With hearts filled with joy we think back to the successful information meeting on April 9th. We like to thank everybody for coming and other signs of support. It is so encouraging to see we are not walking this road alone! [nggallery id=2][...]
Archive for May, 2011
What motivates me – Jan
I’m not very familiar with poetry, but when I read the poem Spiritual by Remco Campert, a Dutch author, a few years ago, it touched me. I don’t know how he meant it, but for me it describes how I experience the calling of God. It is a deep inner conviction. The road might be […][...]
Mother and childcare in Senegal
The need for care during a pregnancy and the delivery is something I have experienced myself. Good medical care in the Netherlands is a right, but a luxury in big parts of the world. Without this care I would have most likely not survived my first delivery. And without proper medication to stop cont[...]
Talibe Children
In the colorful city center of Rotterdam one can see on the front of a building the famous line from a poem of the Dutch poet Lucebert: “Everything of value is defenseless”. And what is more precious than the life of a child? Precious, but also defenseless. Entrusted to parents to take care of t[...]