by Remco Pijper | Nov 19, 2010 | News
The Reformed Church in Twijzelerheide has organized a sponsored run and a fancy fair. Fifty percent of the profit was donated to Sparrow. The sponsored run was a difficult course of, among other things, a sack race, crawling under a canvas and walking very carefully...
by Remco Pijper | Oct 22, 2010 | Medical Fund, News
Ronlee, a six year old boy, drove with his father on the tricycle. Unfortunately his foot was caught in the wheel, which resulted in a large infected wound on his foot. We brought Ronlee to the hospital to make an X-ray. This showed there were no fractures in his...
by Remco Pijper | Oct 21, 2010 | Medical Fund, News
Glyn Xyra’s parents brought her to our office. Sitting in the tricycle she was crying because of abdominal pain and severe diarrhea. The pediatrician prescribed several medications and Glyn Xyra recovered in a few days. The abdominal pain and the diarrhea are probably...
by Remco Pijper | Aug 23, 2010 | News, Visitors
We are Hans and Annemarie and we have worked with Sparrow for a week. After a flight from Amsterdam to Manila, a drive from Manila to Batangas by car and a boat trip from Batangas to the island of Oriental Mindoro we arrived in Calapan City, where Remco and Ellie...
by Remco Pijper | Aug 10, 2010 | Bible Studies, News, Open Office
Like every Tuesday we held our Open Office today in barangay Lazareto. Since three weeks, on the request of the community, we also do a little Bible Study together. Today the subject was 2 Corinthians 1: 3-11: “the God of all comfort”. We talked about...
by Remco Pijper | Aug 3, 2010 | News
I was born in Mindanao and presently residing at Baco, Oriental Mindoro, 15 minutes drive to Sparrow Foundation office. I’m the sixth sibling among eight. I graduated at the Divine Word College of Calapan, Oriental Mindoro, taken up Bachelor of Arts major in History....
