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:: Fostering children :: Nganjuk, East Java. Mr Totok and his wife Mrs Anik
Here a family (related to Tatik Hatch-Barnwell) began by looking after about six or seven children who all lived in as part of the family. Now this number has increased to 12!!! This is our oldest project dating back over 18 years and many children have passed through this family having successfully graduated from High School.
All the children work on the small agricultural holding run by Anik and Totok. Rather than give the family an allowance for each child, they were given a small amount of capital some years ago to start a business which is now successful enough for them not to rely on the Trust anymore. They are a self-funding project which allows us to allocate funds elsewhere. This has been achieved thanks to the ingenuity of both Totok and Anik and the proof of their success in shown in the increased number of children they are helping.
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:: Schooling for destitute children :: Denpasar, Bali. Mrs Titik and Mr Yacob
After the Bali bombs of the 12th October 2002, many children and their families were left homeless, jobless and more or less destitute. Many lost their parents and now live with other members of the family. Both Mrs Titik and Mr Yacob are teachers at a government secondary school in Denpasar. They organise 10 children who would not otherwise be able to attend school due to the lack of finance or a tragedy in the family.
Like all the projects, with the exception of Totok and Anik in East Java, they send us a six monthly progress report on the children, and the children also write to the Trust letting us know what they are doing. Without these reports, no further funding would be forthcoming. This is an excellent way of policing each project.
It also shows us what is happening to each child. If, for example, a child is not attending school, then the project managers will visit the family to find out why.
We have in the past experienced misappropriation of funds, children dropping out, and these reports prevent it happening.
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:: Caring for street children :: Bandung, West Java. Mrs Menda and Dr Haryo
After Haryo finished his PhD in London he and his wife Menda asked if they could start a project to help some of the wild street children of Bandung. We agreed, having got to know them well during the four or five years they spent studying in London.
Ten children are cared for in foster homes. It is an expensive project as the Trust pay all their expenses from food and clothing to transport and school fees. It is an ever changing project because the children are wild and at least two or three run away every year. They are replaced by others. Menda and Haryo are helped by colleagues at the Institute of Technology in Bandung where Haryo is a lecturer.
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:: Pre-school and kindergarten and primary school ::
Serpong, West Java. Dr Weni and Mrs Lilis
This is our flagship project. Weni studied for a PhD in London and he and his wife Lilis were in here for about seven years. We became close friends and when they returned to Indonesia, began to run the pre-school / kindergarten in Serpong. As Directors of the project, and like all the principals of the Trust and the projects, they have done everything on our behalf on a voluntary basis. They organised the purchase of the land, oversaw the building of the first half of the school, organised the staff and student intake. They also battled with local bureaucracy which appeared to be blind to the necessity of a school of this kind in the area.
Weni and Lilis have done a remarkable job and the school now goes from strength to strength increasing its good reputation. As a result, we have been able to extend the buildings to incorporate a fully blown Primary School which now has Government approval. Dr Weni and Lilis have overseen this new development together with Julia Ahmad and Dr Tatacipta Dirgantara. In August this year there were 160 pupils
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:: Pre-school and kindergarten Banda Aceh, North Sumatra ::
In the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami which devastated the lives and countryside of Northern Sumatra, we opened a tiny emergency school to help a handful of children who had survived this tragedy. It also helped parents and teachers attempt to regain some kind of normality. In time, we were able to buy land and develop a kindergarten school which was opened officially in August this year (2007). In August there were just over 60 pupils attending the school on a regular basis.
By clicking on 'Latest News' and 'News Archive' on the 'About Us' page of our website, you will be able to see photographically the progress development of this and other projects. The staff including the headmistress Ibu Tia are all Acehnese and most have a tragic tale to tell of their experiences of the Tsunami. The project is now supervised by Westri, a Javanese girl who will stay for two years relying upon her Management Degree and experience to teach and maintain high standards administration and teaching.
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:: School for earthquake victims :: Pandang Panjang, West Sumatra. Mr and Mrs Didi
A new project was started in 2004 to pay for the education of 58 children, almost all of whom were orphaned by the underwater earthquake of February 2004 which generated a wave large enough to destroy over 200 homes around Gunung Rajo (Rajo Mountain) about 20 kilometers from Padang Panjang in West Sumatra.
This is run by Mr and Mrs Didi, who have now retired from working for Bank Indonesia in London. During their time in the UK they became friends with the Trustees.
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