We would like to express our sincere thanks to Jooke van den Boomen, the chairman of the well known foundation Haagse Hopjes of Transvaal in The Hague, who has donated a very special encyclopedia books of Medicinal information to the students of Suriname. Further more our outmost thanks and appreciation to Geeta Bihariesingh, who has dedicated her spare time to collect second hand Dutch schoolbooks and donated these books to SIVA4KIDS Foundation for further transportation to Suriname, please be noted that this is the second year in a row that Geetha Bihariesingh has contributed this way to help the children of Suriname.

The second hand Dutch school books which are being transported to Suriname, has been collected, storaged and distributed to the basic schools in Suriname by “Stichting U-CARE” of Wanica, which are involved in development project for children, women and the community since 2006 in Suriname.

If you would like to support BOOK4KIDS project of SIVA4KIDS Foundation in The Netherlands, please contact us at info@siva4kids.org or if you would like to support directly to U-CARE foundation please log on to website:

Dutch article: 2008 – PENS4KIDS and BOOKS4KIDS in Paramaribo, Suriname

Paramaribo -  Stichting U Care heeft vorige week vrijdag, in samenwerking met Stichting Shiva for Kids in Nederland, een schenking gedaan aan OS Boxel.  Het ging bij deze om lees- en leerboeken, pennen en encyclopedieën. Verder zijn er 4 leertafels geschonken voor de mediatheek van de school. De vertegenwoordiger van Stichting U Care, Reshmi Bihariesingh, zegt in gesprek met DBS dat de schenking als ondersteuning van de kinderen gezien moet worden. Volgens Bihariesingh zijn de encyclopedieën geschonken door de familie Poeran, aan wie veel dank verschuldigd is. Het is naar zeggen van de vertegenwoordiger niet de eerste keer dat de school ondersteuning krijgt van de stichting. ‘We hebben al eerder geholpen met renovatie van de school. Qua leermiddelen, is dit wel de eerste keer.’

Het ligt in de lijn der verwachtingen dat de school voor meer ‘verrassingen’ in aanmerking komt. Wat al de geschonken spullen gekost hebben, maakt volgens Bihariesingh niet veel uit en is ook niet van belang. ‘We doen het voor de kinderen en geld is momenteel niet aan de orde.’

Het schoolhoofd van OS Boxel, Rita Soerohardjo РDjosari, zegt bijzonder blij en ingenomen te zijn met de geste. Vooral de tafels en boeken kan ze heel goed gebruiken in de opkomende mediatheek, die nog niet helemaal af is. ‘Het voldoet nog niet aan de eisen waaraan een mediatheek moet voldoen.’ Zo moet de ruimte nog voorzien worden van airconditioning en moeten computers aangeschaft worden. Volgens het schoolhoofd worden de kinderen op haar school gestimuleerd om boeken te lezen. De school telt momenteel 130 leerlingen.

Bron: DBSURINAME.com

The 2nd PC4KIDS of SIVA4KIDS Foundation has started succesfully on the beginning of the year 2008. The PC4KIDS project, contains 40 PC’s and accessories, which were donated last year (29th of October) by ROC Amsterdam ICT department. As you already could read in our newsletter, we were looking for sponsors to support this 2nd PC4KIDS project of SIVA4KIDS.org and thanks to the Scandinavian Expat recruitment company “Scandi-jobs.com”, the 40PC’s are now sent to destination, Paramaribo, Suriname.

The board of SIVA4KIDS Foundation would like to thank our main sponsor the Scandinavian Expat Recruitment Company¬†Scandi-jobs.com for donating the half of the shipping cost and the other half for the graphich school’s Director Robert Peneux of Avond IMEAO / Avond HAVO / Middag IMEAO / MHAS, who¬†are very happy and eagered to support financially and implement this project as soon as the goods arrives to Paramaribo, Suriname.

We also would like to thank the Amsterdam Suriname Service Line for the kind support on picking/packing/shipping the computers&the accessories with big care and very safty.
“We are very happy to contribute in this way to support a good cause in our mother land” said a worker at SSL Amsterdam, while packing the goods very carefully.

Through the 2nd PC4KIDS project which will benefit more then 1000 kids in Avond IMEAO / Avond HAVO / Middag IMEAO / MHAS in Paramaribo, Suriname, South America, we at SIVA4KIDS Foundation wishing the Director Robert Peunex of the / Avond HAVO / Middag IMEAO / MHAS a succesful start on this project and will keep supporting this school, through SIVA4KIDS volunteer in Suriname and other study materials in the future.

This will be the 2nd PC4KIDS project, which is supported by ROC Amsterdam ICT department this year. The 40 PC’s are to support a school, where more then 1000 students will get benefit from this co-operation between ROC Amsterdam, SIVA4KIDS Foundation and the school in Paramaribo, Suriname.

SIVA4KIDS Foundation is in search of companies, which are willing to sponsor the¬†shipping-cost of these 40 PC’s to Paramaribo. If you are a company and you will like to support this project please email us at for how you can contribute to help 1000 students in South America.info@siva4kids.org

On the 28th of January 2007 ROC Amsterdam ICT dept. of the school donated 10 PCs (+accessories) and 1 printer (View Gallery) for an upcoming ICT project in Paramaribo, Suriname. This PC4KIDS Project would be the first one of 3 PC4KIDS Projects of SIVA4KIDS.org in South America where a similar project is also in plan to be realized in Colombia for 642 children by  the support of a global ICT Company, which is also located in Amsterdam. The SIVA4KIDS foundation has realized similar projects for tsunami affected school children in Sri Lanka (2005) and in India (2006).

The PC4KIDS Project in Suriname is planned to be realized in coming June 2007. This is a very unique project since the project coordinator is not only a volunteer of SIVA4KIDS.org but also the ICT Teacher of the ROC Amsterdam School and the same volunteer went to the same basic school in Paramaribo during his childhood. Therefore the foundation is very enthusiastic about announcing another optimistic project which is coordinated by the Dutch Hindustan ICT teacher, Ashok Joerawan, who was born in Suriname. Siva for Kids Foundation is responsible for the transportation and monitoring of the progress of this project, which we expect to support the ICT development of the 196 children in the basic school in Paramaribo.

We are also very proud to announce when this project has been completed then SIVA4KIDS.org will be reaching a unique target of helping 1.000 children in 2 continents (Asia and South America) and 3 different third world countries like India, Sri Lanka and Suriname. All this was possible only because of the hardwork and positive actions from our volunteers and sponsors so far.

SIVA4KIDS.org is hoping to find companies which will be interested in supporting and sponsoring this project  in order to help the children of Suriname in Summer. If you are interested in joining this project as a volunteer, support or sponsoring this project, please email: info@siva4kids.org for more details. Thank you very much.