Benefactor Jan van der Gracht is organizing an Easter egg hunt in the city playground of Hoorn for the seventeenth time this year. Everyone is welcome during the Easter egg hunt. “Whether you are rich or poor, it doesn’t matter. A child is a child and that’s what matters to him,” says Jan. “It is a great happening for the children, then they are out and about.”
Jan likes to dedicate himself to others and he has been doing so for years. He does not like to sit still and every year at Easter he collects Easter eggs for a search in the city playground. “Children are the future,” says Jan. “We have to be careful with that. You don’t know how they will be in twenty years.” Together with friends and volunteers he hid a lot of eggs this morning.
“What I have left after such a day all goes to the retirement home,” says Jan. He often sits at the supermarket to collect groceries for people who need it badly. That’s how he got the Easter eggs too. “I think it’s 250 kilos,” he says happily.
Tasty snack
Not only the children are happy with the Easter egg hunt, parents also enjoy it. “Then they have something to do at Easter,” says a mother. “Especially tasty sweets. They have a lot of fun with it.”
Jan does a lot for the people in Hoorn and he doesn’t think about stopping yet. “I’ll do it while I can still do it. Next year I’ll be 70, I hope I can still do it when I’m 90.”