We work hard on our vision and objectives. We are committed to working with a fantastic team.Everyone within our foundation works on a voluntary and non-profit basis to stimulate reading
Board members
These are the board members of Thang Foundation.
Marleen Fischer
Chairman
Ton Fischer
Treasurer
Amber Delahaye
Secretary
Linda Huntjens Bouchoms
Second secretary
Dutch team
These are the members of our Dutch team.
Jarmo Sijben
Translator English
CPE certificated C2 English
Eline Fischer
Administrator website
Nepali team
These are the members of the foundation who support us in Nepal.
Rajeev Dhar Joshi
Publisher & Nepali team member
Chhavi Basnet
Contact Bookbags-project Jhapa
Binaya Vaidya
Translator Nepali
Contact IBBY Nepal
Kushal Gurung
Nepali team member
Youth ambassadors
These are our youth ambassadors who read a new book every month and write something about it.
Lotte Meulenberg
Youth ambassador 2018-2020
Sanstuti Rajbhandari
Youth ambassador 2019-…
Isa Loven
Youth ambassador 2020-…
Illustrators
These are the illustrators who help the foundation on a creative level!
Yvon van Oel
Writer/illustrator & children’s bookstore owner
Students
These students helped Thang Foundation with becoming a little bit more visible.
Merel de Nijs
Social Media
Isa Grubben
Social Media
Nomi Smeets
Strategy
Evelyne van Ballegooijen
Strategy
Chloë Bakker
Strategy
Fleur Zuurwelle
Strategy
Xamara Schwarzenegger
Website
Lisanne Heslinga
Website
Mark Janssen
Ambassador
COLLABORATIONS
Rajeev Nepali Dhar Joshi – Publisher
We work together with a Nepalese bookshop Katalaya that publishes our books.
Dream book house – Bookshop
Kupondole, Sanepa Road, Patan, Nepal
We buy the books that we distribute (/donate) in Nepal at this bookshop.
Thang foundation participants
Purna Man Sherestha
Subarna Raj Ghimire
Laxmi Prasad Ngakhusi
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