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About us

The foundation is initiated by Mrs. Marjan van Mourik and Dr. Daniel Paz y Geuze in 1999. In december 1998, Marjan van Mourik was on holiday in Peru and happened to get in touch with the ‘street children’s’-project of in Cusco.

In June that year she returned to further learn about the needs and possibilities for starting a project on her own. It appeared that the Lions club in Cusco just had kicked of a program aimed at the lowest social classes of the people in and around Cusco. For this program they were looking for medical teams that could possibly help out. When back in Rotterdam, Marjan discussed the possibilities to support the efforts of the Lions Club in Cusco and encountered an unexpected and spontaneous enthusiasm. The Academic Hospital in Rotterdam was more than willing to help with expert knowledge as well as by sending medical teams to fix the job in Cusco. Dr. Daniel Paz y Geuze is helping his country Peru already for a long time by executing operations on children from time to time. He also collects and ships medical tools and goods to help Peruvian hospitals. However, he was more and more looking for some kind of continuity and a more structural and durable way of cooperating with local Peruvian hospitals in his home town Arequipa as well as in other locations in Peru. Marjan van Mourik and Dr. Paz understood each other and all things fell in place: the foundation As. PAZ-Holandesa became a reality.

Rob Evers

Rob Evers

Chairman

Rob Evers team consultant for companies and organizations. He leads the bureau Team Band. He has a background as a marketer / business administration, certified trainer / coach and a reserve officer in the Royal Army.

The formation of Rob Evers starts fighting for the family business from his father and grandfather. It makes him someone looking for ways to bring people in different companies make better interact. Internal competition and individualism transformedinto solidarity in teams. Not against each other but with each other.
As a young gas station attendant he learns a lot of customer focus and tough competition. Scouting and school camps were lessons for team leadership and create solidarity, which he develops in student and military service. Since then he has been active reservist in the Army. After studying business economics he performs marketing functions in food and beverage companies. During his MBA studies (Kingston University, UK), he is one of the team leaders for a reorganization of a multinational. He is co-owner of a production company for multimedia and later interim manager. Since 2004 he supervises teams in companies that want to strengthen their effectiveness, cooperation and mutual bonds. His experiences as a reservist with its broadcasts to the Balkans and Afghanistan, are an important source of inspiration.

The end of 2011 he published his book ” Team through the fire, nine armed lessons for managers ”

Monique van Driel -Kristel

Monique van Driel -Kristel

Treasurer

 Monique van Driel has a background as a nurse, personnel officer and shiatsu therapist.

Outside a trip to the business she has always worked in the hospital and she had a shiatsu practice.

Several years she was secretary treasurer of a national medical association.

Marieke Gieteling

Marieke Gieteling

Secretary

Marieke Gieteling was born in Cuba and spent her childhood in Peru. After her medical studies she worked from 2001 to 2003 as a doctor in our children’s outpatient clinic. All this has created a great bond for her with Peru. Now she works as a GP in Moordrecht and together with her husband Kees Jan Korving, also a doctor, a wonderful family with three young children. The combination of her experience to live and work in Peru and her profession as a general practitioner, is a tremendous addition to her as a board member.