Newsletter

 

Dear friends

We wish you a Happy 2020!
Also this year FF of Leuven has an extremely nice program .

                                           Program 2020

1. Sunday Febr 16 at 1pm we have our annual General Meeting in ‘De Jacht Heverlee’ Naamsesteenweg 581 3001 Heverlee. Between the courses we will present the Financial Report for approval, we get a Feedback on 2019 and a Look forward on 2020-2021 . Enough time to recall memories and share new dreams. During this meeting a new board will be chosen. If you like to join us, send your candidature wit motivation to the president (Dany) and the secretary (Gaya) before January 16 2020.
Please let us know if you come to this meeting before Febr 7 and pay
55 € pp to the account BE87 734-0222894-94 of The Friendship Force of Leuven Kortrijksestraat 363 3010 Leuven mentioning ‘General Meeting’.

2. Sunday March 8 we celebrate the Day of Friendship with a visit to the museum ‘Wasrol tot dvd’ in Venlo.

3. Sunday April 26 FF Nederland Oost organizes the BeNe meeting. We can go 2 days and visit the Hoge Veluwe on Saturday.

 

4. Our journeys in 2020
                                                                                         In
FF Tarapoto, Peru 3rd week of June
HC : Dany   : (dany.vandenbroeck@gmail.com)
FF Tokyo, Japan September 11 - 18
HC HiRo :  (hiro.saika@gmail.com)

Who wants to be host?

The first week of July we help FF Limburg with hosting of FF Cornwall, UK.
HC Edith edithvrijens@hotmail.com
                                                                                        Out

FF La Serena and FF Santiago, Chile March 29 – April 21
12 people can participate, waiting list .
We estimate the cost to be €3800 for the international flights and the entire program (domestic flights, home stay, Patagonia ).
Ambassador Coordinator : Dany dany.vandenbroeck@gmail.com

FF Isle of Wight, UK September 24 - 28
Estimated price : € 500
18 persons can participate
AC : Gustave gustave.vanbellingen@gmail.com

European Conference Nürnberg, Germany  :  May 15 – 16

Regularly we inform you about exhibitions, concerts, films, lectures, … we can go to together.

5.We look ahead to 2021

March/April journey to Gifu, Nagasaki and Tokyo, Japan

Visit of FF North Colorado, US

FF Santiago, Chile

FF  Isle of Wight, UK

World Conference in Taiwan

 

6.                                                   Membership fee

 

                        60 € for a family and 35 € for a single you can pay on the account
                        BE87 7340 222894 94 of FF of Leuven Kortrijksestraat 363 3010 Leuven
                        mentioning ‘membership fee 2020’

We use the fee for :

- Annual contribution to Atlanta
- Website
- General Meeting
- Welcoming inbound journeys
- Publicity : flyers, …
- Sponsoring of ngo-projects, Artsen zonder vakantie, Natuurpunt, Hannah, Solfa, Orper, Soroptimist, Hubi & Vinciane …
- As a member of FF of Leuven you can take part in journeys of our club and all other FF-clubs in the world.

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7. Activities of other FF clubs

FF Limburg goes to Gifu, Japan in October/November 2019
FF Belgian Coast goes to Norderstedt, Germany May 10 - 14.

( be careful : use only 'www.friendshipforceleuven.com' and  not the old website 'www.theffofleuven.be' )

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                        Dany Vandenbroeck

                               president