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A16 LOCAL
Tuesday 19 November 2019
16th Annual Breakfast Walk of Imeldahof Children Home

NOORD — Imeldahof Chil- the effort of the Roman support in order to provide
dren Home Foundation will Catholic Sisters of Bethani special activities or projects
be celebrating their 65th and was managed by for the children.
anniversary and will kick the Bethani Dutch Antilles
off the celebration with the Foundation. In 1976, the In order to get funds for
annual breakfast walk. This organization altered itself their activities Imeldahof
will take place on Sunday whereat Children Home will be holding the 16th
November 24th at 6AM. Imeldahof Aruba (Sticht- edition of the well-known
ing Kinderhuis Imeldahof breakfast walk. It’s a 5km
Imeldahof is a children Aruba) was founded as a walk for the whole family.
home for children ages 7 private foundation, subsi- It starts at 6AM at Imelda-
till 15. The objective of the dized by the government. hof in Noord, where you
children home is to offer a The subsidization concerns can enjoy the beauty of
temporary home and guid- the salaries of the person- the sunrise while spending
ance for children who, for nel and to cover expenses quality time with the family.
a variety of reasons, are per child. These expenses All participants will receive
unable to remain in their include provisions, attire, a t-shirt and also a snack
own homes. In most cases school material/fixed costs, box at the end of the walk.
this is until placement with activities, and all other ex- To register for the walk
their own family or relatives penses to manage the please send an email to
or a foster family can be foundation. Furthermore, meldahofaruba@setar.aw
found. The Children Home the organization is depen- or whatsapp at 593-7814 or
first opened its doors on dent on the community contact the office at 587-
November 25, 1954 with for financial and voluntary 6085.q

Alpitour choose Aruba for their The Stewart’s love coming

International Conference: to the island

More than 160 travel agencies

of Italy visited our island

ORANJESTAD — Recently, our island Alpitour choose our destination due
welcomed a big group from Italy to different reasons but what stood
who choose Aruba as host for their out was the safety of our island, the EAGLE BEACH — Marouska Heyliger of the Aruba Tourism Authority
international conference. ideal weather and the variety of had the pleasure to honor a lovely couple as Goodwill Ambassadors.
accommodation our island has to Julie and Tom Stewart from New Jersey were recently honored as
Alpitour is a well-known travel orga- offer. Goodwill Ambassadors. They have been visiting the island for 22
nization in Italy with various com- During their 7 day stay the par- consecutive times. The Stewart’s love coming to the island for the
panies under their leadership. Turi- ticipants were able to enjoy the great people, adventure, family time and beautiful beaches.
sanda is one of them consisting of beauty of our island thru excursions,
‘upscale’ travel agencies. The con- events and site inspections at sev- Heyliger conducted the ceremony which was held at the Divi
ference was named “An Unmistak- eral accomodations. Aruba Tourism Village Resort. The honorees received some presents and had
able Future”- Turisanda conference Authority would like to thank each been thanked for choosing Aruba as their vacation destination for
goes to Aruba”. and every one that made this con- so many years. q
ference a complete success.q