Helen ten Hoeve - From 2000 intern and day-coordinator of the walk-in centre, from 2011 coordinator of Informal Care
"I started as an intern at the Tabe Rienks House in 2000. We had a lot of contact with the neighborhood police officer, Dick Eenhuizen it was then. He regularly came by for a cup of coffee or tea. And then he would play checkers with the boys. They didn't talk about catching criminals or about outstanding sentences, but it was just a moment to play a game together and talk about everything.
The man in the photo was a regular visitor to the user space. Years after I worked at the walk-in centre, I ran into him once downtown. I was pregnant with my youngest son at the time, which is 18 years ago now. He saw me on the street and called out, "Hey Helen, are you pregnant? So I said, "Yes!", and he responded with: "It's not mine, is it! That was actually very funny. I had this kind of thing with him more often. Visitors to walk-in centres are often very nice people.
What I like about The Regenboog is that for all the staff and volunteers: you walk up with someone for a while, and you see someone for who they are. Without judging."
Haling with the visitor