Friday, November 4, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
if you can dream it, you can do it!
Let me share some great news on the No Mountain Too High project…
I’m proud to announce that since the day TWEAK IT! was launched in late November 2010, we have earned about €85,000 (net!) for VANAKAM. This 85,000€ will be entirely used for the further expansion of the VANAKAM project in Uthani (www.vanakam.be ).
Some of you have been part of this ride by writing, others by buying and still some others by their enthusiasm in spreading the word about TWEAK IT!; but without any doubt whatever your contribution has been, you have made a difference for the people in the area of Uthani!
Yesterday I agreed with Christophe and Sam, the founders of VANAKAM, on the following allocations of the €85,000:
(1) Installation of the Solar Panels: (38,000€.)
The funding and the installation of the solar panels was the ultimate goal for this project. A dream becoming reality! Actually next week, we will sign a contract with M/s Star Epsel India PVT LTD for the installation of the solar panels on site. The price for the panels and the installation is about + €50,000 (Rs. 31,000,000). However, 12,000€ will be financed through a project subsidy!
(2) The remaining €47,000 will be allocated as follows:
Ø € 20,000 will be used for the building of a sewing workshop on the site in Uthani. In the workshop some of the grown-up children from the orphanage will learn to professionally sew. We hope that overtime the sewing workshop becomes a commercial sewing workshop/atelier which would make the project even more financially autonomous. This building including the purchase of sewing machines is budgeted for € 60,000. From the No Mountain Too High proceeds we will finance a third of it.
Ø We will also donate €6,000 to two other independent projects:
Ø Supporting the project of Jelle Rigole in Kerala (€3,000). He is organizing surfing classes for street children. The kids can go for free to the surf school in the weekend under the condition they go to school during the week. The project seems to be a great success.
Ø Buying football shirts and footballs for the boys’ orphanage in Kavan (Kerala) and finance one year their rise supply (€3,000). During my trip in India we visited this boy’s orphanage as well and it was shocking to see kids play football without a ball…
Ø We also agreed that VANAKAM will create a financial reserve in Belgium to overcome potential future funding issues. No Mountain Too High will contribute €21,000 to this reserve. The cash will be deposited on a bank account and will serve to bridge difficult periods.
But there is still some other good news … we still have about 2,000 books to sell which means that there is a potential for another 40,000€!!! All cost have been paid which means that every 20€ earned per book goes straight to the project! So please keep spreading the word and help selling TWEAK IT!
So again, thanks for all the support! Feel free to share this mail with people that might be interested in the project or that got the book from you!
I will send another up-date with pictures as soon as the solar panels have been installed.
Namaste!
Wim
I’m proud to announce that since the day TWEAK IT! was launched in late November 2010, we have earned about €85,000 (net!) for VANAKAM. This 85,000€ will be entirely used for the further expansion of the VANAKAM project in Uthani (www.vanakam.be ).
Some of you have been part of this ride by writing, others by buying and still some others by their enthusiasm in spreading the word about TWEAK IT!; but without any doubt whatever your contribution has been, you have made a difference for the people in the area of Uthani!
Yesterday I agreed with Christophe and Sam, the founders of VANAKAM, on the following allocations of the €85,000:
(1) Installation of the Solar Panels: (38,000€.)
The funding and the installation of the solar panels was the ultimate goal for this project. A dream becoming reality! Actually next week, we will sign a contract with M/s Star Epsel India PVT LTD for the installation of the solar panels on site. The price for the panels and the installation is about + €50,000 (Rs. 31,000,000). However, 12,000€ will be financed through a project subsidy!
(2) The remaining €47,000 will be allocated as follows:
Ø € 20,000 will be used for the building of a sewing workshop on the site in Uthani. In the workshop some of the grown-up children from the orphanage will learn to professionally sew. We hope that overtime the sewing workshop becomes a commercial sewing workshop/atelier which would make the project even more financially autonomous. This building including the purchase of sewing machines is budgeted for € 60,000. From the No Mountain Too High proceeds we will finance a third of it.
Ø We will also donate €6,000 to two other independent projects:
Ø Supporting the project of Jelle Rigole in Kerala (€3,000). He is organizing surfing classes for street children. The kids can go for free to the surf school in the weekend under the condition they go to school during the week. The project seems to be a great success.
Ø Buying football shirts and footballs for the boys’ orphanage in Kavan (Kerala) and finance one year their rise supply (€3,000). During my trip in India we visited this boy’s orphanage as well and it was shocking to see kids play football without a ball…
Ø We also agreed that VANAKAM will create a financial reserve in Belgium to overcome potential future funding issues. No Mountain Too High will contribute €21,000 to this reserve. The cash will be deposited on a bank account and will serve to bridge difficult periods.
