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Help Dr Bert van Walbeek survive the next 4 months
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A friend in need is a friend indeed, request for help.
Endorsed by Prof Dr Alexandros Paraskevas.
On January 21, 2020 bad luck hit our friend, colleague and lecturer, Dr Bert van Walbeek when he broke his hip and needed a 7-hour operation and a 4-week hospital stay to repair the damage. He is now recovering at home but due to his age related bone density, this process is taking a long time.
Sadly this is not only bringing him physical challenges, but now also a huge financial / cash-flow challenge.
Due to a complicated recovery process, it looks like he won’t be able to lecture for at least 3 more months and that means he is not able to generate (academic) income from January until May, as such “revenue“ of Thai Universities is based on hours lectured.
Bottom line: Gisi and Bert have thought long and hard, but see this “hip-event” as an omen and signal towards the realization that retirement is now inevitable.
However their present financial status is not sustaining this plan and they are now looking for some small support of those they supported a little bit during their +30 years in Thailand
As we all know, since 1985 Bert shared his hospitality, tourism & MICE knowledge with 1000’s of Thailand’s past, present and future leaders. For instance, he was training TICA members already by 1986, many of present MICE industry leaders were influenced by him.
As we also realize, over the last 20 years, he has lectured an estimated 2,000 (20 years x 100) students, who generally were very grateful with his hard/soft skill approach, many of you are in the meantime on the way to the top.
Helping industry stakeholders in good and in bad times, has always been very important to him and you might remember he invested a lot of efforts in crisis recovery activities, like The World, Our Guest.
Based on the saying “give and you shall receive much more than you ever thought possible”, we now would like to appeal to all his friends, colleagues and former students to help his wife and him to make it through the next few months.
If many of you could each help just a little bit, by raising small amounts of money from a large number of industry members, it would help him to plan his retirement during the next 3 – 4 months without additional stress.
To do so, please visit GoFundMe ……………. Link ……….
details to follow by Har van der Veen who will set this up online
Endorsed by Prof Dr Alexandros Paraskevas.
On January 21, 2020 bad luck hit our friend, colleague and lecturer, Dr Bert van Walbeek when he broke his hip and needed a 7-hour operation and a 4-week hospital stay to repair the damage. He is now recovering at home but due to his age related bone density, this process is taking a long time.
Sadly this is not only bringing him physical challenges, but now also a huge financial / cash-flow challenge.
Due to a complicated recovery process, it looks like he won’t be able to lecture for at least 3 more months and that means he is not able to generate (academic) income from January until May, as such “revenue“ of Thai Universities is based on hours lectured.
Bottom line: Gisi and Bert have thought long and hard, but see this “hip-event” as an omen and signal towards the realization that retirement is now inevitable.
However their present financial status is not sustaining this plan and they are now looking for some small support of those they supported a little bit during their +30 years in Thailand
As we all know, since 1985 Bert shared his hospitality, tourism & MICE knowledge with 1000’s of Thailand’s past, present and future leaders. For instance, he was training TICA members already by 1986, many of present MICE industry leaders were influenced by him.
As we also realize, over the last 20 years, he has lectured an estimated 2,000 (20 years x 100) students, who generally were very grateful with his hard/soft skill approach, many of you are in the meantime on the way to the top.
Helping industry stakeholders in good and in bad times, has always been very important to him and you might remember he invested a lot of efforts in crisis recovery activities, like The World, Our Guest.
Based on the saying “give and you shall receive much more than you ever thought possible”, we now would like to appeal to all his friends, colleagues and former students to help his wife and him to make it through the next few months.
If many of you could each help just a little bit, by raising small amounts of money from a large number of industry members, it would help him to plan his retirement during the next 3 – 4 months without additional stress.
To do so, please visit GoFundMe ……………. Link ……….
details to follow by Har van der Veen who will set this up online