tim and maz celebrate in holland

tim with some of the sports students

tim and maz have been away in europe for a couple of weeks now and during their stay they had the opportunity to travel to holland to join the celebrations at were taking place at the HAN university that the village of hope have relationship with.

maz with some of the social work students

the celebrations were around the 10 year partnership that the HAN university have with our local theewaterskloof (TWK) municipality, the local grabouw town manager as well as other people from south africa had made the trip to holland to meet up and share with some of the students that had completed their internship in grabouw.

it was a joy for tim and maz to catch up with so many of the students who had spent their internship at the village of hope over the last five years and it was interesting to here about their career moves since graduating from university.

the automotive facility at the HAN

it was funny to see all the students together in one place and as they were all from different year groups they really didn't know each other that well so we gathered the sports management students, social work or nutritional students together and introduced them to each other!.

during the day they were shown round the vast university campus, made up of over 28,000 students, and the tutors explained some of the subjects that the HAN offer, including automotive development, water management and design technology.

towards the end of the day we gathered in one of the huge lecture theaters where students gave their thoughts around the time that they had spent in grabouw, which was very insightful and the day ended with a braai for over 200 of us who shared our stories and caught up on the things the students were doing.

if you would like to read more about the day and the partnership created between the university and the municipality then please follow this link.