Going Strong for 50 years!

“Every child should get a chance to get to know her or his island better.”

Rotarian Huub Bongers once said. Huub noticed that many children never made trips to parts of the island outside their immediate living surroundings,---some children had never even seen the sea!

He therefore, with a number of other Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Curacao, started the Rotary Bus Project on December 18, 1974. The idea was to every two weeks bring children of the basic schools to a nice destination of their choice.

From 2021 onwards, the children are being picked up in a tour bus, a luxury air-conditioned tour bus because they often see tourists driving around in these buses but usually they never did. You should see the anticipation on their faces when such a bus comes to pick them up at their school!

The idea has always remained the same, namely to give the children an educational & fun experience combined with a snack and a drink! Children come to places on our beautiful island where they have never been before!

The Rotary Bus Project, that has now become a tradition has by now brought more than 28,500 children to all sorts of destinations!.

A big thank you goes to attractions such as the Children's Museum, the Hato Caves, Carmabi and the Ostrich Farm, which often have a social entrance fee, as well as to the bus companies such as FTBB (Taber), Blue Angel Tours, TM tours and also to the Rotary Bus Project Team - Aschia Daswani, Hans van Aalst, JanPieter Herwijer, Zaid Tjang A Tjoe, Heidi Getrouw, Gwido Jansen and all the fellows who sometimes accompany the tours but also donate weekly to make the tours possible!

Huub Bongers

200th Fun Ride!