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Suriname - AIDS |
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Suriname is a beautifull tropical country is South America. It has a half million inhabitants. The capital is Paramaribo. The number of aids or HIV infected people is approximately three thousand. The number of infected children is not known exactly but it will surely grow in the near future. The Government has a limited budget for the huge problem of aids and is spending the most at preventing it. This means already infected children depend on help from elsewhere. Because these infected children need special care a children’s home is important for them. |
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Het Parelhuis (The Pearlhouse) |
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In June 2001 at the Previenlaan in Paramaribo a house was rent and very soon the first three kids entered their new home. It was opened officially on October 10, 2002, by the first lady of Suriname Mrs. Venitiaan. Het Parelhuis will offer HIV infected children a real home where love and acceptance are the main themes.
The house will slowly grow to ultimately 12 children. The cost will than be about € 3000,- pro month. All that is possible will be paid in Suriname. In the Netherlands a foundation will support whenever necessary and possible. |
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Annie Bischop |
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Annie was born on January 30, 1944. She has grown up in a Christian family of 10 persons in the small village Weerdinge in the Netherlands. Annie’s Father gave during his lifetime much energy and time at the children’s home Samuel in Paramaribo. Once, when Annie visited with her father Suriname, she knew it for sure, this is the country I am going to spend my life. |
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When in 1970 by the Dutch Reformed Church a nurse was needed for working with the Indians in Suriname Annie applied for this job. She was at that time a qualified nurse working in a Hospital in the Netherlands. The same year she left for Suriname and returned only for short periods of holidays. After six years working with the Indians she started a home for mentally and physically handicapped children at Paramaribo. The house grew within 20 years to a place where 30 people have found their home. |
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In the meantime Annie was confronted with the need of HIV infected children. During her holiday in the Netherlands, spring 2001, she collected goods and money to start a new children’s home in Paramaribo.
From where her courage at the age of 57 to make a new start? Her Christian faith plays a main role. Annie belongs to the First Baptist Church of Emmen. She believes that problems you are confronted with, at the same time mean a task to fulfil . In her first Christmas Greetings from the newly opened Parelhuis she wrote: “How the future will be, I don’t know, but God knows and that will do it” In this faith she is started, in this faith she hopes to continue |
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