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Board members

Pim de Lijster — Chairman / Project coordinator

Pim has been involved with Stichting SAM since 2000, when he and his wife Willemijn worked as doctors at the hospital in Nkhoma, Malawi, until early 2003. After a period in Australia with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, he started the Mozmed project in Moma, Mozambique, in 2009. Later the Mozmed project in Gurúè was added. Until mid-2014 he led a team of doctors, dentists, nurses and supporting volunteers. At the end of 2014 he moved to Portugal with his wife and family, where he works in the emergency department of a hospital. Since 2014 he has been a board member and the contact person for the ongoing projects in Mozambique. In 2020 he took over as chairman from Jan van der Spek.

Antoinette Schram-Verkamman — Treasurer

Antoinette Schram (1972) is an entrepreneur in inland shipping. Together with her husband Ton she adopted two boys from South Africa. She has known the work of Pim and Willemijn since 2003. She is involved in several projects in Southern Africa and is therefore glad to use her knowledge and network for Stichting SAM. Since September 2026 Antoinette has been a member of the board.

Elke Wilson-van Alphen — Public Relations

Elke was born in 1979 and is a midwife by profession. She is married to Pieter and has 3 children. She has been on the board of Stichting SAM since 2008. Her interest in Stichting SAM comes from her own medical background, from an interest in working in a developing country, and from her personal connection with Pim and Willemijn de Lijster. A few years ago she took the tropical medicine course at the Havenziekenhuis in Rotterdam. Pim and Willemijn know Elke through the Koningskerk in Rotterdam Feijenoord. All of this together is why she enjoys working for this wonderful project!

Gert Jan Milhous

Since September 2026 Gert Jan has been a board member of Stichting SAM.

Annual reports

Because Stichting SAM is registered as an ANBI (public benefit organisation), the foundation is legally required to provide the information below about the foundation.

Stichting SAM is registered with the Dutch Tax Administration under number 8093.53.544. The foundation's visiting address is Backershagen 17, Rotterdam. The composition of the board is shown above.

The board members are entitled to a volunteer allowance, but may choose not to accept it. The foundation's objectives and policy plan can be read on several pages of this website. The main points of the current policy plan are supporting medical projects in Africa, especially in Mozambique, and raising funds for them.

The foundation's financial year is the same as the calendar year. An overview of the annual activities and the most recent annual accounts is given below.

ACTIVITIES of Stichting SAM (Stichting Support African Mission) in 2024

In February 2024 the mobile medical project (Mozmed project in Tete) in Tete province officially started under the care of Missão Betesda em Moçambique (MB). The team of 2 midwives and a health worker who gives vaccinations has been expanded with a specialised medical technician (técnico médico) who sees patients and is authorised to prescribe medication where needed. SAM also supports this project financially.

The chairman made 2 supporting visits. The first visit took place in the spring of 2024. During that visit he and his wife supported the staff, helped to legalise the various aspects of the project, and, together with the chairman of MB, guided the restart of the project under MB. Contacts with the various ministries at local, provincial and national level in Mozambique were also maintained and strengthened.

Later in the year the chairman made a second visit to follow the progress of the project. The project is managed by MB and carried out in close cooperation with Stichting SAM.

The chairman is also one of the contact persons for the staff of the project in Tete.

Once a year the chairman visits Nampula, combined with his first visit to Tete. The purpose of this visit is to see the various projects in Nampula (the Mozmed project in Nampula, Deus Abençoe a África and Casa Nutri) and to hold talks with the people carrying them out.

Contact with other projects supported in Africa is maintained by the various board members.

Financial support for the various projects continued in 2024.

ACTIVITIES of Stichting SAM (Stichting Support African Mission) in 2023

In the spring of 2023 the chairman of SAM flew to Tete, Mozambique, for further talks. Together with the chairman of Missão Betesda em Moçambique (MB), the Mozambican NGO SAM works with in Mozambique, further talks were held with the Igreja Reformada em Moçambique (IRM) to reach a memorandum of understanding for bringing a primary care mobile medical project, which had operated under IRM for years, under MB.

Later that year another supporter bought a new car for the project, and it was delivered to the team in Tete..

