Board Sapana School Foundation
The members of the board of Sapana School Foudation in the Netherlands are Marie-José van der Sandt, president; Godfried Konings, treasurer; Carla van 't Slot, secretary.

Marie-José van der Sandt got to know the concept of Sapana School through her friend and former collaegue at the teachers trainings college Utrecht (SOL the Netherlands) Elsa Geilman. She got to share the enthousiasm for this special project with Elsa. When she was asked to co-operate with her (end 2008), to take over the stick so to say, to take care of a good network, to perform good support of the NGO in Nepal as well as the start of the realisation of Sapana School she took this as her task after intensive and carefull thoughts. After Marie-José's meeting in July and October 2009 with the members of NGO Sapana Village Development Centre Nepal and the president Dhurba Giri in Nepal she was convinced about the chance of succes of the project. She decided to form the foundation Sapana School for the fundraising and other possible support of the project. Marie-José worked from 1973 as an art teacher and teachers training /didacticion in Higher Education Institutes and since 1986 as manager in Higher Education Colleges in the Netherlands and in free time art schools. She was member of several boards of foundations in the Netherlands on National and regional levels.

 

Godfried Konings "I know Marie-José through a different project in which we worked together and when she asked me to become treasurer for the Sapana School Foundation I right away got very enthousiastic about this plan.
The last 15 years I worked in various financial functions in installation technics and the foodsector (Honig, Heinz, HAK) and recently I started working for Superunie, a large buying combination in the retailbranch.

Scholing in my conviction is for mankind the only possible way to make progress in life. At this moment my childeren are about to choose what highschool they want to attend for the next few years. I myself 'went back to school' in 2008 and I entered Univerity to be able to continue to develop myself . This is why I want to support this foundation as much as I can: so children in Nepal will get the same opportunities like we in the western world.

 

Carla van 't Slot "After my studies nursing, several specialisations and some years of practical working I followed the teacher trainings course for nursing. I'm married to Maarten and we have 4 children together. On august 15th 1952 I was born in the Hague.

At this moment I'm working as a nurse in a psychiatric ward and I give post graduate courses. As a governor I got experience in being president at a nursery school, being president of a parental board of a primary school and like a member of local supportive committee of the Dutch labour party.
During a period of 12 years I had my own company with trainings for people who work in the field of healthcare. But I found out that I actually prefer the primary process, the actual working for and with people.
When Marie-José asked me to be part of the group to take care of the establishing Sapana School in Nepal this filled me with enthousiasm. How great to know that, all that you do, is meant for the right cause. And really no money swallowing up layers in this organisation!"