Newsletter - September 2018
After a hot and dry summer we have started again. We met each other again for a barbeque after the summer holidays on 25th August. This has become a tradition on the Saturday after the Fair in Wervershoof (Kermis). The weather was not ideal but we enjoyed ourselves none the less. At the moment there are three requests for support waiting for us. I will return to that in a next letter.
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Just a short review.
The project of Wouter de Groot in Nepal has been completed. The community center is finished and the people have gone to different places. Through the link below you get a good idea of what has been realised.
https://www.facebook.com/4APNepal/videos/850130531840001/
Anne de Vries has made an application on behalf of children's home Bahay Aurora in the Philippines.
"The Philippines is a country with great inequalities and because of this there is also severe poverty. The many street children in the country are a result of the socio-economic problems that the country knows. Herke Smidstra and Arleen Smidstra-Santiago have been running a children's home for more than 25 years to contribute to improving the situation of these children.
Bahay Aurora is a place where former street children and orphans are cared for. In the orphanage they are taken care of by a team of professional house parents and social workers, and they receive a full meal three times a day, go to school and receive (medical) care.
I, Anne de Vries from Enkhuizen, worked 3.5 years ago for a few months at the children's home, gave music lessons, performed a Christmas musical, and helped to improve the volunteer policy.
I have seen with my own eyes how much good the management, the employees and all donors and supporting organizations bring about. Not only does Bahay Aurora provide the basic needs of every person and child, but the children's home is a great place for the children to grow up. The house parents give each child the attention they need to develop into disciplined and confident young people, the means to develop creatively and to take part in sports, and the possibility of being a real child.
This year Auxilia-Brasili-ja is supporting a project to bring the sports and games stock up to standard, to place a life-sized chess game, and to install ‘beweegtegels’(tiles to stimulate movement). This will more than benefit the well-being of the children. Maraming salamat po sa contributions ninyo!
On Sunday 1st July there was a summer market in Wervershoof. Of course we were also there. In addition to the worldly performance of Martijn (cycling from 11 am to 4 pm and then arriving at 200 km) people could also throw darts at water balloons. The proceeds went to Bahay Aurora.
For the coming years there are various things in the planning. 2019 will be a relatively quiet year. The following year, 2020, will be a bit busier. At the beginning of April we will organise another "Worldly Tastes" and in August at the fair in Wervershoof there will be another ice block in the garden of the vicarige.
Yours sincerely
Kees Ooijevaar (secretary)
