Meet the Heemstra Family!

Over the next few months, we would like to introduce you to some of the incredible families we get to live alongside of  here in Maseru. We have one Dutch family in our school: the Heemstras. They are very dear to our hearts. Here is what they have to say...

The Heemstras

We are so blessed by the coming of Beth and Dawn. We’d love to share some of that with you, but let me first introduce ourselves. We are the Heemstra family from Holland and we’re privileged to have served Lesotho for five years now. We’re proud of our four kids: Manoah (7), Jiddo (5), Kamiel (3) and Luuk (1). Boukje is a mom at home and Jakob Jan works as a registered nurse. He has set up a local clinic in the rural area in the mountains of Moteng, here in Lesotho. He also volunteers in a local clinic in Maseru. He, along with some local pastors, does outreaches to the shepherd boys by handing out Megavoices (solar charged audio Bible). He also set up a cultural focussed HIV-education with a Basotho friend. Together they also run a Christian lifeskill program in the youth prison. We’re blessed to be a blessing!

Since the birth of Luuk, homeschooling the other kids grew into a more challenging task, especially for Manoah because of all the academics. We were so happy to find out the Fennema’s were coming. Our Dutch sisters from far away :) 

Manoah loves going to the school. The first weeks she woke up 5 o’clock in the morning: more than 2 hours earlier than normal. She is so excited about school and the teachers. Us too, they really have a beautiful individual approach and insight in the kids. Manoah wrote a little about them for you. “I love the teachers because they are sweet.” She wrote in Dutch, because if you talk about what you love, it’s best to express yourself in your mother tongue, isn’t it?  

Manoah's Note

We’d like to encourage you to support them in any way you can, because we know how important it is that people got your back all the way from home.

Manoah with the shield she made at school