On 21/12/2025 | 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Online year-end campaign for Doctors Without Borders (MSF Belgium)
This event has ended and the donation page is closed. Many thanks to everyone who attended and to everyone who made a donation to Médecins Sans Frontières.
Below you can read more about the reason behind this end-of-year campaign on 21 December 2025.
Why now?
Around the turn of the year, it is the custom to give and share, to offer presents to those you hold dear.
Moreover, this is also the period of the winter solstice: the shortest day of the year and the longest night. From then on, the light returns and the days get longer again.
A solstice or equinox, they are good times to choose and affirm new resolutions.
In the yoga tradition, we perform 108 sun salutations to empower those intentions and direct positive energy in the right direction.
Moreover … this is also the period when my birthday falls.
108 Sun Salutations for a Good Cause
So I thought: I’ll do something special this year.
I’m going to do 108 sun salutations on the threshold of my 64st birthday from my yoga studio on Sunday December 21st! I’m doing it in the form of an online event that can be followed live on Zoom so that anyone who wants to can join in for a number of sun salutations (or all of them?).
And I will allow anyone who wants to, make a donation to the chosen charity. You can make a donation via the buttons at the bottom of this page.
To whom do the proceeds go?
This year, I have chosen the organisation “Doctors Without Borders”. For many years, this NGO has been committed to providing emergency and basic medical care in the most remote and dangerous conflict and disaster areas of our world. Places where people have to survive in often critical situations due to war and armed violence or natural disasters, and where even the most basic medical infrastructure has been destroyed or is lacking. This year, I was particularly impressed by the work of Médecins Sans Frontières in Gaza. But they also work in other conflict zones such as Yemen, Congo, Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, and also Benin, Bangladesh and Burundi to name just a few. They also assist homeless refugees in the streets of Brussels.
Will you join me?
That would be a great (birthday) present for me!
Even if it is an illusion to think that wars or armed conflicts will ever disappear completely, let us commit ourselves to limiting and alleviating the suffering of innocent people as much as possible and to increasing their chances of survival.
Thank you very much!
Read more about Doctors Without Borders
The button below will take you to the official website of Doctors Without Borders.