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Open Het Dorp
Open Het Dorp ("Open The Village") was the first big fundraising TV show in the Netherlands. It aired on Dutch TV on 26 and 27 November 1962.
"Het Dorp" is a special village/community for disabled people. To raise the required funds to build and open the community a TV show was organized.
The program was at that moment the first nationwide fundraising TV-show, and it was done in the format of a telethon, lasting for 23 hours.
Mies Bouwman
Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman (31 December 1929 – 26 February 2018) was a Dutch television presenter.
Career.
Born in Amsterdam, she started her career on the very first broadcasting evening of the Dutch broadcasting association KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcaster) on 16 October 1951.
Bouwman made her name as the host of the first large fund-raising programme on Dutch TV," Open Het Dorp". In this show viewers were asked to donate money for charity, in order to open