Delta Lloyd Group is making a donation today to the Ubuntu Theatre Organisation via the Delta Lloyd Group Foundation, to mark Delta Lloyd’s flotation.
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Delta Lloyd Group is making a donation today to the Ubuntu Theatre Organisation via the Delta Lloyd Group Foundation, to mark Delta Lloyd’s flotation.
Niek Hoek, CEO of Delta Lloyd Group, is to present a cheque for €60,000 to Renske Hofman from Ubuntu Theatre Organisation during today’s "gong ceremony" at Euronext Amsterdam. This donation will allow three Amsterdam primary schools to take part in the "What is Value" project-week.
In this creative and informative project-week, pupils in all classes at the three primary schools will learn about the everyday lives of children their age in Namibia. Using the "What is Value?!" booklet, the children will be given all sorts of assignments and will learn about the differences and similarities between life in the Netherlands and in Namibia.
Over the course of the project-week children will learn everything about saving, spending, evaluating risks and making choices. At the end of the week the children will collect money for this good cause. Under the slogan: "A chance for me, a chance for you", they will be encouraged to think up ways of earning money for children their age in Namibia.
Niek Hoek, CEO of Delta Lloyd Group and chairman of the Delta Lloyd Group Foundation, had this to say about the "What is Value" project-week: “Sometimes when a company is floated it just seems to revolve around the value of the share. That is important of course, but real value is so much more. This project offers precisely that insight into the concept of value. The project also fits perfectly with the concept behind the Delta Lloyd Group Foundation: to encourage people to be more financially self-confident and self-reliant.”
Renske Hofman from Ubuntu Theatre Organisation is delighted with the donation: “Ubuntu is incredibly grateful to Delta Lloyd Group Foundation for this donation! One of our mottos is that opportunities create opportunities and that is what is happening now. Thanks to the project-weeks we are managing to reach out to a really large group of children and their community, both in the Netherlands and in a developing country, in this case Namibia.
"The special thing about this week is the great variety of assignments and the different styles of learning addressed. The week is crammed full of maths, languages, geography and history, without any sign of a text-book. One boy at a school in Enkhuizen had this to say about the pilot project: 'If school was like this every day, I would never need the holidays'.”
Ubuntu Theatre Organisation developed the "What is Value" project-week last year, at the request of Delta Lloyd Group Foundation. An investigation commissioned by Delta Lloyd Group Foundation had shown that young people have little understanding of the value of money.
This project stimulates children to learn about the value of items and belongings but also of intangible things. Children are encouraged to ask themselves: “What is worth more? Playing a game with your dad or a Nintendo DS?", "A carton of milk or a pen?" “What is worth more: having lots of friends or being rich?’
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Notes to editors:
Delta Lloyd Group Foundation
Delta Lloyd Group Foundation was set up on 1 January 2008 with the aim of stimulating social solutions for financial self-reliance in The Netherlands. The projects and initiatives supported or set up by the Foundation focus on preventing or resolving the financial difficulties encountered in vulnerable groups in society. Delta Lloyd Group Foundation’s strategy to achieve this involves education, information, advice and support in the form of funds, material and people.
Ubuntu Theatre Organisation
Ubuntu Theatre Organisation was founded in June 2006. Ubuntu uses theatre as a way to increase the opportunities for vulnerable, deprived children in developing countries. Ubuntu Theatre Organisation supports the rehabilitation of children through increasing personal and social skills and helping them to realise their potential and capabilities.
Ubuntu Theatre Organisation also organises project-weeks at primary schools in the Netherlands so that children can learn in a stimulating way about the everyday lives of children their age in developing countries. In this way Ubuntu encourages children to take an active interest and a link is formed between children over here and over there. Ubuntu means: To be human is to work together!