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In the Grootegast community a potato campaign was organized on behalf of Sparrow. People went from house to house selling potatoes. The profit was among others for Sparrow’s Medical Fund. The ‘Streekkrant’ newspaper wrote the article below about thi...
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Bouwbedrijf C.P. Notebomer, a building company and sponsor of Sparrow since Sparrows start, exists 25 years this year. They celebrated this anniversary with a big party. They asked the guests to donate to one of two charities instead of giving th...
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Sparrow is grateful for the donation sent by the youth of the protestant church Dokkum-Aalsum-Wetsens. Read below the newspaper article that was placed in the "Nieuwe Dockumer Courant".
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Vilma’s RTW, a clothes shop in Calapan, has donated a large amount of clothes to Sparrow for the children in Lazareto.
Lazareto is one of the poorest neighborhoods in Calapan, where children’s clothes often are full of holes. Because of th...
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Marina, our staff member in the Netherlands, makes special purses. Elegant or cheerful, brightly decorated or simple, sparkling or sober, embellished with lace or ribbons. After deduction of the costs of materials and fabric the profit is for Sparrow. Mar...
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For the second time we organized a Christmas celebration for our sponsor children in Lazareto. The children really enjoyed this very happy day.
Early in the afternoon we sang, danced and listened to the Christmas story. Afterwards we all had som...
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The Reformed Church in Twijzelerheide has organized a sponsored run and a fancy fair. Fifty percent of the profit was donated to Sparrow.
The sponsored run was a difficult course of, among other things, a sack race, crawling under a canvas and wa...
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We are Hans and Annemarie and we have worked with Sparrow for a week. After a flight from Amsterdam to Manila, a drive from Manila to Batangas by car and a boat trip from Batangas to the island of Oriental Mindoro we arrived in Calapan City, where R...
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Tuesday Mary Ann, the mentally handicapped girl from Lazareto, gave birth to a healthy daughter.
The baby was born by cesarean surgery. She weighs 2,8 kilograms and she is 18 inches long. As far as we can see at this moment the many epileptic seizure...
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We are a family from Switzerland with a 5-year old son, Elischa, and a one and half year old daughter, Jolina. We took the chance this spring to visit Hanspeter's sister and her family in the Philippines for three months, before Elischa has to go to kinde...
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In the Philippines the summer holidays started in April. At the end of the school year it is a tradition in the Philippines to hand out medals to the most successful students.
Sparrow is proud to let you know that seven of her sponsor children have r...
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For the children in Lazareto, Christmas is not a celebration with delicious food and presents. Therefore Sparrow wanted to organize a Christmas celebration for her sponsor children. A celebration with a narration of the Christmas story, Christmas songs ...
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Near the beach, in the middle of the neighbourhood Lazareto, Sparrow has built a meeting place. This building is meant to be a place where the people of Lazareto can come whenever they like. Lazareto is one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Calapan. The ma...
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During the summer holidays in the Netherlands Sparrow started a large text messaging campaign "Six weeks holiday! What are you going to do before you go back to school?". Lots of children in the Netherlands think of school as something you must do, a dail...
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Promotional movie for the scholarship program
Sparrow has made a promotional movie for its scholarship program. The movie gives an impression of life in barangay Lazareto, the neighborhood where we carry out the scholarship program. Lazareto is one of ...
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Two hundred children apply for a Sparrow scholarship in barangay Lazareto
On Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th of April parents and their children from barangay Lazareto could apply for the scholarship program. Right from the start of Tuesday morning it ...
