clearly to each other,…
Experiences Come & Eat
Eating together is the perfect basis for meeting new people. This certainly applies to the Come & Eat dinners, where residents of Utrecht and the surrounding area invite refugees from the emergency shelter in Utrecht as dinner guests.
Our initiative enables hosts to get to know the people behind the news stories. Refugees meet Dutch people and get to know about their language and culture. Read here about the special experiences from some of our participants.
It was a fun experience! We ate Iranian food and played many games of UNO. We will keep in touch with the family and will also teach the boys how…
I was so happy to be there. At first, I thought it would be difficult to go into a Dutch person’s home and that they didn’t like refugees. But as…
We had a very nice, pleasant evening. We would like to host this family more often and provide additional support, if possible, for example with extra language lessons.
t was our first time participating, so we had indicated that we only wanted to invite adults. Just to be sure, we had already installed Google Translate on our mobile…
Had a very nice evening! We had an (Egyptian) family with mother, father and daughter (25) over for the first time. Lots of chatting and laughing. Enjoyed each other’s company….
We were very happy with this invitation. The food was delicious, the lady also invited us to come again and then cook together. We exchanged phone numbers and she told…
We planned in plenty of time and picked up three male guests from Syria and Yemen at 2pm (the women and children stayed at the shelter). After tea with lots…
I had a visit from a lady and her 12-year-old son, who is a keen learner. They both spoke very good English. I had chosen a recipe and bought all…
It was very pleasant. We cooked rice with chicken together, which was very tasty. We also made apple pie together and we were given the leftovers to take with us….