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On May 16 and 17, 2025, GreenKidz was invited by the Bonaire Municipal Health Service (GGD) to pay a working visit to Bonaire. Following working visits to Aruba and Sint Eustatius, the Bonaire Municipal Health Service was keen to actively implement the GreenKidz mosquito prevention program on their own island.

On May 10, 2025, GreenKidz, together with the Curaçao Children’s Museum and the Antillean Youth Care Federation (FAJ), organized a unique children’s party for no fewer than 120 vulnerable children from boarding schools, foster families, and poorer neighborhoods.

On May 9, 2025, GreenKidz celebrated its tenth anniversary with over 100 sponsors, partners, and ambassadors at the Curaçao Children’s Museum. The foundation not only looked back on its achievements but also looked forward to its new partnership with the Curaçao Children’s Museum.

In April 2025, the unique GreenKidz mini-documentary “Giving Back, Moving Forward” was completed. This documentary, which looks back on 10 years of GreenKidz and looks ahead to the future, was funded by the Caribbean Cultural Fund, Rotary Club Curacao, and LionsDive Beach Resort.

In March 2025, GreenKidz participated, at the invitation of CITI (Curacao Institute of Technology and Innovation), in a multi-day conference in Lithuania on ‘Digitization of informal youth work’ as part of the Erasmus Plus program, in which CITI has been actively involved for some time.

In December 2022 GreenKidz coordinator Maya Mathias travelled to the Dutch Caribbean Island of Sint Eustatius and met with many local experts and professionals working in the areas of Primary and Secondary Education, Nature Protection, Environmental Awareness, Health Care and Mosquito Control.

On February 24, 2025 GreenKidz Creator ‘Maya Mathias’, at the invitation of Minister Silvania, attended a green dinner at Hofi Cas Cora. Together with other green organizations such as Carmabi, Uniek Curacao, Coral Branch Foundation and the Curacao Turtle Conservation Foundation, she enjoyed a delicious three course ‘farm to table’ menu.

On Friday morning, February 7, 2025, the GreenKidz board, along with several GreenKidz team members visited the Children’s Museum in preparation for the GreenKidz Jubilee activities that will take place May 9 and 10, 2025 at the Children’s Museum.

Recently, GreenKidz met with representatives of “GreenPhenix” and “Perpetual Plastics,” two recycling organizations from Curaçao and St. Maarten to see how parties could support each other in creating more awareness about litter and plastic.

GreenKidz recently spoke with Kooyman’s marketing delegation about organizing structural learning activities for vulnerable children in Curacao with complex home situations and/or mental and physical challenges.

On Saturday, January 12, 2025, GreenKidz organized a train-the-trainers activity for its new members at the Balance office in Scharloo. This training was provided by GreenKidz creator “Maya Mathias” and GreenKidz guest lecturer “Remyson Caldera” and very positively evaluated.

Next year, the GreenKidz Foundation will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The foundation will mark this milestone with a mini-documentary reflecting on the past and looking to the future, as well as an educational and carefree children’s party for vulnerable children.

On Tuesday, December 17, the GreenKidz team, together with Angele Steva from the Federation of Antillean Youth Care (FAJ), appeared on the morning show Moru Bon Dia on TeleCuraçao.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of the GreenKidz Foundation, work is underway on a GreenKidz mini-documentary, which will be launched on May 9, 2025, at the Curaçao Children’s Museum. The documentary reflects on the past decade while also looking to the future.

In early October 2024, GreenKidz enthusiastically took part in the 48 Hour Film Project, which was held on Curaçao for the eighth time. This global film competition saw 17 film teams participate on Curaçao, with the GreenKidz teen team being the youngest team in the competition.

In a series of interviews, Caribbean Network shines a spotlight on people in Curaçao who are fighting for a special cause. They strive to achieve something and refuse to be deterred by anything or anyone. What drives these individuals? Part 10: Maya Mathias of GreenKidz and her passionate commitment to making learning enjoyable.

GreenKidz participated in the 5th edition of SDG Action Week on Thursday evening, September 19, 2024. The event, organized by the Ministry of Economic Development (MEO), focused on the theme “Protecting Life & Environment.”

On September 8th, Maya Mathias, Remyson Caldera, and Lisa Koppes from the GreenKidz Foundation traveled to Aruba to introduce the GreenKidz mosquito prevention program, “Give Mosquitoes No Chance,” to the ABC Islands! Maya Mathias, GreenKidz creator and coordinator, looks back on a very successful business trip, which left her eager for more.

With the creative input of Roos van der Leden and Lisa Koppes, two new members of the GreenKidz team. The game will teach children in a playful and engaging way about the importance of plastic and recycling. GreenKidz plans to launch this game during their ten-year anniversary celebration in the spring of 2025.

Over the past year, GreenKidz has held multiple meetings with the director of the Curaçao Children’s Museum and collaborated successfully on their highly acclaimed fundraising event, ‘Day of Play’. Both parties are currently exploring ways to work together more sustainably in the future based on a win-win strategy.

In June 2024, GreenKidz successfully completed its tree project for five schools in Banda Bou. This project, focusing on the importance of indigenous trees in the fight against climate change, was generously funded by the Lions Club Curaçao. It was aimed at students from both mainstream and special education, allowing GreenKidz to develop a wide range of bilingual teaching materials, coloring pages, and picture boards.

Since the end of May, the coloring books from the GreenKidz Foundation have also been available at the Bruna bookstore in the Zuikertuintje Mall shopping center. The coloring books contain over 25 coloring pages and six beautiful full-color picture pages featuring familiar scenes and (nature) locations on Curaçao. These books teach children to love nature and take care of the environment.

Last week, the GreenKidz Foundation concluded its annual fundraising for Special Needs Schools .. Thanks to donations from companies and individuals, GreenKidz was able to gift one thousand Caribbean coloring books to special needs students in Curaçao.

On March 8th, 2024, GreenKidz took part in the Kliko Challenge award ceremony at Selikor, finalizing the hugely successful Kliko Challenge project. During this ceromony, attended by more than 100 guests, 3 secondary AGO/ VSBO schools were awarded public and jury prizes for the Kliko’s (garbage bins) they had painted under guidance of local artists.

In 2024, GreenKidz entered into a fruitful and sustainable collaboration with the Rotary Club Curacao (RCC). As part of this collaboration, RCC supports various GreenKidz lessons throughout the year by providing and organizing transportation. This is facilitated through the Rotary bus project, which transports students in a beautiful tourist bus to their GreenKidz activity.

On January 17, 2024, GreenKidz organized a vibrant Coral Heroes Event at Avila Beach Hotel, a sustainable sponsor of GreenKidz. The Coral Heroes program was conducted for 30 students from the Divi Divi LOM School, a special education school in the ‘Emmastad’ district, who thoroughly enjoyed this educational, creative, and interactive workshop.

On Wednesday, January 31, 2024, Avila Beach Hotel hosted its first a Coral Happy Hour. The sold-out and highly successful fundraising event focused on Coral Restoration and Coral Education, with the proceeds from the fundraising being split equally between the Branch Coral Foundation and the GreenKidz Foundation.