Streetlife app
De Regenboog Groep has been publishing the Blue Booklet for years. It is a guidebook with practical information for surviving on the streets of Amsterdam. The information from the Blue Booklet is now also available through the Streetlife app. The app is available for Android and Apple and is free for anyone to download, homeless people and social workers. (Link in this article).
Find your way on the streets with the Streetlife app
Do you find yourself homeless is Amsterdam? Then you have to find your way in a new world. Where can you shower, eat and get clean clothes? Can you register for social shelter or permanent housing? Where can you find social work, medical and psychological care? Through the Streetlife app, the offerings are now always at your fingertips. The basis of the app is a map. With this you can easily find your way through the streets of the city, until you are literally at the aid or service on the sidewalk.
Download the Streetlife app
In De Regenboog Groep's walk-in centres, most visitors have smartphones. This is not surprising, because without the Internet it is difficult to survive. Many important matters can only be arranged online. It is also nice for social workers if clients can be reached, precisely because they have no address and can therefore be anywhere in the city.
For our homeless fellow city residents with a smartphone, there is the Streetlife app. For others, the paper social map (better known as the Blue Booklet) will continue to exist. The Blue Booklet can be ordered for organizations from the Repro of De Regenboog Groep.
Your information in the app
Does your organization have offerings that are important to people surviving on the streets? If so, we'd like to mention it in the app. Because we want the help that's out there to reach the people it's intended for.
Send your information to: socialekaart@deregenboog.org
Streetlife was made possible in part by Jeroen Goeman Borgesius (Enjoy My City)