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PURE! Countryside Bicycle tour
04-05-2011 12:43
Since a few weeks, the PURE! Countryside Bicycle tour has been a fact. While cycling through the beautiful countryside of Cambodia, you meet the country, culture and our PURE! Dream Centre. With special breaks at the houses of three families – of which the children make their dreams come true at our PURE! Dream Centre – you also support the local community.
Through the countryside around Siem Reap, the tour… Read more
Opening new office in Maastricht
21-12-2011 11:43
From the 1st of December 2011 we opened a second office in The Netherlands. If you are interested in our activities and you want more information about volunteering, the PURE! Dream Centre, Fairtrade or Travel in Cambodia, Bali or Thailand. Please come by and visit us!
You're welcome to walk in and visit our office during weekdays. Joyce Mulleners will be there to welcome you.
Headoffice PURE!
Nicoline Westen
Hoogveen… Read more
Text & Town
22-11-2011 12:13
Too much read literature?
Donate them to the new Popup bookhotspot in Town!
The income of the event Text & Town goes to PURE! for kids.
For donate your literature lease contact us by email: info@pureforkids.org
What? Tekst & Town PopUp bookmarket
Where? Townhouse Designhotel Maastricht, St. Maartenslaan 5, the Netherlands
When? Sunday the 11th of december, 14.00-17.00
More info? Visit www.tekstenstijl.nl
We look forward to meet you at Text… Read more
Sports Day
11-11-2011 10:07
On the last day of their volunteer work, four PURE! volunteers organized a sports day! This is their story:
Hi all,
Past four weeks, we (Djura, Diede, Nynke and Anneke) have had an impressive time in Cambodia. Late September, the four of us left to Siem Reap for four weeks to do volunteer work. We have worked for one of the projects of Pure. It has been very special for the four of us… Read more
Flooding in Cambodia
27-10-2011 12:28
Terrifying and heartbreaking are the images on the news programms in South East Asia. Near the borders of Thailand and Cambodia have been a lot of rain. Large parts of Cambodia have been flooded because of much more rain than usual in the raining season.
The area Siem Reap and some of the partner projects have also been affected. Some of them have been closed for nearly two weeks because of the high water. The rice fields have been… Read more
Programm Meet & Greet
21-10-2011 12:30
PURE! organizes a Meet & Greet for all former volunteers, future volunteers, volunteers in the Netherlands, employees, directors, sponsors, family, friends and anyone with a heart for Cambodia, Thailand or Bali. A nice moment to share memories, but also to get to know PURE!
Saturday November 19th
Location: Café de Heffer, Oudebrugsteeg 7 Amsterdam
Time: 19.30 pm
program:
19.30 Entry and welcome drink
20.00 pm Opening by Millennium Rapper MC Lazy
20.30 hour film about Cambodia
The rest of… Read more
Programm Meet & Greet
20-10-2011 12:33
PURE! organizes a Meet & Greet for all former volunteers, future volunteers, volunteers in the Netherlands, employees, directors, sponsors, family, friends and anyone with a heart for Cambodia, Thailand or Bali. A nice moment to share memories, but also to get to know PURE!
Saturday November 19th
Location: Café de Heffer, Oudebrugsteeg 7 Amsterdam
Time: 19.30 pm
program:
19.30 Entry and welcome drink
20.00 pm Opening by Millennium Rapper MC Lazy
20.30 hour film about Cambodia
The rest of… Read more
New projects at the Cambodian countryside
17-10-2011 09:00
Besides our projects in Siem Reap, we offer volunteers new opportunities in the countryside of Battambang . This second largest city of Cambodia is a lot less touristic than Siem Reap and gives you a unique insight into the real Cambodian life. At our partner project you can teach English at a local elementary school or do construction work at the school or in the local community. For more information… Read more
Floodings Siem Reap
17-10-2011 08:59
For the third time this month, the centre of Siem Reap is flooded. The projects in the lower parts of Siem Reap can no longer be reached, and it is getting more and more difficult to reach the other projects. Four of our volunteers will help with the distribution of food in the community of their flooded project. With a tractor they will try to reach the area. For the other volunteers our moto and tuk tuk drivers do their best to get them to their project as dry as possible. Read more
Projects Bali online
23-09-2011 12:08
Besides the project in Thailand and Cambodia, it is also possible for volunteers to sign up for Bali. After a special trip to this beautiful island we have chosen two projects where volunteers can work. This can be at a school in the east of Bali or at a project where children who are mentally challenged have the opportunity to get free education. Applications are possible in the short term… Read more
NEW: projects Thailand online!
31-07-2011 10:18
After an inspiring week in Thailand we choose two wonderfull projects to work with. Do you want to help teaching at one of our projects? We are working with public schools and with a Burmese Learning Centre in the South West of Thailand. Please have a look at our projects or contact us by info@pureforkids.org.
