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With the purchase of our book, ’Dreams of an Orphanage’, not only will you have a great Christmas gift this season, but you will also be bringing hope to those less fortunate. ’Dreams of an…
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October 2nd, Lööf Foundation arranged a gala dinner at the Jubilee Theater in Mariestad, close 
to Gullspång where Partex is situated. The purpose of the dinner was to raise more money for the rebuilding of…
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Today Lööf Foundation have been to visit and support Furagin school/family home approximately 1.5 hours outside of Moscow. There are 120 children with special needs living there. They are 7-19 years of age. Many of…
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Today we have been working very hard to get the invitation out for our charity event on Oct 2nd in Mariestad, Sweden. My daughter Stella, my father TorBjörn and my fiancée have putting many invitations…
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6:30 I wake up and I didn’t need an alarm clock today. I have slept little restlessly though because there was an aftershock late last night and since then there has been thunder, rain and…
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7:00 I wake up to the bell ringing and I slept very well last night. How nice it was to sleep in a bed. Normally, I find the beds here at the monastery are quite…
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5:30 I wake up from all the sounds around me, lively discussions, pot clatter, roosters, water buffalos and children screaming while the sun makes a beautiful entrance from the Himalayas, so stunning! 5:45 I make…
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5:10 I wake up while people start making breakfast and talking to each other. It’s all beginning to get light outside. I fall asleep again for some time. 5:45 I wake up again, I slept…
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5:20 I wake up from rattling pots, I fall asleep again but I wake up again from various other sounds. 6:00 I fix breakfast and today it’s Saturday so it will be aluxury breakfast! I…
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6:00 I wake from various sounds around me, there are goats bleating and water buffaloes grunting and a lot of pans clattering, and the children and adults are talking. I feel rested today! I get…
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6:00 awakened by the alarm clock. I slept well even though it rained heavily last night. I’ll probably start getting a little used to the life here. It’s a lot nicer now as dust was…
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5:50 I wake up before the bell rings. It has been rain and thunderstorms during the night so I do not feel completely rested. The tent was fortunately waterproof. I make breakfast, porridge with apple…
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6:00 I awake from the alarm clock and I am a little tired. First there was the traffic in the village during the night with aid shipments of rice from the government. Then there was…
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6:00 I am awakened by the alarm clock, the sun rises and I hear Nepalese music from a radio playing somewhere nearby. The water buffaloes grunt, the chickens are eating their corn breakfast beside me…
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5:50 I wake up and I have the usual breakfast that consists of freeze-dried rice pudding with strawberries. I drink my coffee and lime juice! 6:20 A talkative man comes by and he tells me…
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Overloaded truck! This picture was taken this morning when we filled the truck with all the materials we bought for the villagers of Ratankot here in Nepal! You can here see all material that we…
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Today’s purchases 70 fleece blankets were bought to the young children and 70 pieces of good quality tarpaulin to build tents out of for all the families with small children. Lots of medication was bought…
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5:50 I woke up but I didn’t sleep so well as it was very hot in my tent. The water buffalo who had moved in next to me has been very lonely and unhappy. I…
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6:00 I woke up as the sun comes out and everyone seems to be waking up. I am now starting to cook my breakfast, today there will be freeze-dried rice pudding with raspberries. 6:20 Shyam…
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Travel diary from Johan Magnusson, Loof Foundation Representative in order to help earthquake affected orphan children in Nepal Sat May 9 16:17 I’m leaving a sunny Mariestad by bus towards Skövde, my son Martin drove…
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Lööf Foundation has supported Elmhurst-Yorkfield Food pantry in the Chicago suburbs. In conjunction with Partex USA’s new office inauguration, me and our office manager Barbara Susmilch helped there and it was a life memory experience.…
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Lööf Foundation have been receiving SEK 89 433 to  the re-building of our family home “Home of Hope” ! Thanks to all generous contributions we have been receiving, we are now able to send a representative…
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Our family home "Home of Hope" which is situated approx. 90 kilometers from Kathmandu has been really damaged by the earthquake on Saturday 25th April. We have received information that all the children have survived…
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In connection with the inauguration of Partex Brazil, Lööf Foundation and Partex staff took the opportunity to support a social project in the suburbs of Fortaleza. The day care center we visited was founded in…
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Stella is Sophie’s daughter and 4th generation of the Lööf family. Sweden – South Africa 2015 Sunday, February 8 The flight to Dubai took us six hours and twentyfive minutes, all went well and there…
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Johan Magnusson’s travel diary with Lööf Foundation, trip to Nepal , in order to follow up on the building of the family home “Home of Hope”, 3rd visit January 2015. Saturday, 1/10 I have managed…
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One day in November came a nice letter to Lööf Foundation. It’s not often you get nice envelopes these days and when I opened the envelope, I was so happy – an invitation to dinner…
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We got the opportunity to meet the Tibetan monk Geshe Pema Dorjee Lama during his Swedish tour in Gullspång in order to discuss the family home building and Pema gave lectures for our employees. Our…
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At this time a week ago I was sitting in the bus with 30 unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents from Gullspångs municipality on the way to the Opera in Gothenburg. They were between 10-16 years…
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Travel diary from the trip to follow up the construction of the family home Lööf Foundation “Home of Hope” in the village Ratankot – Nepal, visit 2. Monday, September 15 Today I had planned to start…
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We have finally received the first drawings at our family home. It will be on two floors with a terrace on the upper floor and the roof terrace on the ground floor.   Children will…
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Wednesday 28 May was a special day for us as Governor Lars Bäckström visited us together with municipal and mayors. The governor said this about our efforts: “It is breathtaking, what efforts you are doing –…
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The day after we had come back to Ratankot we were up early to get ready for the grounbreaking ceremony for the Home of Hope. The monks had been up early and held ceremonies to…
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In late April, I and my partner Johan went to Nepal. We would be present during the ceremony for the start of the work for the construction of our family home in the village Ratankot,…
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Now it is not far from the trip to Nepal. Then we take the first sod for the Home of Hope Foundation orphan children. The plane takes off from Sweden Easter Monday. We are two…
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