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The mound beneath the Burcht was raised in phases around the year 1000 as a refuge from high water and eventually built up to twelve metres — older than the city that grew around it, but a mound and not a building.

asielzoekers en ongedocumenteerden

De Bakkerij runs Makaazi Ya Imani, a shelter with four rooms for emergency stays, and together with Leiden's churches takes in asylum seekers from Ter Apel. Help also reaches undocumented people and labour migrants who fall through every provision there is; the Comité Ondersteuning Ongedocumenteerden Leiden — the city's committee for the support of the undocumented — works out of this building.

van 425 naar 5.000

The Walloon congregation was made up of Huguenots from France and Wallonia who had fled for reasons of faith and had been holding services in Leiden since the 1570s. From 1584 the Vrouwekerk was their main church; in 1638 this chapel became a second church for the fast-growing congregation. It had 425 members in 1584 and five thousand by 1643.

Defence for Children

Defence for Children Nederland works out of this building and offers free legal support to children through its Children's Rights Helpdesk. Alongside that the organisation works on structural improvements to children's rights in law, regulation and policy. Its work is divided across three themes: family, migration and sexual exploitation — three very different groups of children with very different needs.