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On Friday March 15th and Saturday March 16th of 2019, Saba Lions Club in cooperation with the Oranje Fonds will bring to you, the first edition of SABA DOET, the largest volunteer event on Saba and in the Kingdom.
SABA DOET is ‘Make a Difference Day’ and gives you the opportunity to give back to the community Sign up with or for a volunteer project on the www.sabadoet.com and participate in the kingdom’s biggest volunteer event.
Funding available!
Deadline for project funding is 31 January 2019
SABA DOET: Saba’s national volunteer event
The Lions Club and the Oranje Fonds are proud to bring you the first edition of SABA DOET on March 15 &16, 2019.
The DOET initiative started within the Kingdom over 14 years ago, firstly in the Netherlands, with the Dutch Caribbean islands joining in shortly thereafter. Today there is NLdoet (The Netherlands), ARUBA DOET (Aruba), BON DOET (Bonaire), CURA DOET (Curaçao), STATIA DOET (St. Eustatius), SXM DOET (Sint Maarten) and now SABA DOET (Saba). These initiatives highlight volunteering as well as volunteers themselves, while encouraging every one to roll up their sleeves for (part of) a day, giving everyone a fulllfilling and gratifying feeling of a day well spent, ensuring that community serving organizations get the help they need and deserve.
Heart and Soul
Volunteers are the heart and soul of community organizations and SABA DOET and the Oranje Fonds are emphasizing the importance for our community to have actively engaged citizens helping to make a difference as one whole unit. What’s more is that SABA DOET is on a mission to help improve the general idea of volunteering and community service by showing how fun and creative it can really be.
The Oranje Fonds & Lions Club Saba
The Oranje Fonds is the biggest national fund in the arena of social well-being and showcases the best the Kingdom has to offer. Around €30 million euros are spent each year supporting organizations and initiatives that strengthen social cohesion in The Netherlands and the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima are the official patrons of the Fund, as the organization was gifted to them on their wedding day in 2002. For more information visit www.oranjefonds.nl
Lions Club Saba is non-profit organization that supports the financing of programs and projects of various organizations via their crowd-funding platform. We also encourages volunteerism, “volun-tourism”, and philanthropy in the Saba community.
Contact us today
We are here to assist social organizations and volunteers with any questions and/or additional information. Please feel free to e-mail us at sabalionsdoet@gmail.com or call us at +599 4163700 or +599 4169500
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In order to execute all of the projects on March 15th and 16th, the participating organizations need a lot of resources. This may include materials such as paint, wood and gloves, or seedlings for a community garden, but also light drinks and snacks to provide to the volunteers.
In 2018, more than thirty (30) social organizations participated with the help of over 1800 volunteers to complete 108 different projects. The first four editions of SABA DOET were very successful and this time around we are hard at work to make this first edition a roaring success.
SABA DOET will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 15th & 16th, 2019. Along with NLdoet, BON DOET, CURA DOET, Statia DOET and ARUBA DOET this community-driven initiative is the largest of its kind in the entire Kingdom.