But there is still some other good news … we still have about 2,000 books to sell which means that there is a potential for another 40,000€!!! All cost have been paid which means that every 20€ earned per book goes straight to the project! So please keep spreading the word and help selling TWEAK IT!
So again, thanks for all the support! Feel free to share this mail with people that might be interested in the project or that got the book from you!
I will send another up-date with pictures as soon as the solar panels have been installed.
Namaste!
Wim
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Masala - recensie horecaplatform.be
Masala betekent ‘geroosterd mengsel van kruiden’. Het is een term die in India haar oorsprong vindt.
Chef Alain Vanden Abeele kent India al een paar jaren en raakte niet alleen gefascineerd door het land maar vooral ook door haar keuken. Zo kwam hij op het idee om samen met chef Biju van de Malabar House in Cochin, een boek uit te brengen dat de Indiase keuken toegankelijker moet maken voor elke liefhebber. Een boek met meer dan 75 traditionele recepten, fusion gerechten, kleine hapjes en versnaperingen.
Het boek is een mix van traditionele recepten uit India, Indiase recepten met een westerse toets, streekgerechten met een Indian twist en nieuwe creaties die het beste van beide keukens samenbrengen. Op smaak gebracht met sfeerstukjes en weetjes over India door Christophe Lambert en Sam Paret en geïllustreerd met prachtige foto’s van Michèle Francken en Christophe Lambert.
Alain Vanden Abeele is al 20 jaar lang chef en zaakvoerder van Feestzaal en Catering Rustenburg. Alain nam de uitdaging aan om Indiase elementen te combineren met traditionele gerechten uit onze eigen contreien. Sterk geïntrigeerd door de mix van culturen, tradities en lokale Indische gebruiken. Christophe
Christophe Lambert heeft eveneens een passie voor India. In 1998 besloot hij zijn eerste boek te maken bij Uitgeverij Lannoo over India. ‘India, een blik in de spiegel’, kwam een jaar later uit. Samen met de opbrengsten van een concert startte hij een eigen project in India. Samen met collega Sam Paret zorgt hij voor weesmeisjes in het arme, rurale India in Tamil Nadu en betrekt de lokale bevolking bij de bouw van een veldhospitaal om te voorzien in de basisverzorging voor een twintigtal dorpen.
Momenteel werkt hij nog steeds als journalist, maar als voorzitter van Vanakam vzw gaat zijn dagelijkse aandacht naar het project in India. De opbrengst van het boek gaat volledig naar de vzw.
MASALA Alain Vanden Abeele uitgeverij Lannoo ISBN 978 90 209 9762 0
Chef Alain Vanden Abeele kent India al een paar jaren en raakte niet alleen gefascineerd door het land maar vooral ook door haar keuken. Zo kwam hij op het idee om samen met chef Biju van de Malabar House in Cochin, een boek uit te brengen dat de Indiase keuken toegankelijker moet maken voor elke liefhebber. Een boek met meer dan 75 traditionele recepten, fusion gerechten, kleine hapjes en versnaperingen.
Het boek is een mix van traditionele recepten uit India, Indiase recepten met een westerse toets, streekgerechten met een Indian twist en nieuwe creaties die het beste van beide keukens samenbrengen. Op smaak gebracht met sfeerstukjes en weetjes over India door Christophe Lambert en Sam Paret en geïllustreerd met prachtige foto’s van Michèle Francken en Christophe Lambert.
Alain Vanden Abeele is al 20 jaar lang chef en zaakvoerder van Feestzaal en Catering Rustenburg. Alain nam de uitdaging aan om Indiase elementen te combineren met traditionele gerechten uit onze eigen contreien. Sterk geïntrigeerd door de mix van culturen, tradities en lokale Indische gebruiken. Christophe
Christophe Lambert heeft eveneens een passie voor India. In 1998 besloot hij zijn eerste boek te maken bij Uitgeverij Lannoo over India. ‘India, een blik in de spiegel’, kwam een jaar later uit. Samen met de opbrengsten van een concert startte hij een eigen project in India. Samen met collega Sam Paret zorgt hij voor weesmeisjes in het arme, rurale India in Tamil Nadu en betrekt de lokale bevolking bij de bouw van een veldhospitaal om te voorzien in de basisverzorging voor een twintigtal dorpen.
Momenteel werkt hij nog steeds als journalist, maar als voorzitter van Vanakam vzw gaat zijn dagelijkse aandacht naar het project in India. De opbrengst van het boek gaat volledig naar de vzw.
MASALA Alain Vanden Abeele uitgeverij Lannoo ISBN 978 90 209 9762 0
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Harry Kraemer on value based leadership
Harry Kraemer was CEO of Baxter in the period I was working there.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Masala
Christophe en Sam lanceren – samen met Chef Alain Vanden Abeele - hun nieuw boek!
