Improving healthcare in Benin: that is what Marjan Kroone has been committed to with heart and soul for 25 years. And for her services she was today appointed Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau.
She received the award from Mayor Marco Out during a meeting of the Aktie Benin Foundation that she founded. Out: “Mrs. Marjan Kroone has worked selflessly and with dedication for years for society and the people in Benin. To the residents of Boukombé she is considered a ‘Mother Theresa’. This shows that she has been of great significance to the population of Boukombé and the health staff in the region.”
Kroone founded the foundation on January 28, 1999. The foundation’s main goal is to promote public health in Benin. For example during childbirth. Or the subsequent care for mother and child. The foundation also tries to promote education. The first four years were used to recruit sponsors and collect and ship materials. Think of: maternity cases for maternity hospitals, glasses, clothing, medicines and bandages for various homes.
A few years later, renovation of the health center in Boukombé began. In order to be able to help even better and personally supervise the construction and set up various projects, Kroone gave up her job and emigrated to Benin with her husband.
At the end of 2011 they leave for the Netherlands because the situation in Benin is too unsafe. But contact remains and so does the aid to Benin.