Sat Kathpalia, a UvA student and the manager of Green Office, stated that his organization planned the clothing swap and the sustainability workshop, while the CSR organized the rest. During the clothing swap, students could bring clothes that they no longer wore or needed and could exchange it for a “new” piece of clothing. Whatever was left at the end of the night was donated. The sustainability workshop asked students to divide into groups, create their own company and come up with ways to make it sustainable. At the end of the workshop, each group gave a short pitch of their ideas on sustainability and the group with the best pitch won a reusable bamboo coffee cup.
There was also a workshop given by members of Turtle, a mental health company which provides a platform for people who are facing psychological challenges. According to their website, they do this “by matching people who have the same struggles, the same fights and the same scars.” In the workshop, students were asked to discuss what they thought were the most common psychological challenges that people between the ages of 20 and 35 face and why. The most recurring answers were: depression, burn-out and loss of a family member.