by Ellie Pijper | Aug 7, 2012 | News
This week Michael came to us. He asked us to join him to get his wage. He had been working on a chicken farm for some weeks, but his boss refused to pay his salary. Michael told us he was not satisfied with his job at the chicken farm and that he told the people at...
by Ellie Pijper | Jul 11, 2012 | News, Scholarship Program
In the Philippines the new school year has begun and we are happy to be able to bring all last year’s sponsor children to school again. A couple of students often skipped school and after several warnings we decided to stop their sponsoring. Because of this we were...
by Ellie Pijper | May 26, 2012 | News, Scholarship Program
On June 4th the Philippine school year starts again. We do not have fixed sponsors for each student yet, but we trust that we can arrange this for each student during the year. It is wonderful to be able to send children to school who would not have this opportunity...
by Ellie Pijper | May 16, 2012 | News
Primary school de Wyngert has organized an open door day with a Fancy Fair for Sparrow. It was a busy and, most of all, a really pleasant day. The week before the Fancy Fair some Sparrow volunteers organized a presentation on Sparrow’s work at the school. They told...
by Ellie Pijper | Apr 30, 2012 | News, Scholarship Program
This month our first college student has graduated. Joy was Sparrow’s first student in the Scholarship Program. She got a Sparrow sponsorship for her complete study Political Science. She finished her study successfully through hard work, which made us really proud....
by Ellie Pijper | Apr 7, 2012 | Medical Fund, News
Today Alexander has had an accident at his work. Alexander lives in Lazareto and works on a garbage truck. Standing on top of the vehicle he sorts out the waste which is thrown into the vehicle by his colleagues. During his work he fell off the vehicle because a low...
