[UgaBYTES] Ben Waumans the founder of GDCO passed away in Eindhoven - Netherlands

[Cleopa Timon Otieno]

Dear Ahmed and the GDCO team in Sudan,

God gives and takes, may the family of the late Ben Waumans and all of us
that his life affected receive consolation at this trying moment, may you
have the strength to carry on his vision at GDCO.

Cleopa.

2009/11/16 Sarah mpagi <sarah at ugabytes.org>

> Dear Ahmed,
>
> We pray that Allah provides you with the strength to carry on the spirit of
> Ben Waumans. And May the Almighty God rest his soul in eternal peace. My
> condolences to the bereaved family of My Ben Waumans and to all the people
> his life touched deeply, that they should get the strength to carry on.
>
> Sarah
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:11 AM, FELICIAN NCHEYE <ncheyefb at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Ahmed,
> >
> > We register our condolences.
> >
> > May the Almighty God provide all of you with strength.
> >
> > Ncheye
> >
> > Manager
> > Sengerema Multipurpose Community Telecentre
> > P.O.BOX.399 Sengerema-Mwanza Tanzania
> > E-mail:ncheyefb at yahoo.com <E-mail%3Ancheyefb at yahoo.com> <
> E-mail%3Ancheyefb at yahoo.com <E-mail%253Ancheyefb at yahoo.com>>
> > Cell:+255 784 799630
> > Tel: +255 28 2590146
> > Web: www.Sengerema.or.tz
> >
> > --- On Fri, 11/13/09, ahmed digital <ahmed22digital at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: ahmed digital <ahmed22digital at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [UgaBYTES] Ben Waumans the founder of GDCO passed away in
> > Eindhoven - Netherlands
> > To: "ugabytes" <ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org>
> > Cc: "Wanda Myoshin Sluyter" <myoshin at dse.nl>, "Agnes Ovington" <
> > a.ovington at chello.nl>
> > Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 5:41 AM
> >
> >
> > *Dear friends*
> >
> > * *
> >
> > * It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that Mr. Ben
> > Waumans   the
> > great man of Eindhoven and the founder of GDCO   was passed away last
> > Wednesday 11th November  (67 years)… I call him last week inquiring about
> > his health but the phone was answered by his son … on behave of GDCO and
> > its
> > partners  specially Gedaref university,,, and on behave of Gedaref state
> > community and on behave of all the disabled  I would like to show our
> deep
> > condolences to his family and to his colleagues in the Digital City of
> > Eindhoven also to the great people of Eindhoven .. Specially Dr. Agnes
>  and
> > Gedaref volunteers in Eindhoven … my condolences to Gedaref state
> community
> > who benefit from the partnership between GDCO and DSE ,,, also to the
> > disabled all over Sudan who learn how to communicate with their families
> > through the internet our condolences to the Telecentre movement  for
> > missing
> > a great hero who help Sudan to join this movement .        *
> >
> > *Ben Waumans was born in 1942 in Koewacht, Netherlands where he grew up.
> He
> > attended university in Eindhoven. After university Ben joined Philips
> > Electronics in various functions: researcher, development engineer, plant
> > manager and board member at Philips research. After his retirement Ben
> > worked as independent advisor for organizations as Eindhoven University
> and
> > Medea. Besides his advisor activities Ben worked in various projects:
> > chairman of Digital City Eindhoven, Chairman of Terre de Hommes Helmond,
> > memberof the advisory board of the ANWB and chairman of the Belgian Dutch
> > Federation. Ben passed away in 2009 at the age of 67.*
> >
> >
> > --
> > AHMED M. M. EISA
> > MOBILE   00249912331155
> > KHARTOUM alamaraat P.O.BOX 15021        post code 12217
> >
> > http://www.gedaref.com/
> > http://sudantelecentreacademy.org
> > http://www.dse.nl/~gedaref/archief.htm<http://www.dse.nl/%7Egedaref/archief.htm>
> <http://www.dse.nl/%7Egedaref/archief.htm>
> > http://knowledgenets.net/gedaref/
> >
> > GDCO is a big Telecentre, it is NGO and non profitable organization,,,
> GDCO
> > is the founder of the first national Telecentre academy in Africa and the
> > middle east and 13th in  the world (Sudan national Telecentre academy
> > SuNTA). GDCO is the winner of information for development award i4d
> e-India
> > 2007,,, also the winner of i4d 2008 awards for the best innovations at
> the
> > grassroots Telecentre,,,, It is the winner of i4d 2009 awards for civil
> > societies initiatives for development,,,, GDCO has 4 internet websites in
> > Arabic,,, Dutch, English and the fourth is in UN-ESCWA,,, also it Has
> more
> > than 150 links and blogs and 500 pictures,,, GDCO has strong partnership
> > with Digital City of Eindhoven,,,  DSE donated 750 computers and
> > established
> > 10 development e-projects.
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