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Empowering children with equal opportunities and brighter futures
We help children between the age of 8 and 12 to develop themselves.
Let us tell you more about our story.
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What do we do?
Within our foundation, we help children in various ways. Providing food, education and sports daily.
Food
CBA provides children healthy and balanced meals and explains nutrition, table etiquette and personal hygiene.
Education
The children receive education from certified teaching staff. The teachers supervise the education part and also provide the necessary support to the other employees. The way of education is done in consultation with management, which also involves a remedial teacher.
Sport
We guide the children with professional trainers to a high level in the field of sports in order to realize a scholarship. We currently only offer baseball but we are working on providing other sports.
How do we do this?
The children are picked-up after school and transported to our premise. We provide them with a daily schedule.
Schedule
. 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM - School pick-up
. 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM - Lunch
. 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM - Homework support
. 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM - Sports
CBA offers children from less fortunate families, with an interest in sports, the opportunity to develop themselves with an emphasis on general knowledge and skills including computers, art, music, sports activities, additional languages, lessons about government, construction and technology lessons.
The results
18
Number of students
5
Number of
grants
8
Number of
volunteers
9
Active years of
the foundation
The founders
In August 2015, Mr. Arjen Van Der Meulen and Mr. Jair Quant started realizing their idea for “The Curaçao Baseball Academy”. A Baseball Academy specially founded for the less fortunate children of Curaçao.
Arjen van der Meulen
The reason for this is the reality that children lag behind in their development, especially in the areas of education, nutrition and upbringing, as a result of a shortage of financial resources within the home/family.
Jair Quant
Our motivation
Children in poverty are worse off in all sorts of areas. There is less money for development and recreation. Membership of an association, celebrating a birthday or participating in school excursions is also not self-evident. This increases the risk of social exclusion. Children living in poverty are more negative about their lives and future than their more affluent peers.
Life offers them too little stability and security. This makes it more difficult to have a good future perspective. However, parents also often suffer from stress, feel less and less psychologically well and become insecure about their role as parent and educator. A social safety net can ensure that parents can just make ends meet and it provides support with raising children.
Our volunteers
Elleny Geerman
Teacher homework support
Giselle Rosalia
Teacher homework support
Mishanoe Carmelita
Teacher homework support
Michelangelo "Ando" Cijntje
Sport trainer
Junaissa "Nani" Polonius
Teacher homework support
Fermin Coronel
Sport trainer
Curby Brunken
Teacher homework support
Leroy Antonia
Sport trainer
Jair Quant
Head operational manager
“Helping to turn dreams to reality in the near future”
The future of the foundation
The start of the foundation
The first kids
The foundation was launched in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for underprivileged children.
The first group consisted of 10 children. The young people were admitted based on an intake interview with the environment and school. We have now grown to 18 young people.
The first scholarships
Nair Jamanika is our first scholarship student. A “down to earth, humble and respectful” boy.
Nair had achieved his AGO level on Curacao, which is considered the lowest level possible on the VSBO here on Curacao. But he endured everything and worked hard with strength and soul and thereby became a most exemplary student at The Kings Academy in Seymour, Tennessee. In addition, during his study years he developed into one of the best baseball players at his school and was even selected for the All-District team. (comparable to the Region selection)
Our current partners in grants
At this moment , we work with the following institutions:
The Kings Academy (HS), Seymour, Tennessee
Genesee Community College(JuCo), Buffalo, New York
Johnson University (4 yr Co), Tennessee
Jackson State University (4 yr Co), Jacksonville, Alabama
Palm Beach State College (4yr Co), West Palm Beach, Florida
Our vision
Help 35 kids annually with study guidance and a good base to make sure they have a great future and provide the best chance for proper education!
How you can help
Together we can ensure that we give the youth a chance. Would you like to contribute? You can contribute in your own way via the following ways.
Become a sponsor!
Are you looking for a good cause to support using your company? As Foundation we would like to get in touch with you to see how we can start a collaboration. You can contact us via the form. We would like to hear from you.
Contact
We love to get in contact with you!
Jair Quant
Head of Operations
Stichting Jeugd Honkbal Plan Curaçao
Van Engelen Sportpark,
Kaya Richard J. Beaujon Z/N Curaçao
Tel: +5999 5110763
E-mail: cbacur5999@gmail.com / jair_quant@yahoo.com
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