Speak Up World Foundation · Amsterdam Zuidoost

We create spaces to talk, heal, learn, change.

Knowledge and impact organisation from Amsterdam Zuidoost, since 2017. We create safe spaces for conversations about racism, the colonial and slavery past, and mental health.

Work with us What we do

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Impact you can count

Illustrative figures; to be replaced with real data

16.000+

people reached through events, trainings and programmes

2017

started in a living room, a foundation since 2022

80+

events, workshops and exhibitions organised

25+

partners: museums, schools, municipalities and funds

What we do

Awareness is the basis for change

Healing & wellbeing

Safe spaces, healing programmes and intergenerational dialogues about the colonial and slavery past and its impact today.

Education & knowledge

Learning tracks, trainings and guest lessons for education, government and organisations: from arts curricula to tailored corporate trainings.

Structural change

Policy advice and activism for inclusion and justice, so change doesn't stop at awareness.

Services

At your organisation's request

Tailored trainings & workshops (also in English)
Curation & exhibitions
Chairs, moderators & minute-takers
Advice on inclusion & multivocality

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Programmes

Our own formats, developed in-house

Echoes of the Past Mind Moves Erfgoed Ontgrendeld CKV: 4 The Youth

All programmes

For schools

History that isn't in the textbook

Guest lessons, arts programmes and citizenship education about shared history, identity and multivocality, developed by pedagogues, psychologists and artists.

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