Exploring the Netherland’s Humanitarian Landscape (with a few Vermeers and Van Goghs and Rembrandts thrown in for our pleasure and yours)
The Dutch women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are amazing. They organized a women’s conference, held in Utrecht (in the middle of the small country). They had speakers and musicians and yoga classes and spiritual meditation. They also had a lot of humanitarian projects going on. In the end, humanitarian projects are often much more difficult to arrange and organize than to do. Wonderful women like Shayna and Rachelle and Sheila, all from different stakes, rose to the challenge. They researched charities in the Netherlands that could use their help, and then they organized the 500 women who attended, so anyone who wanted to help with humanitarian projects could. We came along too. We assembled hygiene kits for a women’s shelter for asylum seekers who have been turned down by the government but want to keep on trying to become refugees. We assembled art kits for children at shelters. We assembled more hygiene kits for poorer women in the Netherlands. We sorted b...