October 2016

It has been a while since the sponsordinner 2016 took place: 17the of September.  The preparations start like usually in February every year. This year we did it differently because of the 5-year anniversary. We have worked together with ‘Van de Plas Horecagroep’  who had proposed to have the sponsor dinner in the ‘Bug Church’  at the ‘Kerkpleintje’  in the heart of the city ‘s-Hertogenbosch. After we’ve taken everything into consideration, we’d deciced to do that.

The invitations could be made, flyers and posters were printed and after that we could start the whole organization! After 6 months we were ready! Shawn, the manager of Kiota, had arrived in The Netherlands as well to see for example what we all do here as Kumbatio to provide the children of Kiota a healthy life and a better future. "I'm impressed by what you do! It's a lot, a lot! I couldn't image all this!", he noticed.

That it was a very successful evening was to be seen. The tables looked marvelous, the atmosphere was lovely and there were 88 guests! Great! The evening started at 5.30pm and a few volunteers who had been in Kiota before shared their experiences. Shawn presented as well and it showed that he is full of passion for Kiota. Next to that we all could dance together with Aboubacar!

The whole evening was a very nice one and we could close the evening at 10.15pm with a good feeling.

We would like to thank Antwan v.d. Plas (Van de Plas Horecagroep) a lot for his enthousiasm and all the support, the Big Church for the offering of this venue, Myriam Tijdink (Tijdink & Tijding) who took care of the food and Aboubacar (Africa United) for the African dance part!

We are busy to think about the organization of next year! Would you like to be involved? Do you have any ideas? Let us know!