Advisors board Sapana School Foundation
Advisors of the board
of the Sapana School Foundation in the Netherlands are Karlien
Bongers, Elsa Geilman, Marian Kok, Hans Timmermans
Karlien
Bongers:
"To enforce some one in the realising of his/her potential
is my life's mission".
Karlien Bongers got her degrees in tropical doctor, surgery and
child surgery. From 1997 she worked in different hospitals as
a surgeon with oncological surgery and also with children. In
2005 she worked for half a year for the Tsunamie relief in the
Maledives. End 2005 she and the child doctor Ines von Rosenstiel
founded Medical Checks for Children a foundation of volunteers
(http://www.medicalchecksforchildren.org) to improve the health
situaton of poor and marginalised children who live in difficult
situations. Since then she, often as a mission leader, participated
in more than 15 MCC missions. Since 2005 she visists Chitwan
and works with Dhurba Giri to realise his dream. She is also
the co-founder of the Nationan Knowledge and Information Center
for Integrative Medicine (http://www.NIKIM.nl) with the goal
to implement this new vision on (health)caremet that does takes
health and possibilities as a starting point, rather than ilnesses
and limitations. To make this clear she monthly publishes a column
in the magazine Supplement (http://www.sup.nl) and performs readings
and workshops. In 2008 she started a organisation-,coachin- and
advising bureau of her own "Bongers Unlimited, health(care)
improvement". She is very happy that she, co-operating with
MCC medical checks for children can continue the work for the
children. With the Sapana School foundation she will devote her
energy to, with respectfull and generalistic approach, to make
marginalised children less vulnetable and to improve thier life
expectancy.
bongersunlimited@online.nl
Elsa Geilman: In
2006, as a member of the Medical Checks for Children mission
(from the Netherlands), I met Dhurba Giri in Chitwan. He is the
manager of Sapana Lodge, Sauraha, where our team stayed during
our medical checks of the children in the area. He told me about
his life and the life of his people the Tharu. As I saw him again
in 2007 and 2008, we became friends and he told me his dream
of the future.
I share Dhurba's dream
and I want to help him to make his dream come true. Not only
for Dhurba, but also for his family, his friends, his people
the Tharu and for the sake of mankind as a whole. For together
we are one: together we make a good world.
I will reach all the people who are needed to make Dhurba's dream
come true.
Elsa Geilman, education
philosopher, didacticion en counsellor
Sternes, Krete February 19th 2008
Marian Kok: Sapana means dream in Nepali and
to me it truly is a dream.
When I went on my second
mission to Nepal in 2008 with Medical Checks for Children, it
was to Sapana Village Lodge. Here I met Dhurba (the manager of
the Lodge) and we became good friends. He inspired me with the
story of his life and all of his dreams to make a better future
for the people of the Chitwan region. Dhurba knows how to motivate
and involve all kinds of people to make these dreams come true.
Sapana is a fantastic development project, in which the profit
of the Lodge is being used to set up projects in the neighbourhood.
In The Netherlands I work
as a communications advisor and project manager. I am fully committed
to share my skills and knowledge to make the projects of Sapana
a big success. I am very proud to be one of the advisors of the
Sapana School.
