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The Garden · A story of collaboration

A story that brings together what addiction tore apart

Three organisations brought together a room that knew why it was there: OVOM, Rise4Life, Moedige Moeders. The Garden is the story of that room. And a question for you: will you join?

  • The full story as free eBook (PDF)
  • Background on the Eindhoven Declaration
  • An invitation to join the network

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Born during "Wake-up, Drug-Free is the Key"

On 20 and 21 March 2025, in Eindhoven, experts, affected families, grassroots organisations and youth organisations came together. Two days later there was a story they shaped themselves. The Garden. And the garden is still growing.

Co-organiser OVOM
Co-organiser Rise4Life
Co-organiser Moedige Moeders

What you receive

The Garden is more than a story. It's an invitation to join a network standing up for every child's right to a drug-free environment.

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The full story

The allegory of The Garden as PDF eBook, the story of the community that came together in Eindhoven.

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The Eindhoven Declaration

Background, context and the seven recommendations, available in eight languages.

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Updates from the network

How organisations worldwide collaborate with OVOM, Moedige Moeders and partners, and how you can join.

The Garden allegory — diverse hands tending the shared soil together

A garden asks for shared gardening

Addiction never touches one person alone. It touches families, communities, whole societies. And in that same society lies what brings a person back.

The Garden gives that truth an image. A soil that becomes exhausted asks for many hands. A garden in which something grows again is never the work of one gardener. It is the work of a network that stands up together.

We don't do prevention. We don't do education. That's the work of OVOM, Moedige Moeders and the partners around them. Rise4Life does one thing: make the network visible. Build awareness. So they have more room to do their work.

Roots grasp each other beneath the surface. Together unbreakable. Alone fragile.

FROM THE GARDEN · CHAPTER 1

After The Garden · the next step

Sign the Eindhoven Declaration

The Garden is a story. The Declaration is a signature. Two movements. One direction. For every child's right to a drug-free environment. Anchored in Article 33 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We didn't write this down. The world wrote this down. Now we ask if you'll sign too.

195 of 10,000 signatures

Sign the Declaration Or become a Rise4Life volunteer →