Dit maal geen boek over coaching … maar een Indisch kookboek:
" Masala, veel meer dan een kookboek uit India "
Op vrijdag 29 april begint de Culinaire Indische Week van Vanakam met de voorstelling van het boek dan wordt er een Walking Receptie georganizeerd om 8PM in Loods Raj (Kogelstraat 36 ; 9000 GENT) ten voordele van Vanakam.
Inschrijven kan door een mail te sturen naar info@vanakam.be en 50€ pp over te schrijven op: 068-2450064-65
Dit maal geen boek over coaching … maar een Indisch kookboek:
" Masala, veel meer dan een kookboek uit India "
Op vrijdag 29 april begint de Culinaire Indische Week van Vanakam met de voorstelling van het boek dan wordt er een Walking Receptie georganizeerd om 8PM in Loods Raj (Kogelstraat 36 ; 9000 GENT) ten voordele van Vanakam.
Inschrijven kan door een mail te sturen naar info@vanakam.be en 50€ pp over te schrijven op: 068-2450064-65
Saturday, March 26, 2011
TWEAK IT! story keeps on spreading
Last week TWEAK IT! has been presented to the BASF management team and on the Bekaert Leadership Journey.
We have a few others in the pipe ...
TWEAK IT! starts its second life ...
Friday, March 4, 2011
Incredible India
Incredible India: colors, smiles, kids, temples, Uthani, Mensch Trust, Vanakam, nature, culture, structured chaos, (new) friends, laughs, discussions, warmth, back waters, bookshops, night train, Cochin, Trichy, poverty, wealth, Kashi art café, barber, yoga, sequence, ... trekzak, night train, religions, kingfisher, Ghandi, la valse triste, smokeman, driving, leaving, emotions, emotions, impressions, impressions …
oh boy, ... already one week back in the office ... but committed more than ever to support Christophe & Sam in pursuing their dreams of making Uthani and its surrounding villages a better place!!
In the next few weeks we will share a a plan on how to allocate the collected funds from the sale of TWEAK IT!
Dream & Do, there is no mountain too high!
Wim
Sunday, February 13, 2011
This is it!
This is it!
We are leaving on Tuesday to India with at the end of the trip a couple of days on site in UTHANI.
I have travelled a lot - on all continents - but this is my first time to India, this will be different, very different …. This project started with a flash of inspiration during a vacation in Cyprus and resulted so far into the magic launch of TWEAK IT! in the Bijloke! We have sold more than 7,000 books and have now the funds to realize Christophe and Sam’s dream: the installation of the solar panels to make the field hospital self-sufficient.
Some of you wrote a chapter or a testimonial in TWEAK IT!, some of you bought 99 books (or more), some helped spreading the word and all of you helped TWEAKING … so before leaving … a last word of THANKS for all this support, energy, enthusiasm, this has been a fascinating journey … and for sure … the best is yet to come!
I will try to drop a daily word on Facebook and on my blog.
dream & do, there is no mountain too high!
Wim
We are leaving on Tuesday to India with at the end of the trip a couple of days on site in UTHANI.
I have travelled a lot - on all continents - but this is my first time to India, this will be different, very different …. This project started with a flash of inspiration during a vacation in Cyprus and resulted so far into the magic launch of TWEAK IT! in the Bijloke! We have sold more than 7,000 books and have now the funds to realize Christophe and Sam’s dream: the installation of the solar panels to make the field hospital self-sufficient.
Some of you wrote a chapter or a testimonial in TWEAK IT!, some of you bought 99 books (or more), some helped spreading the word and all of you helped TWEAKING … so before leaving … a last word of THANKS for all this support, energy, enthusiasm, this has been a fascinating journey … and for sure … the best is yet to come!
I will try to drop a daily word on Facebook and on my blog.
dream & do, there is no mountain too high!
Wim
Sunday, January 2, 2011
2011 - our goals...
Our goals for 2011:
(1) collect the cash of the 7,000 copies that have been sold;
(2) sell, ship, bill and collect the remaining 3,000 copies;
(3) bring TWEAK IT! through a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend… to 99 authentic leaders/heroes to have it signed and annotated;
(4) travel to India in February to visit Vanakam and plan for the installation of the solar panels;
(5) organize a few other innovating fundraising events through No Mountain Too High
January 2 … the music is playing again, everybody is dancing again… happy 2011!
Wim
(1) collect the cash of the 7,000 copies that have been sold;
(2) sell, ship, bill and collect the remaining 3,000 copies;
(3) bring TWEAK IT! through a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend… to 99 authentic leaders/heroes to have it signed and annotated;
(4) travel to India in February to visit Vanakam and plan for the installation of the solar panels;
(5) organize a few other innovating fundraising events through No Mountain Too High
January 2 … the music is playing again, everybody is dancing again… happy 2011!
Wim
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