Yesterday I was in Groningen. Actually it was the ’suburb’ Haren, and even more specific in pavilion Kaap Hoorn. A great location near a beautiful lake and with a trendy interior.

We were in Haren to manage our first chairity event. There were about 75 guests. Together with them, our volunteers and a list full of sponsors we achieved to gather a large amount of money!! Not for ourselves, but for a development project called ‘Corazon Inquieto’ in La Paz (Bolivia). This project helps poor children of the indian people. There is no money to let the children go to school and no time (the parents must work hard to buy enough food) to give the children the attention that is so critical and essential when you’re young. Corazon Inquieto is a day care center for children. They get a meal, attention, love and the chance to actually play with toys and other kids. Essential for their evolvement.

It was touching to see what you can do with motivated people and the shared will to succeed. Something I read in a book (The Greatness Guide, by Robin Sharma) was what happened this evening. I also believe in the fact that if you are open minded and do positive things in life, life will be good for you, too.

By organizing this single evening we managed to keep an important child project open for this whole year. With the money we can pay five Bolivian employees, buy food and toys and manage some essential healthcare. That’s something to celebrate I believe !!