January 26, 2022: The Rotary Club Noordwijk eo donates € 2,500 to Ton Memorial School in Nepal
A wonderful start to the new year!
In the photo: (from left to right) incoming chairman Ron Krom, Jan Post and chairman Marc Broere, at the presentation of the check in the Huis ter Duin clubhouse.
From the website Rotary Noordwijk eo
The club had previously donated to the construction of a school in Sailung in Nepal and was therefore updated for the third time on the progress of the project. And what progress! The school has been built and is in use.
The school is strikingly bright blue. And that looks pretty nice, especially when the sky is clear. In addition, the paint, it was about 700 liters, is a donation. From a regional paint factory.
Jan Post told his impressive story.
In what is a very remote part of Nepal (140 kilometers east of the capital Kathmandu), a school has been built, through which children receive an education and thus the whole region in general benefits.
Now that the school is here, there will be more initiatives. For example, a small hospital is being built. Nowadays a bus stops and there is a shop. And a heli-platform is being built.
A more or less doomed region, where life was so difficult and also so hopeless that many left for the city, suddenly has a future again. Thanks to Ton van den Brink, who unfortunately passed away in 2018, whose work has been continued by his friend Jan Post from Sassenheim.
Check out this site and consider donating. If there's one place where your money is well spent, it's there: https://www.sailung.nl/
And the great thing is that the entire project does not require enormous amounts of money to pay off. For example, the club donated another € 2,500 this evening and the emotional Jan Post announced that he could now call them in Sailung to say that the carpet for the classrooms could be ordered…
It is a poor region and many parents cannot afford education. There is therefore also a pot for which the reader can contribute. Anyway, check out the site and be amazed at how beautiful it all is.
