Feel good, do good
This year, Rotaract Scheveningen Club cleaned the canals of the Hague city as part of the End Plastic Soup action day on June 4th. This was just a day before World Environment Day. We started with a canoe near Bierkade and did a full circle …
We, Rotaract club Scheveningen, would gather on the 4th of June at 11am in Bierkade, the Hague, to go kayaking and clean up the city canals! This is our 5th year doing EndPlasticSoup action day and we would like to invite you to participate to …
On Saturday 9th of April, we together with Rotarians and Welzijn Scheveningen joined our forces to help Ukraine.
Part of our team was standing in front of two grocery stores to ask people to buy food or other goods, such as diapers, soaps, candles and matches, for Ukraine.
Others were driving the van to collect the goods and to sort them in different boxes so that in the later stage it’s easier to find what you’re looking for.
The people doing groceries were very generous and all in all, we collected 95 boxes!!
On Monday, the boxes were delivered from Den Haag to Nieuw Vennep where they were loaded into trucks by Stichting Holland-Oekraine, a foundation transporting goods from the Netherlands to Ukraine.
The boxes reached their final destination in Ukraine on the 19th of April.
Thank you to everyone who participated!
In the past weekend, members of our club helped with 2 activities. The first one was with the local city farm, Stadsboerderij Schildershoeve, where we planted some flowers and installed a plane spring swing for children to have fun with, now that the spring is …
Yesterday, members of Rotaract Scheveningen went to play bingo with the elderly with dementia living in a nursing home. We had a very nice time with the elderly and bingo can be anything but boring.
Our year 2021 ended with a big project that we did for Stichting Perspectief. As an outreach project, we gathered Sinterklaas gifts for women and children who are not home due to domestic violence. We wanted to do something special as Sinterklaas could bring joy to everyone around. After we kicked off our project, we gathered donations to buy presents. Via one of our members, we also contacted the local ING office, which also decided to participate and donate a lot of gifts.
On Thursday, 2nd December we gathered together to wrap all the gifts, so the next day we could hand them out at locations of Stichting Perspektief. We had quite a lot of fun wrapping gifts.
On Friday, 3rd December 2021, we members of the club Rotaract Scheveningen, left our warm houses on a very cold evening and joined in an unexpected journey. The Solidarity. We received so much love and gratitude from children and their mommies living in one of the numerous shelters that house survivors of domestic violence.
The journey with each family, Sinterklaas, duizendenkleuren Piet and two wonderful assistants was unique! Who received the gifts were us! Thank you, children, and mothers, for believing in generosity, accepting our gifts and returning it with tenderness and with lots of smiles and happiness! The Sinterklaas is in each one of us! Tot volgend jaar!
On November 27, volunteers of the Rotaract Scheveningen helped the local home shelter Leger des Heils. Leger des heils is a shelter home for homeless people where the residents can stay for 2 years. They also provide a shed for non-residents where they can stay …
On Saturday, 20th of November, members of our club spent the day with the kids at the community center “De Kroko Kinderclub”. This center is located in one of the neighborhoods of the Hague. Every two weeks, children from different backgrounds meet and take part …
In November start, our club could continue our club weekend tradition after a bit longer break. Once a year we make a trip somewhere and this time we took our cars to Bruges and Ghent in Belgium!
We had a sightseeing tour with our guide Erik in Bruges, castle visit in Ghent, beer tasting here and there and also got to see the most beautiful corners of both cities.
All in all a very successful trip!
Here are some pictures from the trip.
What is this about? Our Club is doing a charity breakfast to collect funds to educate children about climate and water in South Africa and Romania. We are currently working on a water education package, which will be distributed in schools. How can I help? …