From our international volunteer Aranka van Dalen (the Netherlands).
On Saturday, the 9th of August we celebrated Women’s day. We started al little later than planned, but the day was still a big success! The attendance was great, the whole Green church was full of women; in total we welcomed over 350 women. Our programme consisted of speeches, sing and dance performance and initiatives of the women themselves. The singers of the day were: Janine Van Balla, Prudence and Basil. They are all local people with beautiful voices and we were very glad they wanted to sing during this special day. The dancers were all Rainbow groups which created wonderful choreographies. A special thanks for them, we know how hard they worked to give the perfect performance and they did it! You could see that the women really enjoyed all the performance because they started singing and dancing as well! It was so wonderful to see how happy they were and we are glad we can do that for the Vrygrond women. The highlight of Women’s day was the moment some women from Vrygrond stood up and shared their stories with the other women. Very sad stories about their tough life and abusing. We’re very proud of this strong women to stand up and share all their stories, even though it’s very hard for them to talk about it. This women are really an example of independent women and they’re an inspiration for the other women. In shot Women’s day was a big success because of the enthusiasm of the women, the deployment our staff and our sponsors: Coca Cola and Jive.