Surrounding yourself with people that have qualities beyond your capabilities is an amazing process. Where once you got stuck in 'the right way of doing things', new people in the team with passions and gifting beyond what you've given up to that point, makes your efforts soar on new heights.
Even thought this sounds easy to do, it's in the ability to 'let go' and 'step back' that makes this process successful. And this is where I have to confess - i too often still stand in the way.
Standing in the way - but learning to step back! The results are amazing!
I want to thank all the guys that made 'Tjeko Container Project' look so very HOT! Now lets put it to work!
Picking up some speed! Tjeko is getting its OWN office - with our OWN door!
OK - we need to cross trough somebodies office to get there - and somebody might have to pass trough our office to get to his... but we have our OWN office!
WE'll be fixing it up in the next couple of weeks. Come january 1st, and we'll be all SET!
Harry and Hen did an amazing fundraiser for 1moreChild in the UK (see blog) and got ALL the children a beatiful t-shirt! I am telling you- it's like we gave them pure gold! Very exciting!
Eventhough the biggest junk of my time in Uganda is spent meeting people concerning Tjeko, Sunday afternoon was one of the moments I took time to meet with some of the 1moreChild children.
It was great fun to go to a local restaurant for a big meal. After the meal we got to spent sime time sharing stories, lauging and just taking it easy. I start to know more and more of these kids by name, and it is nice to see them grow over the years! It was an afternoon full of laughter :)
We strongly believe in equipping others, enabling others to go do the ExTRAORDINARY. Well, last Friday I had the honors to go and introduce Tjeko Fun Fair to the student body of the Navigators in Utrecht. I am trilled to go work with these guys, and so is Tatiana.Christian Zwart, who worked with us in New York has started an amazing project within NSU, called NSU helps. The thoughts behind the inisiative is to mobilize students during their study time to help others. Mostly up-to this point it have been projects with a focus on Utrecht, the city they study in, but this year thats changed!
Our goal is to mobilize a group of students who will organize a huge event to promote the manifesto of Tjeko - AND for them to sent us a team of students to help capture the 'action' in Uganda.
Tatiana has really been driving this project to a level that is challenging and mind-blowing. We are living in a cause-driven generation, and we are convinced that once students can see the impact our actions can have - they realize they have a chance to change the world. We can all scream something out loud- but let us make sure we scream something well worth screaming. Let's laugh and love OUT LOUD.
Here you can see the video NSU helps put together for us.
Over the summer I'd commited myself to 'EXPAND' and refresh the brain.
Much needed when you continually push yourself to 'do more' 'give more''achieve more'.
(found out i was doing way to much of that - but that's an other blog post one day)
One of those investments was a four-week course in Amsterdam, given by the 'Business in Development-network'.
I wanted to share two of the video's they made, that have some TJEKO bits and pieces in it!
OK - it's all in Dutch - and the first video has a poor SOUND quality ...
