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NEWS STICHTING LETTER BOUWEN MET BOUMA’S In this edition: From the chairman Things are going to change AVG privacy law Half a loaf…... Retrospect Herman Bouma The board The container Meeting of friends BmB Letter of thanks Longe In Memoriam Finance Plans 2019 Activities in 2018 Newsletter Bouwen1 met Bouma’s - year 13, 2018-2019 Introduction From the chairman At the front page: The foundation Bouwen As you can read in the latest newsletter Peter Wezenberg met Bouma’s (Building with has stepped down as chairman of the foundation. As a “The flags”: Bouma’s) has been erected foundation we owe Peter a big thanks for his efforts in BmB, Fryslan and Zambia. in 2005. Four brothers recent years. In addition to the presidency, Peter has also Bouma (Durk, Willem, made a strong commitment to bringing in donations all Herman and Klaas) have The boxes from the last these years. Thanks Peter! conainer. visited Zambia for the first time in 2006, together with As a new chairman, I would like to introduce myself to you. Yt, Durk’s wife. My name is Wytze Bouma, son of Willem and Mony from Warns. Willem, together with his brothers and sisters, took A fifth brother, Johannes the initiative to start the foundation. I live with Engelien Bouma, was a missionary and our youngest son in Balk. Our two other boys live in for years in Zambia. He was Deventer and Apeldoorn. From the start of the foundation and is the big inspiration I have felt very involved in the work in Zambia. In 2009 I source for the foundation. therefore went to Zambia for 6 weeks to help build a new He also brought us in contact with people of the school for adult education. It was a very special experience. local BmB-board that we Nowadays the local board in Zambia determines more and can rely on. more where money and energy is invested. I think that is a good development. Locally you can see and feel much With physical and financial support for small-scale better what the needs are. The emphasis in recent years (building-)projects, the has shifted from building to facilitating construction. foundation tries to make a As board of the foundation we are going to think about world of difference. the future to come. How can we, as Bouwen met Bouma's, best contribute to a good future for the population in the Kaoma region? As a new chairman, I would like to make an effort to do that. Your support as a donor is indispensable in this. Wytze Bouma At the photo: Wytze in Zambia. 2 Things are going to change AVG privacy law Last year Piet Mous and Antoon Haagen tried, over a As you have undoubtedly heard from the media, the period of six weeks, to teach six Zambians the intricacies General Data Protection Regulation (AVG) came into of the carpentry profession. That worked perfectly well, effect on 25 May. Because of this new privacy legislation, but it also screamed for a follow up. we are not allowed to keep and use data from our In February the BmB board and I started brainstorming donors and newsletter readers without permission. As far on how we would be able to the continue. There is a craft as our foundation is concerned, the basic principle is school in Kaoma, the Trade Center, but there are no car- openness and transparency in obtaining and storing pentry lessons given for lack of course participants. Can these data. BmB enter into a partnership with the school so that they In our donor administration, all the donors have the na- can make a restart? me and residence details as well as the donated amount. We continued to talk in July. The Trade Center shows This data is only used by the treasurer for the financial interest, provided: There must be at least ten students administration and by the donor administrator for the who have to meet their requirements. Courses can be distribution of our newsletter, once a year. In addition, given for three months, but also a two-year course to most people at our request have given their email become an all-round carpenter. What does the two-year address to us so that we can receive our newsletter. This course cost? Converted into Euros, approximately information is stored in the email file of the newsletter. € 240,= per person per year. This must continue. "Our six All details of our donors and readers are not offered to students" are very motivated, so they are looking for four third parties and are only managed by the board of the more highly motivated pupils. This may also be girls / foundation. If we show people identifiable in the women. newsletter, it is with the permission of the person or In September I returned to the Netherlands in good persons depicted. Everyone has the right to get clarity spirit. The only question that remained was how much about how we use the data. Everyone also has the right time the school needs to make a new start. Months? Half to have data disappeared, as a result of which you will no a year? Maybe even longer? No! On October 1st we were longer receive the newsletters. In this way we can informed that the course will start on January 14th 2019. optimally protect the privacy of our donors and readers. Hopefully this is the starting signal for an even broader partnership between the Trade Center and Stichting Bouwen met Bouma's. Coordinator / photographer, Herman Bouma. 3 Half a loaf…... The saying half a loaf is better than none is an skilled placing of blocks and bricks to build a invitation to be content with what has been most usable construction for whatever achieved, even if one had desired to reach it purpose, was drawn to another, equally little higher. Truly, a content person is a happy necessary, aspect of building operations, one and therefore a blessing to himself and to namely carpentry. Two highly qualified those around him. Yet half a loaf gives no carpenters took in 2017 the place of the four reason to be complacent neither to disconti- builders. The BmB newsletter of 2017/18 nue desiring honestly for a worthwhile “more” informed us that the two did not only work by examining further possibilities, and aspire successfully, but also with great joy and grati- after that. With BmB a similar development fication. Moreover, on the photo the beaming had gradually already appeared on the scene. and grateful faces of the men that had most In its ten year jubilee newsletter the question diligently followed, and with success passed was posed whether BmB was entitled to be the carpentry course tell their own story. And grateful for the works being done. After a for- this is not yet all. Through further deliberati- mative response to that question, a second ons and discussions this year between the one was raised: “can it be stated that BmB has BmB boards in The Netherlands and Zambia completed its job after these ten years?”. That even wider doors might be opened through a question was responded to by a convincing possible cooperation with the local technical “no, surely not”. The following year at the school at Kaoma. In realizing this latest dream BmB Foundation meeting in a most pleasant Bmb might well inhale refreshing new life and relaxed atmosphere at Joure honest ques- leading to an even greater assurance of her tions were raised and a number of proposals fruit bearing continuation. BmB thus wishes to brought forward in a search for above maintain her deepest motivation behind her ““I have told you this so mentioned “more”. These were mainly brought activity from the onset, based on the challen- that my joy may be in you to the fore by the workers in the field, namely ging words of Jesus to approach one another and your joy may be the builders who had gathered quite a bit of with respect and genuine works of love, that complete. This is my experience in Zambia. The, at first sight they be a joyful reflection of the manner in commandment: love one unfortunate mishap in failing to get as usually which he loves all of us. another as I love you”. John, 15. 11-12. four builders together for 2017, might prove to become a positive change into the right p. Johannes Bouma cmm direction. The attention paid thus far to the Missionaris van Mariannhill , St. Paul, Arcen At the photo: The beaming and grateful faces of the men that had most diligently followed, and with success passed the carpentry course tell their own story. …. 4 Retrospect Herman Bouma February 2018. July 2018. The mothershelter and the school for disabled people The wall and the latrines are done. I have to admit, the wall requested BmB several times to build a wall around the is a big improvement. It is not a waste of money! Thanks to two buildings. For the mothershelter they also asked for the wall, no one can just enter the grounds. Fortunately, two latrines because many women from the bush have no this also goes for the pigs and goats. The children there- idea how to use a water closet. Building latrines feels like a fore immediately started with the construction of a step back in time and is the wall really necessary? With vegetable garden! some reluctance, BmB has decided to grant these wishes BmB has been fighting for years with the electricity this year.