Blogs

23 January 2020

Hope to the hopeless

The news came to me as a mere lie, that For a Change would build a house for me. The previous life I had always been busy doing maintenance on my house. Whenever rain season came, I was forced to work out on my house.

13 January 2020

Contrasts

Looking forward to my next visit to Malawi, I started thinking about the contrasts between our 'richness' and the Malawian 'poorness'. I write this between quotation marks on purpose.

9 December 2019

It all started with a dream

It all started with a dream. Once in my life, I wanted to visit Africa. Once in my life, I wanted to see the African life. There are many stories about organisations in Africa, about poverty and disasters, about doubts and questions about giving your money (and the question if it is good to give money in the first place). So many questions that ...

13 November 2019

Thanksgiving day

This month, it is Thanksgiving day in The Netherlands. It's in the name already: THANKSgiving. We give thanks for all the gifts God gave us. The crops on the fields, the fruits on the trees, health and power to do our work..

18 October 2019

A day in Kwanjana

The day starts early. I am preparing myself to go to Kwanjana. I am looking forwards to seeing everybody again. I am curious how the playing garden looks like and how all the children are doing.

26 September 2019

Back to school

The summer holiday is over, and we can hear that in the center! Every day, joyful voices of children sound in and around the classroom. Sometimes, especially during the first weeks, this is interchanged with crying. For some of the youngest children, it was hard to left their mothers behind and to be an entire morning at school.

19 September 2019

A board member from Malawi writes...

This time, a blog from a Malawian board member: Bright Khaneni! He is the secretary of the Malawian board. As secretary, he makes sure that the board can function optimally, that important topics can be discussed and that decisions are made effectively and are also carried out.

26 August 2019

Joy

It is already some time ago that we visited the entire village, from door to door. The heavy rainfalls passed by and the sun was burning on our skin. Home after home, there was misery. Some people had to sleep under a tiny piece of plastic, together with the pigs. The need was enormous.