The mobile medical project has operated under the IRM flag since the early nineties. To strengthen the project and introduce new possibilities, it will continue under MB from now on. To make this a smooth handover and to make it possible to add a nurse and/or doctor, talks were needed at several levels: district, provincial and national, with the relevant ministers and health care directors.

This year Stichting SAM again supported “Deus Abençoe à África” financially. Casa Nutrir received financial support for the expansion and restoration of its existing building, so there is more room to support and care for severely malnourished children. Money was made available to buy 4 bunk beds for a small guest house for up to 8 people, built with the help of another foundation. Patients from clinics visited by the MozMed team in Nampula, who fly back with the plane for treatment in the city, can recover in the guest house and stay there until they can return to their villages on a next clinic flight. The Ruth’s Shelter project in Kenya received a financial contribution to expand its cooking facilities for the children; several large stoves and pans were bought.

ACTIVITIES of Stichting SAM (Stichting Support African Mission) in 2022

This year Stichting SAM supported “Deus Abençoe à África” financially with a monthly contribution of € 600. This amount was raised from €500 to €600 per month because of the higher cost of medication for admitted children. This year it was also decided to support “Casa Nutrir” financially, a project in Nampula that guides and supports severely malnourished children and their mothers. This project recently bought a plot of land, and Stichting SAM has pledged €3000 towards the necessary renovation and construction. Despite the repairs to the Land Rover carried out last year in Johannesburg at SAM's expense, this clinic car again needed some repairs this year. Stichting SAM arranged the parts and the logistics for transporting them.

In June 2022 the chairman of SAM made a working visit to Malawi and Tete province, Mozambique, together with a delegation of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Cape, South Africa. They looked at the possibility of integrating a medical project in Tete, currently run by the local church, into “Missão Betesda em Moçambique”, to strengthen and further develop this medical project. During this trip he also worked as a doctor again during a 2-day fly-in clinic in Niassa province, organised by “Missão Betesda em Moçambique” in cooperation with “Mission Aviation Fellowship”.

Board members

Pim de Lijster — Chairman / Project coordinator

Pim has been involved with Stichting SAM since 2000, when he and his wife Willemijn worked as doctors at the hospital in Nkhoma, Malawi, until early 2003. After a period in Australia with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, he started the Mozmed project in Moma, Mozambique, in 2009. Later the Mozmed project in Gurúè was added. Until mid-2014 he led a team of doctors, dentists, nurses and supporting volunteers. At the end of 2014 he moved to Portugal with his wife and family, where he works in the emergency department of a hospital. Since 2014 he has been a board member and the contact person for the ongoing projects in Mozambique. In 2020 he took over as chairman from Jan van der Spek.

Antoinette Schram-Verkamman — Treasurer

Antoinette Schram (1972) is an entrepreneur in inland shipping. Together with her husband Ton she adopted two boys from South Africa. She has known the work of Pim and Willemijn since 2003. She is involved in several projects in Southern Africa and is therefore glad to use her knowledge and network for Stichting SAM. Since September 2026 Antoinette has been a member of the board.

Elke Wilson-van Alphen — Public Relations

Elke was born in 1979 and is a midwife by profession. She is married to Pieter and has 3 children. She has been on the board of Stichting SAM since 2008. Her interest in Stichting SAM comes from her own medical background, from an interest in working in a developing country, and from her personal connection with Pim and Willemijn de Lijster. A few years ago she took the tropical medicine course at the Havenziekenhuis in Rotterdam. Pim and Willemijn know Elke through the Koningskerk in Rotterdam Feijenoord. All of this together is why she enjoys working for this wonderful project!

Gert Jan Milhous

Since September 2026 Gert Jan has been a board member of Stichting SAM.

Annual reports

Because Stichting SAM is registered as an ANBI (public benefit organisation), the foundation is legally required to provide the information below about the foundation.

Stichting SAM is registered with the Dutch Tax Administration under number 8093.53.544. The foundation's visiting address is Backershagen 17, Rotterdam. The composition of the board is shown above.

