courtesy of: Aruba-Daily News
About one-hundred students from two elementary schools, Pieter Boer in San Nicolas and Pius X in Oranjestad, were guests of Fundacion Respeta Bida, Semper Corda, at the Wilhelmina Park in the gardens surrounding the Anne Frank statue. The purpose of the gathering was to educate students on the significance of peace and to make them part of a constructive community that builds a better future for Aruba.
Foundation President Diana Pieters-Gonzalez, and her board members put together an excellent program including poetry readings about peace, songs with the theme of peace, the planting of an olive tree, and the making of paper doves, both symbols of peace, and a visit to Aruba’s Prime Minister with letters suggesting positive changes in the community in the name of coexistence, tolerance and harmony. The students all received commemorative tee-shirts, and enjoyed refreshments at the end of the morning at the Renaissance Convention Center.
The following companies made it all possible: Aruba Bank with a donation, Renaissance Convention Center, with the use of the facility, EMCO NV with the printed foundation buttons donation, Subway N.V. with lunch boxes and soft drinks, Maybelline Arends Croes and her Melange singers with their musical tribute to peace, Munye Oduber Winklaar and her students, with their dramatic reading about peace, Flora Market with soil for planting, Marketing Plus NV, and all volunteers without whom the activity would not have been possible.
