Projects

TOTAL AMOUNT to charity, so far: Euro 6.565,-

September 2011 PAINT-IT-FORWARD for Watoto, Tanzania
Dam-tot-Dam loop (10EM run)
September 18th I participated in the Dam-tot-Dam run from Amsterdam to Zaamdam.
I started training in June and finished in 1h48m. The sponsors could buy a ticket for 10 Euro each. Two paintings and a lunch at Fifteen were provided by PAINT-IT-FORWARD. The drawing of lots took place at the end of October by Willem van der Steen, 5yrs. In this video you see the announcement of the winnars: Els van Veen, Floris van Elten and Yara Dekker. In October we transferred Euro 2.350,- to the Watoto foundation in Tanzania. Thanks to family, friends, colleagues and Tele2.




November 2010 PAINT-IT-FORWARD for Patch, South Africa
Painting with children at Tonka Bosman School, auction at Tele2 
Together with my friend Rianne I went to South Africa to paint with 20 children at the Tonka Bosman school (related to the Patch Helderberg foundation) in Somerset West. I prepared this day very carefully with Mandy Jones of Patch and with Anita Dekker a creative therapist in the Netherlands. 
Explaining the kids they were able to make money for Patch by making a piece of art made them very proud. Especially since a journalist interviewed them and took pictures for the local newspapers. They enjoyed the attention of two Dutch girls, the dancing (they taught us the Waka Waka steps), the present they all got and off course the painting itself. We donated the huge amount of painting materials to the school and we took one painting of each kid back to sell in the Netherlands.
We drew a heart on each canvas and asked the children to paint in the heart what makes them happy. We saw a lot of flowers, butterflies, X-mas trees also an animal and a car. The results are incredibly beautiful and colourful.

Overview_paintings.pdf  in this document you'll find the 20 paintings of the little artists.
Newspaper_South_Africa.pdf proud to anounce that the project made it to the South African newspaper.

In January 2011 Euro 2.915,- was transferred to Patch. Thanks to friends, family, colleagues, De Voltage, Tele2 & Hans van Breukelen.
Please watch this video of the children of the Tonka Bosman school thanking us.

 


March 2006 PAINT-IT-FORWARD for Expeditie Sierra-Leone
Making two paintings for an auction
Expeditie Sierra-Leone is a project to help rebuilding Sierra-Leone after the civil war. The two paintings that were offered for the auction that was held at a benefit-party in the Heineken Experience were sold together for
Euro 1.300,-.