Tamdrin ‘Mama’ Dadhon sold her family business, gathered the proceeds of the teahouse and with 300,000 Yuan and a lot of courage started Dickey´s Orphanage in Lhasa, Tibet´s capital, on September 10th 2002. In Tibetan ‘diki’ means ‘fine’ and ‘happiness’. At the moment Dickey´s is home to 73 children. Most of them are between six and nine years of age. The youngest is ten months old. They all get lodging, tuition and medical aid. …
Artist Bram Vanesche donatet 10% of his profits during his exhibition ‘Lieflijk cynisme’. The exhibion ran from september 10th until October 28th at the cultural centre Luchtbal, Colombiastraat 110, 2030 Antwerpen.
Vernissage was on Friday September 9th at 8pm.
Open Ateliers is an art project in the city of Antwerp. During Open Ateliers artists have an open house, showing their studios and work to visitors.
During Open Ateliers 2011 nine art studios donated 10% of their profits to Dickey Orphanage through the art4life project.
Noor Springael en Liesbet Wante—glass art
Klapdorp 95, 2000 Antwerpen
Veronika Langerova - photography
De Marbaixstraat 31, 2060 Antwerpen
La Piscine d’Activité—visual arts
Lange Brilstraat 4, 2000 Antwerpen
Kristine Van Roosbroeck—paintings and stained glass
Keizerstraat 26, 2000 Antwerpen
Herman Todts– paintings on canvas
Pater Damiaanstraat 70, 2610 Wilrijk
Eliane Scheepers– oil and acrylic paintings
Bolivarplaats 76, 2000 Antwerpen
Freddy Gommers– installation
Noorderlaan 28, 2000 Antwerpen
Bertsarah– pen drawings on acrylic paper
Lange Leemstraat 437,2018 Antwerpen
Willy Bolssens– paintings, drawings with mixed techniques
Bisschopstraat, 37 – 2060 Antwerpen
On August 20th 2011 the City of Antwerp organised the ‘Bollekesfeest’. Part of this culinary event was the ‘Soup of the City’, a soup contest for local organisations. Nine teams contested for the title Soup of the City. The goal was to decorate a stall, prepare 50 litres of fresh soup, promote your organisation, hand out the soup and clean up. All this in two hours time! With a team of volunteers we prepared a delicious banana soup with chicken broth, tomatoes, bananas and curry. We seemed to be running out of time, but in 10 minutes all 50 litres of soup were distributed! We took this opportunity to promote the next stand-up comedy fundraiser with Nigel Williams. Some 250 flyers landed in eager hands. Quite some people wanted to know more about Dickey Orphanage. We did not win a prize, but we received an honourable mention. Thanks to our thrifty shopping, we managed to drop quite a few coins into Dickey’s piggy bank. Thank you very much to all the volunteers who helped to make it a great day and a lovely soup. Special thanks goes to the young princess of the kitchen who appeared out of nowhere to help us out. Thanks also to Benjamin who took the pictures. We had no time for that in the banana madness…
The Antwerp-based comedian Nigel Williams performed a stand-up comedy show on Sunday November 27th to help raise money for Dickey’s. The venue was COStA, Sint-Andriesplaats in Antwerp. We sold 60 tickets, postcards and calenders and raised about 1000 euro for the children.
On March 5th 2011, Belgian comedian Lies Lefever and Dutch comedian Bas Birker performed a stand-up comedy show to raise money for Dickey’s. The event took place at the Antwerp cultural centre CoStA at 8.30pm.
On September 1st, Amala and twenty-five children left for Shanghai. A monastery in Shanghai sponsored the five-day trip to the Shanghai World Expo. On returning to Dickey’s, everyone celebrated the childrens’ and the orphanage’s birthday on September 10th.
From September 9th 2010 until January 1st 2011 the “Tsenkher” photo exhibition can be visited at Cafe Multatuli, LangeVlierstraat in Antwerp, Belgium.
You can shop at the Spreadshirt shop of Dickey’s Orphanage. For every t-shirt that was created by Sarah, 5 euro will be transferred to a bank account for Dickey’s Orphanage. This money will be used to generate more funds for Dickey’s and help Amala Dadhon sustain the home. Thank you.
During the fall and winter of 2009 several fundraising events took place in Antwerp, Belgium. In September, I took part in two flea markets selling old books and cd’s, clothes, tableware etc. that was donated by friends and family. One market was on the St. Andries square, the other on Antwerp’s left bank organised by a local radio station.
In November, Alex Agnew, performed his stand-up comedy at the coStA culture house in Antwerp, Belgium. The concert was sold out in no time. Some 130 people bought tickets and enjoyed an evening of great comedy.
In December, we celebrated the opening of the photo exhibition “Tsenkher” with cookies and bishop’s wine at Den Hopsack, Antwerp, Belgium. There was live music with jazzy Demi Sec
The Antwerp-based Dutch artist Bert Sarah will permanently donate ten percent of his art sales to Dickey Orphanage. He makes drawings with the famous BIC ballpoints only. With only blue, red, green and black available he manages to create a colourful and wonderous world on paper. This drawing is his interpretation of the famous words by the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet, “To live like a tree single and at liberty and brotherly like the trees of a forest this yearning is ours”.
admin: Dear Yvonne, Thank you for your interest in the children at Dickey's. You can use that postal address for sending the toys. The zip code is 85000.
Yvonne Perrin: I visited Dickey orphanage on Saturday 15th October 2011 while traveling with Travel Directors. I noticed how much the children enjoyed a small knitted teddy bear donated by one of...
Josef Danner: Wir bereisen China im August 2011,wie auch Lhasa und möchten dieses Projekt besuchen , filmisch dokumentieren und vor Ort finanziell unterstützen! Was sollten wir dabei beachten? Was brauchen die Kinder ?