Johan, 76.

There was a time when Johan fixed things. Clocks, watches, timepieces - tiny gears. Now he just waits.

Each month, he stretches his pension like it’s elastic. But it always snaps before the month ends. The supermarket gets more expensive, the meds cost more and the bus ticket feels like a luxury.

He sits on the same bench every day, phone in hand, though no one calls. Just another man in a suit too old to impress anyone.

Johan didn’t ask for much. Just enough to live with dignity. But this city -this economy- has no memory for the hands that built it.

ALKOTÓ x Stichting Goud stand with those the system no longer sees.

When we don’t care, old age becomes punishment, not peace.