'Having no experience with teaching, nor with working with children, I was quite worried whether… Read more
New website & destinations
29-06-2011 14:37
Finally after months of hard work our new PURE! website is online, with more information and new destinations. Yes! PURE! is expanding, our roots are in Cambodia and we will continue to focus on that, but in addition we will also focus on working together with small volunteering projects in Bali and Thailand. It is possible to start volunteering with these new projects from autumn 2011. Soon more information will… Read more
Meet & Greet: will you join us?
23-05-2011 11:52
On Saturday June 25 PURE! organizes a Meet & Greet for all former volunteers, new volunteers, volunteers in the Netherlands, employees, board members, sponsors, family, friends and anyone who shares our passion for Cambodia. A nice moment to share memories but of course also the possibility to learn more about PURE!.
We are looking forward to see you! Please let us know if you will join us on June 25… Read more
An unforgettable summer in Cambodia
27-04-2011 13:49
Did you always had a secret wish to volunteer abroad? Apply now to volunteer with PURE! in Cambodia this summer. PURE! provides comprehensive information on the project and accompanies you on the way to Cambodia. In Cambodia there is always a project coordinator for you ready to answer all your questions and help you when needed. In four weeks you can already make a real difference for disadvantaged children. There are… Read more
Dance marathon for lunch program a great success!
27-04-2011 13:48
Former volunteer Corine Frank has taken the initiative to organize an event for PURE! at the primary school where she works. Corine made different groups of primary school ‘de Wingerd’ in Zwolle (The Netherlands) enthusiastic about Cambodia and our PURE! Dream Centre with her stories, pictures and movies.
The children actively started to find sponsors for the dance marathon which Corine organized. The children could be sponsored per dancing minute… Read more
Party time
27-04-2011 13:45
Next week it's vacation, it's Khmer New Year! This is the official new year in Cambodia. It's a holiday to enjoy with your family, friends to go out to the pagoda, eat curry and party. So it's also time to have a party at the PURE! Dream Centre.
Friday evening our PURE! staff had a dinner together, a very special night for some of them because they can never go… Read more
Expand to Battambang
27-04-2011 13:40
Besides the current possibilities of volunteering in Siem Reap, PURE! also offers you the opportunity to make a difference for projects in Battambang. In the coming months we will test some projects in this typical Cambodian provincial town. Battambang is not as touristic as Siem Reap, which allows you to experience the real Cambodian life and easily connect with the local people.
Your main task at the projects in Battambang is to… Read more
New: internships in Cambodia
27-04-2011 13:14
As from today, opportunities for internships with PURE! in Cambodia can be found on our website. Do you want to work on a temporary assignment, then this is your chance! Have a look at our projects and read more on the various possibilities and assignments that we offer at our PURE! Dream Centre and our partner projects. Do you have the right education and/or qualifications and do you want to… Read more
Partner project starts Young Adult House
27-04-2011 13:05
As of next month 9 young adults will be living in the Young Adult House of one of our partner projects. There they will be given the opportunity to live on their own. They will learn to take care of themselves and to become independent adults. A remarkable initiative in Cambodia where the young adults generally don’t get much attention.
The 9 young adults chosen for the Young Adult Programme… Read more
Record number of volunteers
27-04-2011 13:03
It has been on the cards for a while and now time has come; the record for the most PURE! volunteers in Siem Reap has been broken. In January no less that 16 people put their shoulders to the wheel. Now, at the start of February, the arrival of Anne and Isolde brought the number to 18! A busy but above all social group with which we make a huge… Read more
Tekst & Town a success
21-12-2011 11:37
The first edition of Tekst & Town in Maastricht, The Netherlands, was a success. A book event where you can enjoy novels, thrillers and other books and donate to our organization. Together with Tekst & Stijl and TownHouse Hotels we made this happen. Thanks for this great day and the donation to our PURE! Dream Centre. Read more
A fair Christmas with the Fairtrade Christmas hampers of PURE!
28-10-2011 16:47
Give a Fairtrade Christmas hamper this Christmas! PURE! enables companies to celebrate a fair Christmas with our Smateria/PURE! Christmas hampers. All packages are supply with beautuful unique products made of recycled mosquito nets from Cambodia, a donation voucher and information about our foundation. By ordering a Christmas hamper you will support our foundation and our vision for 2012!
Interested in other Fairtrade products of PURE!? Visit our web site: www.purefairtrade.nl.
View… Read more
Jewelry PURE! by Loven Ramos
10-05-2011 10:54
Exclusive the Netherlands. Unique and a few pieces per model available at PURE! Fair Trade.
Loven Ramos is a talented artist working with recycled materials and fair trade. Everything is handmade and comes from Cambodia.
