According to the Central Bureau of Statistics 15 percent of Rotterdammers live in poverty. In 2019 and 2020, Commissioned in 2019 by the Rotterdam city council and in collaboration with Camping Onbestemd, we ran 10 designathon workshops about poverty with 164 Rotterdams children. In the workshops, children learned about different forms of poverty, came up with ideas, and made prototypes to solve the problems around poverty among Rotterdam city families. 


In September 2020, children from the Nelson Mandela school in Rotterdam met with Michiel Grauss (Alderman for Poverty Reduction, Debt Management and Informal Care, Rotterdam) to present him with a report on the insights and ideas of the participating children to tackle poverty in Rotterdam. The aim is to share the perspective and the voice of children towards influencing policy-making around poverty in Rotterdam. You can download the report here (in Dutch).