Open hearts for kids with cancer
"Thank you for the difference you made. It just goes to show - a biker is not a bad person. His heart is right and if your heart is right, the outside doesn't matter."This is what Rudolf Schoonbee of the Stofpad Project said during the Motorcycle for Miracles event on Saturday, when motorcyclists donated toiletries and toys to children with cancer at the Windhoek Central Hospital.
"This morning it fills my heart with joy to see where a biker's heart lies. The bakkie is full and at the office there are two more bakkie loads full of items I have for these kids. I appreciate you and I honour you," he said.
A group of around 30 motorcyclists drove from the Truck Port in Kleine Kuppe to the hospital on Saturday morning to surprise the children with the toiletries and toys.
The event was organised by Schoonbee, in collaboration with the Free Chapter 1st Windhoek Namibia club.
Other motorcycle clubs also attended the event and Pastor Cas Becker blessed the hospital, its staff and the children. He also thanked the group of motorcyclists for the difference they are making. "I just want to say well done. Please do it again and again and again. It's great to see how a community makes a difference."
Becker also asked in his prayer that the help the children received on Saturday would give them hope, healing and breakthroughs so that later in their lives they could say: "There was someone who believed in me or someone who cared enough to give me a chance."
Marlise Izaaks, Free Chapter's charity officer, said that meeting the children and listening to their stories moved her. "A 13-year-old boy, for whom I went to pray in the hall, did not want to let go of my hand. They hardly ever get visitors - it's just those gloomy white walls they look at. The boy's mother died a few days after his birth and his father made him a place to sleep next to his son's bed.
"He can't just leave his son there and can't work either, because he looks after his son alone. The boy has been in the hospital since January," Izaaks said. "It's hard to be there and not think and wonder again. – [email protected]