| Report Charity Party 18-9-04 |
Saturday September 18th was a big day for the Flowgi Foundation, the big charity party. After months of preparations, meetings, arranging catering, music, entertainment and staff the day could begin. And it happened !!! 4.30 PM The doors of the Hageveld College were opened for the audience, many people were already waiting outside. There was a small traffic jam which is very unusual on a Saturday afternoon. 5.45 PM The Master of Ceremony Mr. Hanry Vaasen opened the evening with a short speech in which he presented the board of Flowgi on the stage. 06.00 PM Many people were looking forward to the next item of the program. The famous TV cook Lonny gave a cooking demonstration, he created delicious Indonesian food and explained a lot about the used spices. It was a very interesting item. 07.00 PM An Indonesian buffet was prepared and all guests (330) were invited to enjoy the dinner. 08.00 PM The chairman of the Flowgi Foundation Mr.Kees Hoekstra gave a presentation about Flowgi, what did we do, what are we doing, what are our future plans and also how is Flowgi working. Off course he also recommended the Flowgi Foundation and told the audience the need of new sponsors. 08.30 PM Mr. L. v.d. Pieterman, head of KLM Building Services hold a speech in which he indicated the importance of being a sponsor of Flowgi in order to get the jobs done. As an excellent example he announced to become a new sponsor. 09.00 PM A very nice performance of Lonny and Sandra, entertaining the audience with some beautiful Indonesian songs. 10.00 PM A Balinese dance performed by Made Stevens who lives in Holland but was born in Bali. 10.30 PM After weeks of practising some ladies from gave a perfect Line Dance performance, which made the audience very enthusiastic. During the whole evening the band played very nice Indonesian music. Already during the evening people came with very nice initiatives in order to collect money for Flowgi, a football club will collect money during the games they play, a billboard is offered to be hung next to a very busy highway, a schoolteacher offered to start a project at her school and also new sponsors were already reported. Without making things bigger than they are we can say that this evening was : FANTASTIC!! We received a lot of positive emails and reactions. The board of Flowgi Foundation is very much motivated by all these positive supports and we will work very hard to realise all the projects for the children in Indonesia. Finally we want to thank all the people, young and old, who helped us to make the evening succesful. See here the pictures of the evening..... |
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| Last update: 24-09-2004 by: Kees |
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