PBI making space for peace

Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts.When invited, they send teams of volunteers into areas of repression and conflict. The volunteers accompany human rights defenders, their organizations and others threatened by political violence. Perpetrators of human rights abuses usually do not want the world to witness their actions. The presence of volunteers backed by a support network helps to deter violence. PBI CREATES SPACE for local activists to work for social justice and human rights.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

February 18th we go off to Jakarta!

Finally, after more then a year of preparing, we go to Indonesia. On Monday 18th of February we fly from Amsterdam to Jakarta to start our big PBI adventure. We are very excited and we (especially Harold) feel some tension. It feels strange and sad to leave all our family, friends and our rabbit behind...
At this moment we are finishing things up here, arrange the visa and soon we will be packing, hihi. Besides that we are planning a (our) wedding, eeks! On the 25th of February we start in languageschool in Yogjakarta. We already had a languagecourse in the Netherlands in the last few months with guru Pak Herman. Thanks to him we are already a bit familiar with Bahasa Indonesia. But there is still a lot to learn! We are looking forward to our languageschool in Yogjakarta and meeting all the other PBI guys.

On April the first we fly back home for two weeks for our wedding and goodbye party on the 4th of April and after that we will be off untill February 2010.
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