We are incredibly happy with our loyal sponsor elementary school the Krullevaar located in Nieuwegein (in Holland). Already for many years the school organizes a charity walk for the children of the Kolewa foundation. Because of their efforts we again could receive a large contribution this year. The event took place not long ago. Click here  if you like to watch the photo’s! During the celebration at the end of schoolyear the raised amount wil be announced. Ofcource Kolewa will be there too. Thank you very much, children, parents and tutors of the Krullevaar, for you dedication every year to help the Kolewa foundation!

Would you also like to organize a charity event for Kolewa with your school? A charity walk or another event? Let us know so we can negotiate about the possibilities!

Various people are asking us how Orip is doing, the boy from Kupang that we mentioned earlier. Orip has a Meningocele in his nek, which requires an urgent operation. A few weeks have passed since our first call to help Orip. Since then, our team worked very hard to organize all the right papers and gathered the family for consultation. As many other times, situations change in Indonesia and need some adjustments.

Our scout Nicsone went on a house visit when Orip was living with his aunt at the time, and not his grandma. His parents divorced and his mother is now living on another island. During the primary investigations in the Siloam Hospital in Kupang, the doctors concluded that an operation in Jakarta would be the better solution. For Kolewa this meant a too expensive option and moreover, it would be too complicated to guide Orip during this process.

Through the local media a call was made for help, leading to a conversation with a delegation of the Indonesian BRI bank, the family and our scout. The BRI bank offered to help Orip in a private hospital with accommodation for some family members. At that moment we, as Kolewa, decided to transfer some of the responsibilities to the BRI bank.

In the meanwhile, they travelled to Jakarta and we will be informed about Orip’s progress. The reactions to our call for help were very heart warming and kind, in total an amount of 500 euros were donated. A part of the donation is given to the preparations of Orips medical journey and the rest of the amount will be used for a new call for help: a newly born baby from Bali with hydrocephalus. We hope to realize an operation this month for the baby to place a shunt. Ofcourse we will keep you posted about all the progress!

Thank you so much for your interest and gifts!

Bewaren

Our speach-therapy students from the period of september until december 2016 are already back home and busy with proccessing their experiences and study results during their time at the Kolewa Foundation in Bali.

A few weeks ago, Thiarda and Sanne promoted Kolewa to younger students at the ‘worldcafé’ at the Hanze University and recently they presented their research results with together with Hilde. Their teachers were very happy with the results and gave them a very high ranking (an 8 in Dutch terms) which nominated them for two prices. In the meanwhile they already won a public price which also made us, the Kolewa Foundation, very proud! Every week we use the sign-book that they made for us during their research, in collaboration with our team in Indonesia! Great work Thiarda, Hilde and Sanne! We are very proud of you!

Orip Bifel was born on the 5th of june in Timor, a 2 hours distance from the city Kupang. That something was wrong with his health, was quickly noticeable because of the growing bump in his neck. It grew rapidly without someone taking action. Poverty and ignorance, denial and hope for better times? At Kolewa we already heard a lot of reasons in the past years. Mostly we heard that people felt ashamed and had  no money available for treatment.

Also after the operation Orip will get enough time to recover and to be himself again.

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