Project updates

We love to share several news snippets with you, to keep you updated.

Krijn Donk was supposed to skate the 200 km tour on the Weissensee in Austria on Tuesday 28 January, for the benefit of the Teen Challenge juvenile home in Kazakhstan.

The organization moved the event to Monday 27, due to temperatures above freezing (which is not good for the ice!). Krijn started this morning at 07:00, but it soon became clear that the conditions were far from ideal. To save energy, he stopped after just over 2 laps.

He expects to try again on Friday 31 January. So we hope and pray that the frost will set in again. We can already share that a good amount of funds have come in (almost 6,000 euros) for which we are very grateful. But Krijn wouldn't be Krijn if there wasn't an actual challenge to participate in. So keep an eye on Friday. You can follow him via this link! ✦✦✦✦✦✦✦✦

The 2024 annual report, including the financial report of our treasurer Martin de Haas, is now on our website. If you want to know how much has come in and gone out in donations, how many countries we have visited, and how many projects we have supported, take a quick look here.

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Looking back on the Christmas package campaigns, we are very, very grateful for the enormous amount of donations that came in for this. We were able to donate a total of 9,000 euros to the four different projects!

2,500 euros for Operation Christmas Joy of  Transform Iran. 2,500 euros for the winter campaign in Moldova. 2,000 euros for the sailors and 2,000 euros for the prostitutes in Berlin who received nice gifts and prayers!

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Last week we (Jan and Marja) had a surprise visit. Gesi & Blerina Hysenaj, the directors of Teen Challenge in Albania, came by for coffee. They were in the Netherlands for a short meeting with another non-profit organization.

One of the students who completed the rehab program was also with them, his name is Joy. Via this link you can watch a video in which Joy tells what it's like at Teen Challenge and how his life has changed.

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Donations, large and small, are always welcome. You can send your gift in different ways:

💛Send a donation to St. Traveling Light, Papendrecht IBAN: NL91RABO0118582275 BIC: RABONL2U and make sure to mention country/project/general.

💳 Give by card

👉You can also donate directly via our website!