Sergio Valkenburg and The Mobile Factory help make Haiti beautiful again
"We're cleaning up the city together with disaster victims" After the 2010 earthquake, Sergio Valkenburg flew to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, realizing the poor in the devastated country didn't just need hands to pray for them, but more importantly, hands to help them build...
Crew Members: Joint entrepreneurship – sharing success together
The Mobile Factory counts 162 Crew Members! These are all motivated enthusiasts who are using their networks and/or talents to help make our campaign successful. We hope to be able to further expand the number of Crew Members with your help. After all, many hands make...
Amazing enthusiasm at Campus Event 4th of June
The 4th of June The Mobile Factory organized a campus event to thank it's Crew Members, show it's progress and model houses. We were very touched by all the support and enthusiasm. A big thanks for everyone that came to visit us! Are you also interessted in taking a...
Local representative Haiti meets Muhammed Yunus
Our local representative Haiti, Sergio Valkenburg, meets Muhammed Yunus. Muhammed Yunus is a social entrepreneur, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the concepts of microcredit. Microcredit is a loan that is given to entrepreneurs that are too poor...
The Mobile Factory official partner of CCI Haiti-Benelux
We are very pleased to annouce that The Mobile Factory is an oficial partner of the CCI Haiti-Benelux. The Haiti-Benelux chamber of commerce and industrie is a nonprofit entity with a mission to promote commercial collaborations between the Haiti and Dutch caribbean,...
Invite your friends to like our facebook page
Spread the word by inviting your friends to like our facebook page. It's free and easy with this little facebook manual. Step 1 Search for our Facebook page “ Mobiele Fabriek - The Mobile Factory” Step 2 Click on the three dots on the right side of the page...
Work mission UNDP-MTPTC to The Mobile Factory
The UNDP-MTPTC will visit us in the Netherlands in the last week of May for a work mission. In cooperation with the CCI HAITI BENELUX, we will host this workmission related to the recycling of debris for UNDP and MTPTC. The head of the waste management of the UNDP and...
Speedkits General Assembly
On April 14th 2015 the General Assembly meeting of S(P)EEDKITS took place in Amsterdam. The Mobile Factory was the lucky one to organize the meeting with the help of our partner Momentum Group. The S(P)EEDKITS partners in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands,...
Disaster Capitalism
HBO investigates the Haitian money pit HBO aired a "VICE on HBO" investigation to find what happened with the 10 billion dollar in aid pledged after the earthquake that occured in 2010 in Haiti. This documentary questions the management of the billions that were given...
S(p)eedkits
S(p)eedkits: Integrating emergency relief and reconstruction Wherever in the world disaster strikes, emergency relief and reconstruction take place as two separate processes. Experience has taught that it often takes far too long before the one phase moves into the...
AidEx 2014
About AidEx AidEx is the annual event for buyers and suppliers of humanitarian and development aid. AidEx facilitates NGOs and industry to shape the future of aid and development with joined forces. This year the event took place for the second time in Brussels on the...
Sergio Valkenburg represents The Mobile Factory in Haiti
Originally Sergio Valkenburg was named Sjoerd by his parents. However, they could not then apprehend that Sjoerd would become a citizen of the world, who wished to work for the underprivileged in developing countries. In these parts the name Sjoerd however, was so...
Hurricane Sandy terrorizes vunerable Haiti
Impact Hurricane Sandy Flooding All the rivers in southern Haiti have burst their banks resulting in damage to farms, homes and infrastructure. Facts and figures 29 confirmed deaths; 08 wounded; and 04 missing 18,796 people evacuated to 136 emergency shelters 5,981...