The Netherlands: “Six Dutch students have chosen to live in a yellow-brick home in Deventer in the eastern Netherlands as part of a unique project that benefits everyone. The university students pay no rent and in exchange spend at least 30 hours a month with some of the 160 elderly who live here, doing the things professional staff cannot always do — such as just hanging out.” Read more here.
Cleveland, Ohio: Twenty-four-year-old Melissa Plank lives in a one-bedroom apartment in a nursing home. She and two other students at the Cleveland Institute of Music live rent-free in the home in exchange for monthly performances at Judson Manor. “In America, we segregate ourselves as much by the date on our driver’s license as the color of our skin. But by reaching across the ages, the residents of Judson Manor have discovered something about people on the opposite end of the timeline — that they’re worth the time.” Read more here.
