Christmas spirit

(English version below)

“Liefdadigheid is kinderen goed onderwijs te geven waardoor ze de kans krijgen onafhankelijk te worden van diezelfde liefdadigheid.”

Nu iedereen toch aan het doneren is voor Serious Request, waarom niet gelijk een paar eurootjes richting Stichting Bhavishya? ;)
Een derde donatie van 125 euro is in november overgemaakt en zoals gewoonlijk zijn ze daarvoor onzettend dankbaar! Dit bericht kreeg ik enkele weken geleden van Rajesh Kumar:

dear brother
how are you? we are fine here. all is going and all students are busy with their exam and i took some picture during the exam i am going to send those photos. yes i received your donation, thank you very much for your donation.
here is now too cold, please write me often
with best regard
Rajesh

We zitten nu met zijn allen in de kerstsfeer en dit staat vaak in het teken van het samenzijn met familie, vrienden en andere dierbaren. Maar natuurlijk gaat de Kerst ook over het helpen van anderen… het helpen van mensen die minder welvarend zijn dan ons. Ook de weeskinderen en arme kinderen van Bihar (India) verdienen een toekomst.

Dus doe iets goeds deze Kerst en steun Stichting Bhavishya door een donatie te doen op rekeningnummer 562022554

Elke bijdrage helpt!

Dankje,

Dennis


English

“Charity is giving children decent education in order to give them the opportunity to grow independent of that same charity. “

Now that everyone is donating to Serious Request anyway, why not send a few euro’s to the Bhavishya Foundation? ;)

A third donation of €125 has already been made in November and as usual they are very grateful for that!
I received the following message a few weeks ago from Rajesh Kumar:

dear brother
how are you? we are fine here. all is going and all students are busy with their exam and i took some picture during the exam i am going to send those photos. yes i received your donation, thank you very much for your donation.
here is now too cold, please write me often
with best regard
Rajesh

We are all in the "Christmas spirit" at the moment and often this symbolizes being together with family, friends and other loved ones. But of course Christmas is also about helping others…helping the people that are less fortunate than us. Also the orphan children and poor children of Bihar (India) deserve a future.

So do something good this Christmas and support the Bhavishya Foundation by donating to account number 562022554

Every little bit helps!

Thank you,

Dennis

They need more help!

Hey there!
Rajesh and his team joined forces with a Japanese NGO to start a new school in a village nearby, Manzar Village. The school is named "Under a Tree" The NGO will cover the costs of books, pens and the salary of the teacher for now. Rajesh and co. will be supervising the whole thing, meaning checking whether the school takes place regularly, how many children are coming, how the teacher is doing, and so on. But to ensure its future, more funds are necessary! So please help them out and give your donation to the Bhavisha Foundation. Even small amounts can be very useful because with only a few euro's they can buy so much! For an indication of some of the prices, look at one of the first stories of my blog (title: Transparency).
Or... you can go to Bodhgaya to help out, like my friend Benedikt did! He spend around 2 weeks there starting all kinds of new projects and just having fun with the children of the school, for example by going on a picknick with them (see pictures below). I'm very grateful to Franziska und Benedikt for helping the people in the villages around Bodhgaya.

Still enough things that need to be done though.
So keep on supporting the Bhavishya foundation so that I can make a third donation. And let's make it a big one this time! :)

Tweede donatie / Second donation!

Jaja, de tweede donatie is een feit! Als de banken hun werk doen komt er zo'n 72 euro komende week aan bij de school in India, bij kinderen die het nodig hebben. Nu staat er echter niets meer op de rekening dus blijf doneren mensen!

Ik heb onlangs enkele foto's ontvangen van de school. Ze hadden op 15 augustus een soort schoolviering waarbij de kinderen wat toneelstukjes opvoerden of hun verborgen dans- en zangtalent konden laten zien.  Onderaan dit bericht vindt je enkele foto's.

