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04/12/2009 Ezekiel Pobanz had the main responsibility over our first own project as a team and he also came up with the idea what we could do, where and with whom. We started to organise it around two and a half weeks before the actual date it was planned to take place. The idea was to create calendars and cards with elderly people, which they could give as gifts to their grandchildren or other people on Sinterklaas. |
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 Hello everyone!!! I want to share with you about the beautiful experience that we had Tuesday, 10November 2009. Oh 10 November 2009...November...oh my I didn't realize that the time goes so quickly...but I don't want to talk about time now, maybe another time ^^. Right now I want to talk about the project that we had here in Rotterdam at the "Restaurant BASTA"
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A few of us from YSI Utrecht have been in contact with an elderly home in Transwijk. We’ve had a couple of meetings with the activities manager Mikkie and Cooking an English breakfast was the first project we came up with. This was perfect for an English man such as myself.
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18th Nov. 2009 A 450 hecta country estate belongs to the Kasteel de haar, the biggest castle in the Netherlands. It's history goes back more than 100 years ago. So it's important to the people living there, as well as the property itself, that it's kept in good shape. Since it's such a big estate, it's not surprising that it's difficult for the people to upkeep it. That's where we join the story. |
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As we made our way to the grounds of the festival we immediately knew we were in the right place with the sight of red and white tents, the sound of children laughing, smell of food on the grill and a bigwelcome from the man in charge, Ed. Ed De Meyer is a social worker from the organization Sonor and is very active in creating projects with youth. |
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The YSI Rotterdam team spent their Halloween night not reciting lines of “trick or treat,” for the only door to door doings we partakein is the fundraising kind, we had the opportunity to assist in a festival forthe neighborhood kids of Rotterdam.
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Two groups of new YSI volunteers have arrived!
For another year, they'll continue service work in Rotterdam and Utrecht.
Read about each of them on the blogs! |
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Photograph Exhibition Saturday 25th July 2009 Culmination of a three week project to connect Youth with the Elderly
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Upcoming Charity Concert!
On the 25th of July, several bands will rock the Paper Dome in Utrecht for Ghana. The benefit will go to next years Service Project in Tamale, Ghana.
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