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• A daughter for Mary Ann!

  Created: Thursday, 27 May 2010 03:02

  Tuesday Mary Ann, the mentally handicapped girl from Lazareto, gave birth to a healthy daughter.   The baby was born by cesarean surgery. She weighs 2,8 kilograms and she is 18 inches long. As far as we can see at this moment the many epileptic seizure...

• Fahrni Family

  Created: Thursday, 06 May 2010 07:09

  We are a family from Switzerland with a 5-year old son, Elischa, and a one and half year old daughter, Jolina. We took the chance this spring to visit Hanspeter's sister and her family in the Philippines for three months, before Elischa has to go to kinde...

• Medals

  Created: Thursday, 22 April 2010 08:32

  In the Philippines the summer holidays started in April. At the end of the school year it is a tradition in the Philippines to hand out medals to the most successful students. Sparrow is proud to let you know that seven of her sponsor children have  r...

• Christmas

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:40

  For the children in Lazareto, Christmas is not a celebration with delicious food and presents. Therefore Sparrow wanted to organize a Christmas celebration for her sponsor children. A celebration with a narration of the Christmas story, Christmas songs ...

• Sparrow builds meeting place in Lazareto

  Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 10:17

  Near the beach, in the middle of the neighbourhood Lazareto, Sparrow has built a meeting place. This building is meant to be a place where the people of Lazareto can come whenever they like. Lazareto is one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Calapan. The ma...

• Campaign “Six weeks holiday! What are you going to do before you go back to school?”

  Created: Wednesday, 01 July 2009 03:00

  During the summer holidays in the Netherlands Sparrow started a large text messaging campaign "Six weeks holiday! What are you going to do before you go back to school?". Lots of children in the Netherlands think of school as something you must do, a dail...

• Promotional movie for the scholarship program

  Created: Wednesday, 13 May 2009 11:55

  Promotional movie for the scholarship program Sparrow has made a promotional movie for its scholarship program. The movie gives an impression of life in barangay Lazareto, the neighborhood where we carry out the scholarship program. Lazareto is one of ...

• Two hundred children apply for a Sparrow scholarship in barangay Lazareto

  Created: Friday, 10 April 2009 08:06

  Two hundred children apply for a Sparrow scholarship in barangay Lazareto   On Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th of April parents and their children from barangay Lazareto could apply for the scholarship program. Right from the start of Tuesday morning it ...