The board members are entitled to a volunteer allowance, but may choose not to accept it. The foundation's objectives and policy plan can be read on several pages of this website. The main points of the current policy plan are supporting medical projects in Africa, especially in Mozambique, and raising funds for them.

The foundation's financial year is the same as the calendar year. An overview of the annual activities and the most recent annual accounts is given below.

ACTIVITIES of Stichting SAM (Stichting Support African Mission) in 2024

In February 2024 the mobile medical project (Mozmed project in Tete) in Tete province officially started under the care of Missão Betesda em Moçambique (MB). The team of 2 midwives and a health worker who gives vaccinations has been expanded with a specialised medical technician (técnico médico) who sees patients and is authorised to prescribe medication where needed. SAM also supports this project financially.

The chairman made 2 supporting visits. The first visit took place in the spring of 2024. During that visit he and his wife supported the staff, helped to legalise the various aspects of the project, and, together with the chairman of MB, guided the restart of the project under MB. Contacts with the various ministries at local, provincial and national level in Mozambique were also maintained and strengthened.

Later in the year the chairman made a second visit to follow the progress of the project. The project is managed by MB and carried out in close cooperation with Stichting SAM.

The chairman is also one of the contact persons for the staff of the project in Tete.

Once a year the chairman visits Nampula, combined with his first visit to Tete. The purpose of this visit is to see the various projects in Nampula (the Mozmed project in Nampula, Deus Abençoe a África and Casa Nutri) and to hold talks with the people carrying them out.

Contact with other projects supported in Africa is maintained by the various board members.

Financial support for the various projects continued in 2024.

ACTIVITIES of Stichting SAM (Stichting Support African Mission) in 2023

In the spring of 2023 the chairman of SAM flew to Tete, Mozambique, for further talks. Together with the chairman of Missão Betesda em Moçambique (MB), the Mozambican NGO SAM works with in Mozambique, further talks were held with the Igreja Reformada em Moçambique (IRM) to reach a memorandum of understanding for bringing a primary care mobile medical project, which had operated under IRM for years, under MB.

Later that year another supporter bought a new car for the project, and it was delivered to the team in Tete..

The mobile medical project has operated under the IRM flag since the early nineties. To strengthen the project and introduce new possibilities, it will continue under MB from now on. To make this a smooth handover and to make it possible to add a nurse and/or doctor, talks were needed at several levels: district, provincial and national, with the relevant ministers and health care directors.

This year Stichting SAM again supported “Deus Abençoe à África” financially. Casa Nutrir received financial support for the expansion and restoration of its existing building, so there is more room to support and care for severely malnourished children. Money was made available to buy 4 bunk beds for a small guest house for up to 8 people, built with the help of another foundation. Patients from clinics visited by the MozMed team in Nampula, who fly back with the plane for treatment in the city, can recover in the guest house and stay there until they can return to their villages on a next clinic flight. The Ruth’s Shelter project in Kenya received a financial contribution to expand its cooking facilities for the children; several large stoves and pans were bought.

ACTIVITIES of Stichting SAM (Stichting Support African Mission) in 2022

This year Stichting SAM supported “Deus Abençoe à África” financially with a monthly contribution of € 600. This amount was raised from €500 to €600 per month because of the higher cost of medication for admitted children. This year it was also decided to support “Casa Nutrir” financially, a project in Nampula that guides and supports severely malnourished children and their mothers. This project recently bought a plot of land, and Stichting SAM has pledged €3000 towards the necessary renovation and construction. Despite the repairs to the Land Rover carried out last year in Johannesburg at SAM's expense, this clinic car again needed some repairs this year. Stichting SAM arranged the parts and the logistics for transporting them.

In June 2022 the chairman of SAM made a working visit to Malawi and Tete province, Mozambique, together with a delegation of the Dutch Reformed Church of the Cape, South Africa. They looked at the possibility of integrating a medical project in Tete, currently run by the local church, into “Missão Betesda em Moçambique”, to strengthen and further develop this medical project. During this trip he also worked as a doctor again during a 2-day fly-in clinic in Niassa province, organised by “Missão Betesda em Moçambique” in cooperation with “Mission Aviation Fellowship”.