Just heard that our possible sponsor is not going to sponsor the t-shirts for Damloop
That is a set back, but not the end of the world :/

And now we are busy with preparing the report on how the pilot went overall :)

First report from Colombia and.... we are running deficit! but we are working on fixing it... it continues to be exciting and a lot of work :P

In the first week of May we started classes of English language in Rebolo. With the money that we raised through 1% club - your donations! and with the subsidy of Katholieke Jongerenbelangen (4000 euro).
The plan is to run the classes for 60 children during the three months as a pilot stage of the project.
This is a big change of the original plan. The main reasons are financing shortage and capacity of the partners in Colombia. In the Netherlands despite your support, the grant from NCDO and Eureko Achmea and some other donations we did not raise sufficient funds yet to make sure we can start the project of 3 years. In Colombia on the other hand one of the partners did not succeed in demonstrating the requested sustainability plan for the project after the initial 3 years of support from the Netherlands and thus we started looking for alternatives. At the same time delay in starting the project cost us support of a local sponsor, that became cautious and requested to show some results first.
Life is full of challenged, and this keeps us busy... and sharp!
So the board here and one partner in Colombia decided to do a three months pilot on a smaller scale to refine the big plan further, have more time to fundraise and gain more confidence among the local community that this is a serious and successful although charitable initiative.
Un updated budget with current progress and pictures I will upload shortly for your further information.

I would like to thank you all once again for your support!

Annual report will soon be published on the website, and I will update this page reporting on how we spent money of 1% club!

Guys, we urgently need a web admin!
The deal is: we have a website, but it is not optimal the way it is set up, placing updates is not handy - so the whole website needs a slight fix up,
AND
there are regular updates that need to be posted - so if you would like to help us change the world without leaving your couch and PC / MAC / I PAD - grab your chance!
pls contact me asap for more details - basically we need this uplift done yesterday, updates placing - wont take much time....

Thank you for twitting and passing this message further in your network!

Tatiana

http://www.mambapoint.tv/ - could you re-tweet this please!!!! - its a small video about our promotion of the song Peace to your sky on radio. Please help us start a wave of hope!

Thank you
Tatiana

En nieuwe video staat erop!!!