by Remco Pijper | May 6, 2010 | News, Visitors
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 kindergarten...
by Ellie Pijper | May 3, 2010 | News
To finance its medical projects Sparrow organized a: SCRAP METAL CAMPAIGN You can bring your scrap metal to the Kuzemerweg 24 in Oldekerk or contact Bertwillem Renkema, phonenumber: 06-13698267. Sparrow is a Dutch Christian organization, which was founded by Remco and...
by Remco Pijper | May 1, 2010 | News
End poverty by 2015. This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the “Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).” The MDGs are an...
by Ellie Pijper | Apr 30, 2010 | News
On Sunday May 9th, 2010 there will be a praise service in the PKN Ontmoetingskerk in Marum, for Sparrow. The theme is “Meeting God, the other nearby and far away.” During this service we will meet several people in Lazareto with the help of story’s, a movie and...
by Remco Pijper | Apr 2, 2010 | Medical Fund, News
Ramil was hospitalized in a hurry, because he was vomiting blood. Medical examination learned he has open tuberculosis. Ramil’s family is very poor. When they had to take him to a hospital in a hurry, they could only bring him to a public hospital. While the medical...
by Remco Pijper | Mar 26, 2010 | Medical Fund, News
During a home visit in Lazareto on Friday March 26 we met Diane, a 5-year old girl. The week before she fell off a chair and broke her arm. Their parents cannot afford medical care so the situation got rather worse the next week. Her elbow was swollen and she had a...
