Author: Rotaract Den Haag - Scheveningen

Drink water for victims of earthquake in Turkey via waterpump! Rotary Global Grant

Drink water for victims of earthquake in Turkey via waterpump! Rotary Global Grant

Empower Lives: Provide Clean Water in Adiyaman, Turkey – Your Support Matters! Picture the profound impact of clean water on a community’s recovery after an earthquake. Global Grant 23-49396 is poised to deliver this life-changing necessity to earthquake victims in Adiyaman, Turkey, within a Rotary-sponsored 

Peace Webinar

Peace Webinar

Rotaract Scheveningen, 5 May 2020 On Tuesday 5 May 2020, day marking 75 years of peace since the end of the Second World War in The Netherlands, the Rotaract Scheveningen organised its first webinar on Peace. Forty Rotaract members and guests gathered virtually to discuss 

Meet & Greet evenings are back!

Meet & Greet evenings are back!

On the 8th of October, our club organised the first Meet & Greet event of the new season. We gathered once more to meet with friends and have a nice evening while listening 2 inspirational talks.

Our first guest speaker Susan Kraaijeveld, a member of Rotary Dordrecht and the ambassador of WarChild, gave a presentation about the project she is organising with WarChild in various countries. We heard about how education is crucial in developing countries and learn about the youth education programme with examples from Beirut.

Following Susan, we welcomed Marcel Kampmann, who is an architect working mainly on housing projects. He gave us an insight about the challenges and potentials of social housing and how it influences our everyday life.

After the presentations of both speakers, we enjoyed the rest of our evening while having some drinks and getting to know each other better.

We are already looking forward the next Meet & Greet! Stay tuned for our new speakers and new topics 🙂

Beach Clean-up! Part of World Clean-Up Effort.

Beach Clean-up! Part of World Clean-Up Effort.

On 21st of September together with Rotary Scheveningen and WWF we will be part of World effort to clean up. Join us from 15.00 in Scheveningen on September 21st. So far, with our previous 3 clean-ups we gathered around 250KG from the beach. We hope 

New Rotaract Year!

New Rotaract Year!

September 10th kicked off our new Rotaract Year. We hope to do a lot of things together this year. Are you interested? Let us know and be part of our missing to be better.

Day with Kids in local Community Centre.

Day with Kids in local Community Centre.

On the last weekend of May, the Rotaract Club Scheveningen in collaboration with De Kroko’s Kids Club organized some entertaining activities for 5-12 y.o. children and their parents who attended the event. The day started with painting but the one of a very special kind. Kids were using white t-shirts provided by our Club as a plain canvas where they could unleash their creativity and decorate them according to their individual ideas and preferences.

Overall, children were very excited to become fashion designers even for some time; they were even more excited to take their masterpieces home afterwards. Another highlight of the day was a motion game «Animal Kingdom» when three teams were demonstrating their artistic talents while imitating a chosen animal. The audience (surely impressed by performance) had to guess what kind of animals were in front of them…Children were enjoying it so much that the game could last forever…Luckily, they got hungry and we had lunch together — otherwise we would have run out of animal options to perform: at the end of the game almost all existing creatures were already covered.

9th of March, Beach-Clean-Up

9th of March, Beach-Clean-Up

How did our day go? 9 March 2019 – Programme of the day The start of the day was in beachclub Oscars, at Scheveningen with coffee and a snack. Lloyd from WWF and Ralph from Thrashurehunt told us their personal history and why they were 

Rotaract club goes painting!

Rotaract club goes painting!

On the 27th of October, Rotaract Club of Den Haag Scheveningen participated in a voluntary activity at a family’s house in The Hague, in order to help them re-painting their living room. Although it was a challenging task, our members enjoyed their day while painting 

Rotaract Beach Benefit

Rotaract Beach Benefit

On Saturday 2nd of June, our beach party on benefit for Alzheimer charity took place at Indigo Beach Club in Scheveningen. We started with two speeches from the organization that we are helping, first guest speaker Femke Hameetman, sea of Education from Mauritshuis spoke about how positively big, art can impact on people with dementia and “the unforgettable Mauritshuis tour” they offer for people with dementia.

Follow by Gert Teusink, former Rotaract-member and now Rotary member and representative from Alzheimer Haaglanden who talked about how people with Alzheimer feel, and what they got through, he also invited everyone to be part of their coffee afternoon where you as family member or friend of a person with Alzheimer can share your experiences with this with other people going through the same. Our members Ilya and Froukje finished the speeches appreciating all the support and officially opening the bbq. 

Later on, our former Rotaract Scheveningen member Viollete Krouwel gave a speech about how Alzheimer disease can come any time and how she has gone through it with her mother. She thanked the club for making such event since she was the reason why we came up with the idea of helping this charity, and she also invited everyone to feel free to donate some money so we could raise even more out of this event.

Around 21:00 the dance party started the band Federica Lorusso Trio set up its place and started playing some jazz-funk music. Follow by the DJ’s Roy and Abhey who together with their mix of jazz and saxophone kept the party going till late midnight.
 
  
We have to thank all the people who made this event possible and the people who donated an extra more. 
 From all this event we as the club managed to raise enough money to donate 5 “Onvergetelijk Mauritshuis” to Alzheimer Haaglanden. 
 
For more information about the Onvergetelijk programme please visit: https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/press/persarchief/2016/onvergetelijk-mauritshuis/
Baking Pizza’s at the Haagsche Bluf

Baking Pizza’s at the Haagsche Bluf

As it happens every year, the new members of Rotaract Club Scheveningen organized a new members activity. This year it took place on 26th of May at the Haagsche Bluf, 46. Located in the heart of The Hague, the Haagsche Bluf is a residence for