Sr Leny on her rounds
Sr Leny Droogh, who is 90 years young, has a daily task she has carefully chosen.
When she walks to church every morning at 9 o’clock with her rollator, she picks up every plastic bottle and tin can that she can find, in the grass along the road or in the garbage bins.
On the way from the church coming back home to the Wereldhuis, she does the same. She also does this when she goes to the supermarket for shopping. Then she goes to the recycling spot in the market and she gets a refund based on the amount of cans and plastic bottles.
Last year the refunds all added up to more than 1.200 euros!
She divides this well-earned money among all kinds of good initiatives, like a local project for vulnerable people or a mission project in Africa and also for the education of our young sisters.
Her fellow residents in the Worldhouse are aware of this and they too give her bottles and cans to recycle, so she gets more and more.
Leny says:
I will do what I can, ‘till the day I die. This is good for the environment and I make myself useful. I go out every day, unless there is snow.
This is my present mission”.
By the way, this year Sr Leny celebrates her 65th jubilee of profession. She became a sister in 1961 and left for Rwanda in 1962. She came back to the Netherlands in 1996, after having worked in Rwanda for more than thirty years, with some time in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She continues to be a missionary in her own country, protecting the environment and giving generously to those in needs.
