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Ja, leg dat maar eens uit....

Move My Heart - Trinity

Some places in this world are dark. Famine, misery, poverty, war....it seems impossible to live your life or even to survive. There's such a gap between those places and me. I've seen such places, I've seen people fighting for there lives.....the looks of children wandering around the streets...the ...

Move My Heart - Trinity

Some places in this world are dark. Famine, misery, poverty, war....it seems impossible to live your life or even to survive. There's such a gap between those places and me. I've seen such places, I've seen people fighting for there lives.....the looks of children wandering around the streets...the ...

Last Minute Weeshuis

Last minute weeshuis gaat je meenemen naar de wereld van vrijwilligerswerk met kinderen. Wat zijn de verwachtingen van vrijwilligers voordat ze vertrekken naar de bestemming en waarom willen ze eigenlijk vrijwilligerswerk doen? Hoe ervaren zij het vrijwilligerswerk ter plaatse? Is het wel zo makkeli...

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Op 15 november was het 'World Toilet Day'. In het kader van deze dag is de Urgent Run georganiseerd. De naam is toepasselijk: als je nodig naar de wc moet, moet je rennen... Deze dag vraagt aandacht voor de noodzaak van sanitaire voorzieningen, ook in armere wijken.

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December 7, 2014 an event called 'Rock the Riles' was held in the various MRT train stations along EDSA Highway in Metro Manila. Each train station represented the 8 millennium development goals of the Philippines. The Ayala Train Station was where the band I'm the road manager of was assigned to. I...

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This deep fried flatbread is a common street food in Hungary where it is served warm with sour cream and grated cheese, rubbed with garlic or garlic butter, or doused with garlic water.

Out of the (old) box

In two ways, out of the (old) box, last year, there was a fire in the slums, that happens a lot.  People are affected, and we did a lot of donation drives, bringing food and clothes. We realized we can't help everyone, and does it really help, that kind of help? Of course it helps. In the Phili...

Pay it forward....

Input from the Philippines It has been more than 1,5 years since I left the Philippines, due to covid-19.  I am sort of reversed homesick. I have been listening to tagalog songs (Joey Ayala) and sending messages to my friends in the Philippines. And I found the birthday greetings from my colleg...

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I have been back in the Netherlands, after almost 2 years being away from the Philippines. I am trying hard to adjust. I was at the same time very happy to meet the boardmembers of the University of the Philippines Alumni. They will sell our Apo Island Products yogamats. They were for a while i...