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 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 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...
by Remco Pijper | Mar 17, 2010 | Medical Fund, News
On Tuesday February 16 we went to a pediatrician with Princess, a 4-months old baby. She has an exanthema and little open wounds all over her body, but mainly on her scalp. This started when she was one month old. According to the pediatrician the exanthema is caused...
