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Tuesday 12 March 2019

Biggest volunteer event on Aruba is on:

Do What Needs To Be Done

ORANJESTAD – The beautiful white-sanded beaches, the amazing luxurious resorts and the mouth-
watering choice of restaurant dishes are a huge attraction of Aruba that make for a fantastic va-
cation. If you would like to add a little local connection to that, this weekend is yours. The biggest
volunteer event ARUBA DOET will take place Friday and Saturday. You are most welcome to join
and roll up your sleeves together with the locals to create some happiness on One Happy Island
…. Just by doing.

Renovating, building, cleaning, organizing and gardening are some of the key words that ap-
ply to the jobs to be done. Schools, foundations, sport organizations … they are the ones being
helped by this initiative and they really need it. This is a weekend of social cohesion and a contri-
bution to the social community of the island. Above all it is fun too as there are snacks and drinks
during well-deserved breaks and the fulfilling feeling that you achieved something in the end by
supporting the island’s people.

Heart & Soul
Friday the 15 and Saturday the 16 of March 2019, CEDE Aruba in cooperation with the Oranje-
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Fonds will be organizing ARUBA DOET, the biggest volunteer event on Aruba. The Netherlands and
five Caribbean islands highlight these volunteer initiatives and they stimulate everyone to donate
their time to help out the people who need it. This helps everyone. Volunteers are the heart and
soul of many community organizations. Through ARUBA DOET the OranjeFonds and CEDE Aruba
emphasize how important actively engaged citizens as well as visitors are for the community and
for social organizations. What’s also important, ARUBA DOET helps to improve the image of volun-
teering and shows how much fun it can be. In Aruba more than 4,000 volunteers were active at
207 jobs in 2018, a record! Obviously the aim is even higher this year, so register your project or sign
up as a volunteer now you still can.
OranjeFonds
The event ARUBA DOET started in 2013 on the initiative of the OranjeFonds. Under the names
NLdoet (The Netherlands), ARUBA DOET (Aruba), CURA DOET (Curaçao), BON DOET (Bonaire),
STATIA DOET (Sint Eustatius) and SXM DOET (Sint Maarten), these six initiatives highlight volunteer-
ing and volunteers while encouraging everybody to roll up their sleeves for (part of) a day. With
these six initiatives the OranjeFonds is organizing the biggest volunteer event in the Kingdom in
cooperation with thousands of social organizations and with the support of local partners such
as CEDE Aruba. The OranjeFonds is the biggest national fund in the social arena and showcases
the best the Kingdom has to offer. Around €30 million is spent each year supporting organizations
and initiatives that strengthen social cohesion in The Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the
Kingdom. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima are the official patrons of the Fund.
For more information: www.arubadoet.com.q