by Remco Pijper | Dec 30, 2009 | Bible Studies, News, Scholarship Program
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 and funny...
by Remco Pijper | Dec 3, 2009 | Medical Fund, News
Marie Jose is a 7-months old baby. On December 2, 2009 he has been hospitalized in a hurry, because of dehydration and diarrhea which has been lasting several weeks now. Besides this his mouth and intestines are infected, so he is not able to eat solid food. Marie...
by Remco Pijper | Sep 4, 2009 | Medical Fund, News
At this moment Juliet (45 years old) is waiting for a surgery. She is a mother of 13 children. After four miscarriages she did not get any medical care and a lot of blood remained in the womb. This caused a benign tumor in her womb. Lately this tumor is growing...
by Remco Pijper | Aug 7, 2009 | News
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 main part of...
by Remco Pijper | May 13, 2009 | News, 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 the poorest barangays in Calapan. In the movie Henry Fortu...
by Remco Pijper | Apr 10, 2009 | News, Scholarship Program
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 was very busy and some mothers had to wait the whole day before they could fill in the...