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Wednesday 8 March 2017

Participate With the Largest Volunteer Initiative in the Kingdom!

ORANJESTAD - On the 10th years. Foundations and as- Everyone who wants to be highly of the initiative of het tions that participated with
and 11th of March 2017, sociations still have the time part of the biggest volun- OranjeFonds. Volunteers CURA DOET also were very
the DOET initiatives will take to register a project; from teer initiative in the King- who participated with BON positive about their expe-
place once again. This painting the community dom and is willing to lend rience: “Our activity was
initiative of OranjeFonds centre and fixing the play- a hand for (part) of a day DOET stated that “it was great. Much more fun than
started in the Netherlands ground to organizing a fun at a foundation, health in- an effective way to help we expected”, “it was so
with NLdoet. In partnership day out for the elderly, ev- stitution or association can and a lot of fun” and that nice to see our clients and
with local organizations on erything is possible! Visit the register to volunteer. “families can also make it colleagues working togeth-
all the islands, BON DOET, websites of the different By participating you get in- a fun family day out”. The er in the same uniform” and
ARUBA DOET, CURA DOET, islands to confirm registra- troduced to volunteer work volunteers and organiza- “the seniors of Ser’i Otro-
SXM DOET and STATIA DOET in a fun and exciting way banda were so happy with
have also been successful- tion deadlines and all other and you help an organiza- their excursion to Banda
ly organized in these past information. tion to get projects done. Abou, many of them had
years. Volunteers are the Volunteers can sign up for not visited in a while”.
beating hearts of many so- a project starting Janu- Supported by Nationale
cial initiatives. ary 2017. With the slogan Postcode Lotterij, Neder-
OranjeFonds wants to show “many hands make light landselotterij, and gifts from
with the DOET campaign work”, the DOET initiative donors and companies,
how important active citi- encourages people to also OranjeFonds spends about
zens are for the community. join forces together and
For foundations and asso- sign up to volunteer togeth- €30 million annually in di-
ciations, it is also a wonder- er with family members, rect financial contributions
ful opportunity to complete colleagues, classmates or to 9000 social initiatives
projects and engage new members of a sport club. in the Netherlands and in
volunteers with their orga- Every year there are hun- the Caribbean part of the
nization. dreds of organizations Kingdom.q
and volunteers who speak
And of course it under-
scores how much fun vol-
unteering can be!
Hundreds of projects are
implemented during two
days at foundations, health
institutions and associations
in the Netherlands and on
the 5 Caribbean islands. Ev-
eryone is invited to partici-
pate! In 2016, there were
more than500 projects
registered and more than
6000 people volunteered.
The organizations hope
that in 2017, there will be
even more projects and
volunteers than in previous