Do you sell products? That may be, please contact us at info@purefairtrade.nl
"Handmade earth friendly accessories made from recycled components by local artisans in the Kingdom of Cambodia. By wearing themself, you help in sustaining… Read more
So Cathy Fair Trade top 40
10-04-2011 10:49
This week in the top 40 SoCathy Fair Trade products Smateria. With the special promotional code will get you 10-20% off selected items. Also visit the website for 5 socathy selected products.
Webshop is only in Dutch Read more
December gifts by PURE! Fair Trade
01-12-2010 10:51
Looking for fun and durable Santa Claus or Christmas gifts? How about an original handmade bag Smateria?
Loven Ramos or a jewel? You can be sure that nobody else 'm, because each necklace or bracelet is unique!
All materials of the products are at least 68% recycled, so good for the environment and children of our projects in Cambodia where PURE! works with.
Webshop is only in Dutch Read more
Fiesta La Vida!
20-02-2012 10:36
All the proceeds of Lifestyle event Fiesta La Vide will go to PURE! Dream Centre in Cambodia!
Date: 13 April 2012
Place: Stadskanaal, the Netherlands
www.fiestalavida.nl Read more
The first "workshop day"
23-01-2012 13:35
We have many new plans and ideas for 2012. And the first of these plans, the workshop day, kicked off on Friday the 13th. (Yes, we like a challenge.)
The idea behind the workshop day is that the children can choose individually what they would like to do. This means there needs to be a large and diverse offering of workshops for the children to pick from. And the workshops… Read more
The football league is back…..
23-01-2012 12:25
.…..and once again it was great fun.
What do you need for a successful Sunday morning:
• Two enthusiastic teams, pure A and pure B, consisting of 28 players and 6 supporting classmates
• A lot of equally enthusiastic opponents
• A large number of volunteers who organise this event each year
• Two (slightly smaller than usual) football pitches, you won't hear us complain about grass. If there's… Read more
Me & My World
21-12-2011 11:31
Several times a year there is a theme week at the PDC and previous times, the hygiene and healthy eating topics are also discussed. We called this theme week Me and my World. The experiences of the children here is limited to the school and life in the community. They can not easily imagine where we come from and how far it is. We treat this issue in several theme… Read more
Start vocational training sewing
30-11-2011 17:05
Tuesday November 15th was a special day for PURE! for Kids. This day PURE! started with a vocational training program in sewing! With the sewing course girls and women in the community of the PURE! Dream Centre have now the opportunity to follow vocational training in their neighbourhood.
Sixteen women from the community showed their interest. At the actual start fourteen young women turned up for the probation period of… Read more
Khmer lessons have started!
25-11-2011 12:48
A lot has already been said and written about the Khmer lessons. We have started! The children had to get used to the fact that they would be spending more time per day at school and that they would be taught by teachers they already knew from the public school.
But besides the students, the teachers also had to get used to these new lessons. We performed the job interviews… Read more
Training for Khmer teachers
28-10-2011 11:37
As you all may know PURE! intends to give Khmer lessons in addition to the children at the PDC as soon as possible. Normally we would leave subjects such as language to the Public School. Unfortunately, test results show that the children have lack of Khmer knowledge. The consequence of these delays can be that they can’t follow other subjects because they can’t manage the basic skills. Which in many… Read more
Beautiful new uniforms with bright white blouses
20-10-2011 10:09
Monday, October 10, all our kids got a new uniform for the Public School. The Public School started one week earlier, but starting a new schoolyear in Cambodia is different from the Netherlands. The first week (sometimes even weeks) mainly consist of meetings of the teachers and recording sessions. We are glad they classify our children again in the morning and afternoon. There's made an exception for 2 children in our green group, they exchange to our orange group.… Read more
Theme week Healthy Food
15-09-2011 05:52
This week we have a special theme week at the PURE! Dream Center about healthy food and digestion. All the lessons, English, sports, computer class and workshops, will be related to this subject.
Not having enough healthy food or a variety of food you get short out of nutrients and vitamins. It will slow down development and growth of the children. They are probably not aware of the importance of… Read more
A new sink
28-08-2011 20:15
Since the beginning of the PDC children brush their teeth daily. Important because their teeth have a lot to endure. Brushing with toothpaste is for most people very expensive. In Cambodia people clean themselves at the pump or in a ditch. The children brushed their teeth outside all the time to brush and rinse their mouth with water from the pump. Although it was not strange for us, it was a little bit dirty. It's daily 60 mouthwashes.
