Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Team leader

Natasja Massink

Board Members

Alyanne Huisman (secretary / relations)
Justyna Majchrzak (promotion)
Michiel Klaassen (acquisition)

University Advisor

Drs. A. R. M. Gigengack and Dr. L. Voerman.

Mission

Make a positive difference in the lives of others by teaching and inspiring them!

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About SIFE Groningen University

In the past, our relatively small team, has already finished several projects and has helped many people help themselves. This year, we decided to focus on improving our existing projects. In addition, due to team growth, now 15 members and counting, we were also able to start thinking of new projects. We briefly discuss two of our five projects below.

Find Your Balance:

Two years ago, because of the increasing number of young people in the Netherlands getting into debts, we organized workshops about financial management for high school students in Groningen. This year, under a new name and with a new approach, we decided to re-start this project. We improved the quality of the workshops and made them more interactive. In April we will have our first workshop.

WanaZiwi:

This international project aims at providing economic opportunities for a group of deaf women in the Dodoma district in Tanzania. With this project we want these women to become financially independent, by helping them set up their own (sewing) business, and teaching them the skills to run it. This year we received our first donation from the Lions Club Ooststellingwerf, and we are participating in an Easter project to raise money for projects in Africa (one of them being the WanaZiwi project) at the CSG Dingstede in Meppel. The school is giving its students 5 euro to multiply for the projects and we gave them a workshop about microkredit and entrepreneurship to help them do so. Preparations are done in by our team as well as by the women in Tanzania, and we hope, when time and money permits, to start the workshops during the summer.

In addition to these two projects, we are also working with young mothers (Return of the Mummies) and asylum seekers (Take Your Chance) in the city of Groningen, and are exploring the options for a (new) project in Afghanistan. For these projects we would like to refer you to our website.