Autumn has come and our festival season has come to an end. We are preparing again to go to Lombok. Over the last months we had to search a lot to find back all the mail addresses from the sponsors. The last one we found just 3 weeks ago. We still had this problem because we were hacked in January. Thanks to every one for sending your full address to us. This is not going to happen to us again (I hope). So for now we almost got all de donations for this year.
Autumn has come and our festival season has come to an end. We are preparing again to go to Lombok. Over the last months we had to search a lot to find back all the mail addresses from the sponsors. The last one we found just 3 weeks ago. We still had this problem because we were hacked in January. Thanks to every one for sending your full address to us. This is not going to happen to us again (I hope). So for now we almost got all de donations for this year.
Here is some information from Lombok:
- 2 girls, who finished High-school are now going to Belindo. This school is a project of the Dutch foundation: “Stichting het schone streven”. This school has an one year education for boys and girls in the Tourist branch. The school is for free and for 90% the children get a job when they are finished. We are very happy, that they could go to this school.
- One girl started a one year education at a bank. The training is rather expensive, but the sponsor will pay a part and the family will pay for the rest.
- 4 people have finished the university. We are very proud of them.
We notice that the children of parents, who cannot read or write themselves, stop after elementary school.
We compare this a bit with the old days. Parents think this education is enough and want their children to get a
job and help the family. We cannot and will not force anybody.
On this moment the situation is as follows:
- 48 children are visiting the elementary school
- 21 children are visiting the junior high school
- 22 children are visiting high school
- 5 children are visiting university or another one year education.
So on this moment the project is supporting 96 children.
Also in the Netherlands we get a lot of support:
- Foundation: “Boeken steunen mensen” from Venlo-Blerick took care of the the donation to make the bemo drive for another six months. We thank you for this. We keep seeking for a solution for the bemo, because it is used a lot for emergencies, like transport to the hospital and we use it also for the garbage project.
- The firm “Schoonenberg” from Venray made a donation of 5 hearing aids. We are very happy that we can use it to help hearing-impaired children or older people. Thank you!!
- Also the foundation “Het Zonnelied” from Venray, who collect money by selling second things and donate to many foundations, helped us with a donation. Herewith we can give more medicine support. While enjoying a cup of coffee, we were allowed to tell them how we will spend the money. Thank you very much.
- Then there is Golf club Amigo who is supporting us already for a while. Not only are they helping 2 boys to go to school, but also giving us extra support. Thank you Wim Brinkers and everybody, who is involved.
- Old-colleague Jan Aerts went to Lombok for a holiday, joint by his wife Ria and friends Rob and Hennie. Back in the Netherlands, they decided to give their leftover rupiahs to the project. Thank you dear friends.
- Marcel Jeuken is a big fan from Indonesia and from the project (he knows al the reports almost by every word ha-ha). He gave us spontaneously a donation, when we saw him. Thanks Marcel, see you some day in Lombok!
- We don’t want tot forget the dear friends who visited us at home or on the festivals and didn’t leave without a donation. We are blessed with people like you.
- We also got a message from Cuk, that our anonymous sponsor Mr. Bob visited the kampong again and left a donation for the project. Thanks Mr. Bob. We hope some day we will meet you.
- Also we went, together with our ambassador Wim and his beloved Wife Joyce, to restaurant “In den Engel” in Venray, Again we could receive a donation from Carla and Peter. It was the volunteer contribution for using the toilet. Amazing how much we got. Terima kasih dear people of “In den Engel”. You are really angels.
- Wim also give us a big amount of bal pens, donated by the Rabobank and Schade-Net Venlo-Venray. This is so nice!
Another few weeks to go and then we leave for our dear Lombok again. Already 2 times we had to short our stay, so hopefully we can stay for 4 months this time and learn en see more about this beautiful country, people and culture. It’s still amazing. We leave for Bangkok, Thailand on the 25th of November and hope to arrive in Lombok on the 3rd of December. For pictures look at our face book site under: Proyek Kampung Loco. The reports will still be only in Dutch, sorry for that.
We notice that still some people don’t get our mails our we don’t receive all mails. Please check if you have the right address now. It looks a lot like the old one. Not really smart of us:
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On face book you will find us under: Proyek Kampung Loco of under Marjke Joep.
Remains just to thank everybody for al the donations. Our sponsors, whom without we couldn’t help the children, but also all the people who donate spontaneously
Many people just talk about how things should go, but you really do something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TERIMA KASIH THANK YOU
Spell for this time:
IF YOU WANT TOT FEEL RICH, JUST COUNT THE THINGS YOU HAVE THAT MONEY CAN’T BUY.