Two… Read more
Physiotherapy for Nieng
09-08-2011 13:58
Nieng is the youngest son of our cook Kee. His two older brothers Samnang and Sey Ha are both students at the PURE! Dream Centre. Nieng is 4 years old and has a kind of spasm. At the PDC we have known Nieng for a while, he joins his brothers regularly to the PDC when no one can watch him. At first he found it a bit scary, but nowadays he seems to enjoy… Read more
Great danceperformance at PURE! Dream Centre
21-07-2011 17:59
For several weeks the children have been working together with the volunteers. Work, work, work! They made hats, bracelets, necklaces, masks, rattles and skirts and of course they practiced a lot of songs and dances. Invitations were even made for parents, brothers and sisters, just a few days before the performance. Everybody was welcome to join.
People coming to watch the performance made it even more exciting for the children!… Read more
The lunch program started!
22-06-2011 11:08
It was an exciting week at our PURE! Dream Centre. After a year of raising funds for a kitchen, a dining area and food for one year, we finally started with the lunch program last Friday. The office in Siem Reap has been filled with plates, bowls, lockable bins, pans, dishes and cups for days. Everything was washed and dried, and then packed for transportation to our centre. Of course,… Read more
More mothers involved in our home-based program!
15-06-2011 12:21
Last week, the second group of mothers started the pilot phase of the home-based program. This time it is up to a group of 15 women! It is busy at our PURE! Dream Centre but great to have these women around.
The previous group of women learned how to create products of palm leaves, and this group is learning how to work with a combination of rattan and palm tree.… Read more
Cycling race Buchten great success
30-05-2011 13:25
Despite the bad weather in Limburg (The Netherlands), 120 cyclists participated in the annual cycle tour for charity. This tour was organized by ‘Mulleners Vastgoed’ and the motto of the tour was “we ride for PURE! for Kids”. Like last year, the tour was a great success and on behalf of the PURE! team we would like to thank the initiators and participants for their support and efforts. Read more
New classrooms at the PDC
23-05-2011 11:43
This week the Living Values classroom moved to the new classroom outside and this means that the first room of the new school building is in use! Last week when the brand new tables were delivered, everything was complete and we could start moving. The room where previously the Living Values lessons were given, is now used as a library. Bopha, the teacher of Living Values, and the children are… Read more
Home-based project with mothers launched
16-05-2011 14:16
The idea existed for a long time already and a lot of preparations were necessary , but since this week the home-based production program at our PURE! Dream Center is a reality. It is a project where disadvantaged women in the beginning mainly the mothers of the PDC kids, learn to make products from natural materials, materials that are easy and inexpensive to obtain. With the new skills they learn,… Read more
That's why a healthy lunch is required!
03-05-2011 15:35
Last Friday, April 29, as many as seven employees of the Angkor Hospital for children visited our PURE! Dream Centre the entire day. This hospital provides free care annually to up to 120.000 children in Siem Reap and the surrounding area. The Angkor Hospital’s outreach program visits places like our PURE! Dream Centre to check the children’s health.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, they arrived with all kinds of… Read more
PURE! Dream Centre 1 year!
27-04-2011 13:42
Last year at April 1st, the leader of the Kandek community requested PURE! to start an educational center. After one year we have: 60 students, six new classrooms, a kitchen, a house for our staff members Sitha and Bopha, a sports field, nine Cambodian staff members and a qualitative educational program. A real PURE! Dream Centre (PDC). Not to mention our future plans...
In a nutshell
The large shed which… Read more
The Giant Puppet Parade
27-04-2011 13:17
On Saturday the 19th of February 2011 we were allowed to join the Giant Puppet Parade with our PURE! Dream Centre (PDC). A yearly recurring and very popular creative event for underprivileged children in and around Siem Reap. The Giant Puppet Parade can be compared to an actual carnival parade. A true spectacle!
Each group of participants prepared something different for the parade. The children of the PDC made clouds… Read more
Mothers visit PDC
27-04-2011 13:07
The PURE! Dream Centre has already been open for 10 months. Time to get to know the mothers of our eager children a bit better. Seemingly a parent day, last week the mothers were given the chance to see what we are all working on.
In the past 10 months quite a few mothers already dropped by but not everyone dared to make the step. A shame as it is… Read more
1%PROJECT accomplished!
27-04-2011 12:55
In barely a month time we succeeded in raising € 1.917 euro – through the 1%CLUB – for our project ‘Pots, pans and ladles to make Cambodian dreams come true’. With the support of no less than 171 1%MEMBERS the great result shows that together we can really make a difference. The 60 eager pupils of the PURE! Dream Centre (PDC) are yet one step closer to a daily nutritious… Read more
New home for Sitha and Bopha
27-04-2011 12:53
Sitha (the Cambodian assistant coordinator of the PURE! Dream Centre) and Bopha (our Cambodian social worker) have moved into their new house. Their own place on the grounds of the PURE! Dream Centre (PDC).
Sitha and Bopha are very pleased with their own place. For the past few months they lived together in a room of 12 m2. Now they have a beautiful house, especially for Cambodian standards. The house… Read more