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How to pronounce 70th in Dutch?

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and I am 1000 children and that is a
dream come true
I come from a Flemish family with five
girls and my parents were very
simple people hardworking people
who had to do a lot to
to give their children a good education they had to we
were not poor but our parents
still had to make ends meet every month
to let us study
i chose nursing
i became that too but i practiced it
famous only for a few months
i fell in love engaged and i rented
with the love of my life
it was a businessman and i stayed at home
yes that's
how it was at the time
but i had a great desire to do something
more than just take care of my
two children who were born in the meantime
i had a living you everything ran
smoothly i had a life the
way i wanted it
but still something was missing in my life
i went on to study then i went
to psychology later
also art history
but there I sat with that knowledge and
away I started with that
and then something happened
I went to a lecture in here in
brussels and from a doctor a canadian
doctor who had written a book about
vietnamese
and Cambodian refugees now
that
doctor had me completely captivated because
for me I came back
memories of my uncle father
who had worked very hard in the Congo and had
done incredibly beautiful things in the deep channel of the Congo
he
can also very interesting telling when he
came to belgians about his work in the congo
and
those things of people also on water that
combination of inspiration and nostalgia
sent me forward to go to that canadian
doctor
i asked if i can do something for
his organization and such I drew
that organization here in Flanders for 10 years in
1989 I traveled to Haiti for the first time
I read a lot about it and
heard a lot about it that it was an incredibly poor
country and I hoped that the canadian
doctor
also had ears to help children there in haiti
,
but during my trip
I saw so much extreme poverty with my
own eyes, including a mother who
quickly along the road with tool and took her
newborn child in my arms and
ran away
and she asked me please take my
child home take it to your country
and make sure it also gets a good
education from the i can't
take care of
yes those are images that are burned into my retinas
I was completely devastated
but that call to the canadian doctor
was actually not answered
and it is then that I decided
to start my own organization
in 1990 was
then born after this kona is a roman
goddess
the goddess of the week the place where you
were cradled at birth determines the further course of your life we are all lucky because we were
orn here in the rich west but m
ny ki in
developing countries and we were not that
lucky and have been shown to work with their
parents in the fields
the vicious circle of poverty can never be
broken if children are not
educated so i drew the card
for education
i set up an organization for
underprivileged children in the world who couldn't
get to school
and I did that in the form of
individual pepper shelves
now those godparent shelves that had to
be made known naturally I
had to find bits of orders and I worked
alone all alone from a small
spare room at my house and in order not
to reveal to you I did homily in
the churches
I think I want to have shielded all the Flemish church
to make cunina known
my daughter was allowed to
walk along with a sacrificial block from the pastor
to collect some money
so slowly and surely Colina grew with
those sponsorships
but soon my ambition to become a sponsor
outside of Haiti also
grew to set up a pen that's how I
went to the philippines brazil congo
and outside of that sponsorship I also
did small projects because I saw that
our godchildren did not all have the
graves to do higher studies
so I also put a small often
training
entrance to organize
all this I organized more than 300 fans
including
dozens of Christmas concerts all over
Flanders in
order to collect clearly
so I worked in silence day in day out for
25 years but I was ambitious and I
also felt that something had to
be done that i wasn't i was
realistic enough to say i
can't keep doing all that work alone
that's
why i give there 25 years looking
for a kony home and i went
looking for employees
colina can get bigger because there were
thousands of children there who were still
waiting for a godparent
we are reaching more and more godparents
but also companies
meanwhile we were not only able
to educate children We also set up benches, but we could
also build schools
today 1902 1019 we work with 8 permanent
employees in Belgium and more than thirty
volunteers
more than 130
employees abroad who do not arise from the pears
they all do this on a
voluntary basis
we do not pay advertising but luckily we have
well-known Flemish deco nina on more
publicity like nathalie meskens sabine de vos luc
appermont
and wouter torfs these are our
ambassadors who naturally give the best
of themselves for the organization
we spend less than 10% on
management costs with that I have myself
no wages either
and with that we want to give more than 90 percent
of our income to the poor
children we deliberately do not receive
government subsidies
just to maintain our independence
so to date we have put more than
14,000 children in school
they became nurses teacher doctor
architect
each with a drone
but sometimes rich and peeters goes now still
further
when i recently walked around in a slum in the
philippines cover and
visit godchild
i saw in the distance the godchild
teaching they spontaneously a large piece of
cardboard with a piece of chalk and around her
were about twenty children from the
slum i came closer and i said
to the mother
your daughter will definitely become
teachers that mother answers
she is that the hall because every day when she
comes from school those 20 children who
can never reach school desks
come to receive lessons from my
daughter
so so you see the one peter sheep
sometimes reaches this far beautiful story really touched me
oh such a child
can change the world of twenty children
in the meantime we have also completed more than 130
educational projects animal she
thinks she is
companies that have
made commitments in the context of social
corporate responsibility
we mainly offered schools
you see here a school in haiti
yes a school can hardly name you then
when it is hot the
children are in dust and when it
rains my feet
are in the mud so kunena does that
we are building new schools wallah here
have an example of a school in
haiti and if you look inside the
school you will see the difference
how now children really walk into school
meanwhile
there are still several projects that we
show because it is impossible to show them
130 projects but here you
also see a building that kony
has realized and were now a
nurse training is also taking place we
are now doing a lot of those vocational courses in
electricity and sewing here is a
sewing workshop in uganda, for example, where
about twenty machines are located
and the children themselves make their own school
uniform
so we currently work in many
countries
arie die philip lines
brazil south africa uganda and nepal and
this year two more countries will be
added namely
peru and i coast this is
how we help children underprivileged children
all over the world
we are present almost in all continents it is
not that we work in 1 place in every
customer there are twenty thirty
different places for example in
the philippines
so it has become very extensive
and for me knew its almost 40
years have
passed and i am looking forward to my two
and 70th birthday
does it sound crazy when i say it
feels like a blink
of an eye moment and i am back in haiti
when i experience the ultimate for the first time
saw a dream or despair in someone's eyes
when i turned 65
i wrote a book
lives gray across all continents
it is a book that inspire young people courage
to pursue your dream
you are all young people here
in front
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when I met you age I also had
the dream of one day becoming a nurse
and helping people and that dream
has become much bigger than I ever
dared to imagine n
I am convinced that
if you pursue the drone
you will make you very happy it
will be
fine
thank you all
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