Binnenkort zal er bovendien een Duitse vriend van me daar wat vrijwilligerswerk doen. Zijn naam is Benedikt Alt, en is nu samen met zijn vriendin op reis door Nepal en India. Hopelijk kan hij het vinden!! India schijnt namelijk best groot te zijn..
Ook al is hij er nog niet en bestaat er natuurlijk een kans dat het niet allemaal loopt zoals gepland (wat niet zo vreemd is in India), ben ik hem nu al erg dankbaar! :)

Benedikt in Oranje outfit

English
Allright, so the second donation has been made! If the banks do what they're supposed to do, the school in India will receive around 72 euros next week. For them this is a lot of money and the good thing is that it goes to children that actually need it. However, the bank account of my foundation is pretty much empty now, so keep the donations coming!

Recently I received some pictures of my contact person at the school. They had some sort of celebration on August 15th in which the children did drama, music and dance performances. At the bottom you can see a few selected pictures of that day. 

Another nice announcement: Soon a German friend of mine will do some volunteering at the school. His name is Benedikt Alt and at the moment he is travelling through Nepal and India, together with his girlfriend who will also be helping out. Hopefully they can find it as I've heard India is pretty big...
Even though he is not there yet and there's still a chance that things don't work out the way they are planned (which is common in India), I'm already very grateful to him! :)

 

De eerste donatie is gemaakt! / The first donation has been send!

Jaja, het eerste geldbedrag is overgemaakt; 80 euro maar liefst! Dat staat gelijk aan zo'n 5000 roepies. Daar kun je echt ongelooflijk veel eten mee kopen in India!

Super bedankt voor degenen die Stichting Bhavishya steunen! Ik hoop dat er nog velen volgen :)
 
Het geldbedrag is inmiddels twee weken geleden gedoneerd. Hieronder staat de e-mail die ik op 19 juli ontving van de school. Rajesh werkt niet zo graag met leestekens maar daar moet je even niet op letten ;)

"respected brother, thanks for your help i got your donation amount is 5000 rs this money i use in fooding of stdents and i buy some note books. After this month school have a program it's call independence day it will on 15th of august in this day students will sing a national songs and i will invaite some guest they will come to see students program and after program evrybody eat sweets candy banana biscutes etc, for this program students will start to practise from 1august, i will send you some photos of students after the program. Thanks once a again for helping in our school. With best regards Rajesh"

Binnenkort komen er dus wat foto's deze kant op die ik hier ook zal plaatsen. Ik kan niet wachten!

Groetjes Dennis

English

The first donation is a fact! 80 euro's, which equals around 5000 rupees, which equals an incredible amount of food for the kids!

I want to thank the people that are supporting the Bhavishya Foundation so much! You're giving these kids a better future :)

The money was donated around two weeks ago, and as you can tell from the e-mail I got (look above) Rajesh is very happy with your donation!

Cheers,

Dennis

56.20.22.554

Wat een administratieve tijdsverspilling zeg.
De notaris, Kamer van Koophandel, de Belastingdienst, de bank. Alles duurt weken!
Maar nu staat Stichting Bhavishya eindelijk overal ingeschreven en heeft het ook een bankrekening geopend:


56.20.22.554


Deze nummercombinatie gaat een school in India hopelijk heel erg blij maken!


Wacht dus niet langer en stort nu je bijdrage op 56.20.22.554   t.a.v. Stichting Bhavishya
Voor 5 euro per maand helpt u al een kind naar school (Zie mijn vorige verhaal)

Maar vergeet niet, elke bijdrage helpt! :)

English

All this bureaucracy is a waste of time! The notary, Chamber of Commerce, IRS, the bank. Everything takes weeks! But finally the Bhavishya Foundation is registered everywhere and a bank account has been opened:

56.20.22.554
This combination of random numbers is hopefully going to make a lot of kids in India happy. So don't wait any longer and make your donation!
For even 5 euro's you can get one kid to school (see previous story).
But keep in mind, any support is welcome! :)