by Marjan Schaapman | Feb 27, 2020 | News
The annual report of the Van Doorn Foundation over 2019 has been published! Read about what we – thanks to our donors and sponsors – have achieved in 2019! Download: Annual Report...
by Marjan Schaapman | Mar 8, 2019 | News
Today’s work visit of Paul, our treasurer, to Daya Mina Special Centre in Colombo (Sri Lanka) was instructive, moving and commanded a lot of respect. In this centre, mentally disabled young people learn skills that enable them to participate in society, work...
by Marjan Schaapman | Aug 17, 2018 | News
From June 26 to July 16, 2018, Paul Sutmuller, our treasurer, visited current and potential projects in Uganda and Kenya. It became a real tour through East Africa, as he visited 3 locations in West Uganda (near the border with Congo), 3 locations in North Uganda...
by Marjan Schaapman | Jul 30, 2018 | News
This week we received the second progress report from the Chepkorio Vocational Training Centre. Moreover, the project was visited last month by our treasurer, Paul Sutmuller. In the Chepkorio Vocational Training Centre in Kenya, underprivileged young people from the...
by Marjan Schaapman | Jul 17, 2018 | News
July 31, 2018 there is a party because … then Paul Sutmuller, founder of our foundation, turns 70! Therefore…. 7 (o) BURNING QUESTIONS TO PAUL! 1. Of all the trips you made, what was the most beautiful and why? Nearly 50 years ago, in 1969, I was sent to West...
by Marjan Schaapman | Jan 31, 2018 | News
In Kenya, more than 250,000 children live on the streets, of which more than 60,000 in Nairobi. In Dagoretti Corner, in the west of Nairobi, poverty lures many children into the streets. They are known as “chokoraa”; a nickname derived from “garbage...
