Some pics from Uganda

In Uganda on the 'quick visit'! And even a chance to have internet!!!

Here are a few quick pictures of the boys-house 1moreChild has started in September!













These boys are all street boys that dont have any family they could be staying with, so Harry and Hen (the newest members of 1moreChild) have started this house just a couple of months ago! The total of children that 1moreCHild sponsors is now of 62. And 12 of them live in this house, where they can experience a bit of a normal family structure. 1 mentor and 1 'mother' live with them - and honnestly - the boys seem to completely love it! They are now all in school, have all inproved their accademic performance, and are all motivated to give their best. Last night Harry and I met until 1am to discuss HOW we could get more people involved, and how we could communicate better what is happening with 1moreChild. I have been saying it for a while, but you will see a brand new website soon, where you can find everything you need to know about those amazing boys and girls we're able to help.

A toothbrush missing

Well we have a toothbrush missing in our bathroom not because we lost it but simply because Ferdi is in Uganda for the week-end.
A friend of us is a stewardess and somehow Ferdi was able to go along with her to Uganda... Not only did he got a really good price on his ticket but he was also traveling Business class... Pretty nice right! :-P
He has a full schedule ahead of him with some key few people to meet
Please keep him in your prayers

We surely do miss him around though...
Today "SinterKlaas" (St Nicholas) is arriving in Holland so Maelle and I are buzy... watching TV lol
May you all have a great week-end

trying for that perfect shot :)

So here are some pics we took to get that 'perfect family picture'.
How do people do that?! It took us 1,5 hours! Haha! Gotta love taking pictures with a 2 year old!
Thanks Els for your great work! It was fun!

Coffee with handicaped friends!

So fun! Once in a while you get to do something out of the ordinary! (well - ta and i get to do thosse things quite often). Today I arranged to do a COFFEE TESTING / TASTING session with a group of mentaly hanicaped guys! SO FUN! This will happen on Thursday November 19 in the center of Gouda.
We need to decide WHICH coffee these guys are going to serve in their OWN cafe! This cafe will be on the market in Gouda - an other top location for our top coffee!

Too bad there is no website of this caffee yet, because I would have loved to give you the link. It's going to be next Thursday the 19th. I'll be sure to make some pictures. The team of Kaars Koffie loves doing this kind of 'different' projects. Won't gain us any money - but I'm sure a lot of good memories for us and the guys that we'll be tasting with.

Photo shoot

Last Saturday we had an incredible time by a lady from the church (Els from the PGM) We went to her house for a special photo shoot of the van den Bergh Family. The weather was not the best but we surely had an awesome time... Thank you Els!

My Family from WiddlyTinks.com
Soon you will be able to see some of them in our next newsletter
May you all have a great week
God bless,

Working for Kaars Koffie

Working on a little project now where we want to give away 1500 'stroopwafels' in the city-center of Gouda - with a little card saying something along the lines: And now some good coffee.... come and get a free cup of espresso by 'de Waag'.
Fun to do some different projecst at the same time :)
http://www.shop.kaarskoffie.nl/

Tanie's Grand Aunty and Uncle came to visit

Past weekend we had some very special visitors. Tatiana's grand aunty and uncle came together with mama rosalie! It was great.

Enjoy the pictures of our coaching session: How to eat raw Haring... Part 4

I love aunty's face once she gets the taste of it...

Going to Uganda in 2 weeks!

Wanna hear a cool story, listen to this!

In November I wanted to go to Uganda BAD. I wanted to help with 1moreChild and the new upcoming changes. BUT i just got a ticket for Januari, so my funds were LOW... very low.
As I prepared my flight for Januari, I remembered an old friend of mine, Margriet Hooiveld. She works as a steward for KLM, and flies to Uganda reguarly. I called her, and we chatted a bit about our projects in Uganda. THAN SHE SAID: "Ferdi, if you want, you could come with me in November of December! A few times a year I am allowed to take a personal passenger with me, and this year I still have one ticket left. You pay about 200 euro - WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?"
Uhh - DUHHH! I want to go! AND NOW I'M GOING! November 13th! So very exciting.
Funny thing about Margriet is, that I've never met her at her house :) Only in New York City, Uganda and at a national television station! And now 'at her job', 3000 miles up in the air!
This little trip give me some change to do something fun for the kids of 1moreChild.

Last year we did our encouragment day. that seems a bit too much for this trip, but I do want to invest in some encouragement gifts... Gonna have to think about that...

During last years encouragement day, we gave all our orphans a school bag with supplies.

Bunnies at the farm!

Went to the childrens-farm the other day... Fun Fun Fun!

'Lenster in Action' or 'My big brother at work'

This past week I went to see my brother on a seminar he's teaching at.
It's a dutch on-line community of a web-buisness-book - cutting edge in it's approach. Too bad you can't ever find out if you're not dutch (Meindert - you don't have to translate this
sentence).

Anyway - it was nice to see my big brother at work. As always he seems to be able to state his case in a 'light' but 'definite' way. 10 points.

Nice detail, the seminar was given at the training facilities of the Dutch Soccer team

. Nice to get a glimpse of that in the process.