Stichting Diwa

Videoverslag bezoek school in Pakistan door Avanta-reis

Last October the Dutch travel organisation Avanta (http://www.avantareizen.nl) organised a group journey to Pakistan. Our board members Karin Kreijkes and Jaco Groenewoud also joined the trip. During the trip one of the schools that is supported by Diwa was also visited. Below you can see a video report of that visit.

The report was kindly made available to us by Margreet Oberink.

Diwa Newsletter 5

by Jan Dirk Schouten

This fifth newsletter will inform you about the progress of Diwa's Brick Kiln Workers Education project and about our donor and awareness activities in The Netherlands.

Invitation Diwa Pre X-mas Party

Pre X-mas Pakistan Party

Friday, 16 December 2011
19:30 - 23.00hr.

Scots International Church
Schiedamse Vest 121, Rotterdam

Special guests:
Samson Masih, singer
Nadeem Basheer, tabla
Chicki, dance

Diwa Newsletter 3

Hereby you receive the third newsletter of Stichting Diwa. With this newsletter we want to keep you up-to-date with the activities of Stichting Diwa.

Ongoing issues and events

by Jan Dirk Schouten

This year Stichting Diwa has achieved much. We are very happy to announce that beginning of March 10 Diwa schools have started on locations of Brick Kilns near Gujranwala, Pakistan. At this moment about 415 children, boys and girls, are getting education in these schools. We are very thankful to our donors for the financial support of this project.

Photos brick kiln school

With the support of Stichting Diwa ten schools have now been started at brick kilns in the Punjab. The photos below give an impression of the result.

Invitation Diwa Summer Night Concert

On 12 August, in one of the most beautiful hidden gardens of Rotterdam you can hear the sound of the bansuri (bamboo flute). It is one of the oldest instruments from the rich musical tradition of India and Pakistan.

You are invited to join in.

Summer Night Concert 2011

On 12 August Diwa organises a Summer Night Concert in the lovely garden of the Swedish Church in Rotterdam. Entrance is free, but Diwa welcomes your gift to support the Brick Kiln Workers Education Project in Pakistan.

Address: Swedish Church, Parklaan 5, Rotterdam

The garden will open at 7 pm, and the concert starts at 8 pm.

Brick Kiln Workers Education Project

This year Stichting Diwa has started 10 news schools under the Brick Kiln worker Education Project in Gujranwala, Pakistan. The Schools are located on different Brick Kilns locations in the surroundings of Gujranwala.

PSTA, our partner organization, is implementing this project. Teacher selection and their training is done, and students are enrolled. PSTA has provided books to the students. Other material things such as uniforms and desks are still in process.

PSTA is busy in awareness raising meetings and forming of parents committees in the target areas, so that parents can also take responsibilities in the future.

Diwa Summer Concert

Stichting Diwa is going to organize a concert on 12 August 2011 at the beautiful garden of Swedish Church in Rotterdam. The main theme of this concert is Bansuri (flute). The flute is an important instrument in Indian/Pakistani classical music which is simply made of Bamboo. The bansuri flute plays an important role in religion as well as in stories and myths of the Indian subcontinent.

Amos Aaronson is going to play Indian Bansuri (flute) in the concert. He is an old student of Hariprasad Chaurasia, the famous bansuri-player who is teaching at the Rotterdams Conservatorium.

The purpose of this concert is fund raising for Stichting Diwa. Please come and join us to support the education of Brick Kilns children in Pakistan.

Foto's bezoek aan Pakistan

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