When I checked in at the airport of Amsterdam last week, there was a nice young lady helping me behind the check-in counter; her bare arms without any tattoo looked beautiful. I glanced at the row of young

This will be a very unusual post, because it explains the reasons why I - as the founder and president of the board of trustees of a well known charity in Hungary - am willing to give up my creation and

Let me tell you my story. Actually, it is my daughter’s and mine. Ours. It started in April 2013. My daughter was born then. My husband was with me in the delivery room. Sitting there quietly, looking

Every year the Smiling Hospital Foundation in Hungary - www.mosolygokorhaz.hu/en/ - has about 100 interviews with new candidate volunteers, who would like to take the training and the subsequent test with

Children generally hate to go to hospitals. Parents most often have the difficult task to explain the children the necessity of going to hospital and in most cases and in most countries one of them would

Nearly every day we are in the children hospitals with some of our 300 volunteers and professional artists. Every day there are nice stories about soul-uplifting experiences in the hospitals. Let me start

My name is Albert Royaards, born in the Netherlands in 1943. My early formative years were in Holland. Lawyer by training (university of Utrecht, the Netherlands) and banker by profession (Chase Manhattan