“Auction for the benefit of the Buurmeisje campaign”   It is Christmas 2024 when my neighbor girl from the side street, only 26 years old, is to be rushed to the hospital by ambulance. She appears to have had a stroke. Unfortunately, she will have another one a few days later. Now, a few months later, she is staying in a rehabilitation center and for a few weeks now she has been allowed and able to go home from Saturday to Sunday. This, as you will understand, with the necessary temporary adjustments in the house. Her status up to now is that she can no longer see anything with her left eye and with her other eye only 40% so far. She can also only walk a few meters with the help of a walking frame, can no longer move her left arm and the rest she is dependent on a wheelchair. What her future will look like is still a big question for both the doctors and the medical staff from the rehabilitation center. Every evening, and this has been the case for months, I see father, mother and her younger sister getting into the car on the way to her. And believe me, as a father and grandfather of a fortunately healthy group of children as grandchildren, this is heartbreaking. Let alone how it must be for those parents and the little sister. Something inside me told me to set up something from the pigeon sport. This is also the reason for this voucher-pigeon sale. And with the entire proceeds I want to surprise them later so that when things are hopefully going a bit better, they can go out together. Just as a family, just let everything be as far as it can and is possible. That is why I first want to thank everyone who spontaneously responded to my suddenly set up action for their contribution. I also want to thank those who did not donate a pigeon or voucher but made a financial contribution. And finally I want to thank GPS as well as HDV Duivenkoerier for their promised cooperation in this!!! People, thank you on behalf of the family because one thing is certain, it will be more than well received and people will certainly shed an extra tear because this has been made possible. Thank you on behalf of my friends from the pigeon sport. Signed Johan Hamstra