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Supporting Children in Soccer and Scholarships |
Ans Scholten isn’t a person who just sits around and talks about the weather on her holidays. Her recent visit to family and friends back home in the Netherlands was also a time to raise money for the Foundation for the Education of Rural Children, help launch a new charity in her late husband’s name raise awareness about charitable giving among the youngsters in area soccer clubs as well as her extended family.
Her visit coincided with the 60th anniversary of the volley ball club, Sarto, and it was the perfect opportunity to announce the new Jo Wolfgang Foundation. The Jo Wolfgang Foundation will support girls’ volleyball in the Netherlands. This event also offered Ans an opportunity to talk a bit about FERC, and the big donation jar that was displayed was a place to collect donations for both FERC and the Jo Wolfgang Foundation.
Jo and Ans retired from the family candy business in Holland and moved to Chiang Mai in 2004. Ans says that they had spent their holidays here for fifteen years before choosing it as a retirement destination, and it “just felt right”. From the Netherlands, she laughs that they were always “looking for the sun”. For many years they had talked about waiting until they were 65 and then traveling all over the world. But, as fate would have it, they were able to retire when Jo was only 61. Their lives in Chiang Mai were filled with friends, working with FERC and as volunteer teachers at the school in their village, longs walks, bicycling, the seashore and birding. In 2009, recovering well from hip surgery, Jo suddenly had a heart attack and died. He was 65 years old.
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