OUR Thanks To

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All the people who we want to thank.
 

It is almost impossible to personally thank everyone. 
There are so many people and companies who have in one way or another helped so far with our mission’s success.

Mama Şerife for what is now the water from the tap at Mariama.      

Many thanks to the WOMEN FOR PEACE of the SNUFFELPAND from Ridderkerk/slikkerveer thank you very much for your donation of €2,500 for the skill centre. We have seen how hard you have to work to earn this amount.  We will do the same thing in Gambia.    

Fam B from NURIMPEX.NL, especially for all the beads and yarn where the 9^th grade girls of  the Upper Basic will become involved in decorating their own clothing in their crafts lessons.  Also thank you very much for all the underwear that you provided from your store.

Our friend Muazzez who relieved us on the Arab school project in Penyem. This school collapsed during the rainy season 2009 and it doesn’t look good. 

Muazzez is now in the process to raise funds for the school.

Thank you so much Muazzez, now we have our hands and heads free for the other projects. We are also pleased that you are going to Gambia next time.

Many thanks to Eleanor’s team from Elsevier Reed Amsterdam.  www.elsevier.com

The amount you raised with the book fair will ensure that the construction of the skill centre will be finished ahead of schedule.         

The truckload of small children's clothing that you collected will ensure that our next visit to Penyem that there will be lots of well dressed children walking around. We know that there was a huge amount of work on both of these projects. So to all of you
A BIG THANK YOU.     
 

Annet’s girlfriend from Eindhoven, whose employer, Triumph, gave us bras and panties to take with us.
Unfortunately,  we can not show you more pictures due to the privacy of the ladies.

R.K St Joseph elementary school from Rijen for the hundreds of t-shirts. With our next visit all the children will be walking around in your t-shirts
                                                                                                                           

Everyone who went and reacted to www.marktplaats.nl  for handmade materials and the used hand tools or books: Aukje, Ankie, Anne, Beppie, Brit, Corrie, Eleanor, Evelien, Fam de Graaff, Heather, Jan and Peggy, John, Jose, Peter, Petra, Ragga, Sjan, Ursula, Jan and Elizabeth. You all have contributed to a large extent for the content of the container.  Thank you so much for the good materials that can be used that you were able to obtain and for the packages that you just sent to us.

Marie Jose, Jos, Mari, and Marianne from Aarle Rixtel, after placing an ad in their local newspaper collected more than 1 large trailer full with all kinds of handicraft material which were driven our way. 

Bennie Ahlers for the correct shipping all our bananas boxes full of stuff.   ahlerszonweringen@zonnet.nl

Wilma from Elburg for the sewing workshop and for the enormous amounts of cloth material or what you like to call  "your old stock".
The women and girls in Penyem are very happy with it.
                                                                          
 

A sewing factory from Dieren for the enormous amounts of buttons, zippers, yarn and band.
This was also from the "old" inventory that we could pick up.
But old is new in the Gambia and in combination with the materials from Wilma and sewing machines from Aarle Rixtel, the women and girls can create a lot of beautiful things.

Eleanor and her team for those so necessary things like pens, pencils, notebooks, books and so on and so forth.  www.elsevier.com

The paint store in Vlaardingen, thank you for all the paint. The colors are not quite what we want here in Holland but all colors are welcome in the Gambia.

Marijke for the ointment for small Ellen.

Colleagues from the Municipality of Vlaardingen. Thanks for all your clothing, shoes, handicraft materials, sheets and for paying the overweight charge but, above all, for your patience and listening to my stories. And to all my colleagues who are now sponsoring a child for school, I would like to thank from the bottom of my heart.

Company Fontijne Grotnes from Vlaardingen www.fontijnegrotnes.com for your financial donation and for the space and time that our container was allowed to be on your site. And to all the colleagues for all the dress shoes and interest but also for the content of your collection pot.

Colleagues from the Griffijn Company in Vlaardingen for the enormous amount of clothes, shoes and all the material that we have received from you. Piet, for sponsoring 2 school boys in Penyem.
I would also like to thank the management www.griffijn.nl for all the assistance you have provided to us. This has been invaluable for us.

Matenloos, A. Spijkers from Eindhoven, for all the great women's shoes and slippers.  

John and his wife from Vlaardingen for the special tool box and toothpaste.

Jeroen and his mother.

Jan and Mieke for your materials and financial donations.

Yankuba and Natu of www.gambiasportsponsoring.nl for your financial donations, but also for the football kits for Penyem.
Thank you very much for your friendship and warm feelings for Penyem.

Ellen and Gerrit for your excellent cooperation and your friendship and all the hours that we talked about "our" Gambia.

Aad and Ria vd W from Vlaardingen for all condoms, clothes, shoes, sheets and donations.

Camping Association DSS in Oostvoorne. Thank you all again for sponsoring 3 children for school and I would like to thank you guys for doing the annual lottery. Hope that the skill centre is quickly ready so that your play area becomes operational. Thanks Gonnie and Hans for all their efforts.

Many thanks to all the dear people who are sponsors of a child for school for the last several years.

Our son Rick www.brandbroekenerkens.nl and daughter-in-law Esther for your financial donations and all the occurrences of removal and retrieval
Esther thank you for all the translations .

Our daughter Christa for paying one of our trips. We were able to pay Gambia an extra visit.
Our son in law Martin www.bigwall.nl for taking us to the airport, with too much luggage.

Most of you, we have to thank you for all your patience and time to listen to our stories.

THANK YOU ALL
 

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