August 2017 | Vol. 5 Shine the LIGHT NEW SCHEDULE WOMEN: Torchbearers and Pillars of Hope Towards Achieving the Global Goals (SDGs) 21-23 March 2018 LeMeridien Jakarta, Indonesia REGISTER NOW at www.wggathering.com August 2017 | Wadah Chronicles | 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Announcement: WGG Message from the Wadah President 3 Message from the Wadah President 4 From the Editor’s Desk Dear Friends and Readers, 5 A Volunteer’s Perspective: armest greetings from Wadah Achieving Universal Pre-Primary Foundation! Life is truly amazing! Education, One Child at a Time Apparently, we’re already on the Wsecond half of the year! Is it just me or does 8 A VISIT TO WADAH MALAYSIA: everyone also feel that it seems like it was just Destiny Home School in Klang, a month ago when we started the year and Selangor celebrated our 9th anniversary. Now, we are MAITI NEPAL: Mighty at 25 already on the third quarter of 2017. Although we 10 know that we have accomplished lots of things 13 VOLUNTEERS: INC Members, over the past few months, we are also aware that Giving from their Hearts we still have lots of work to do! 16 INTERNATIONAL: WADAH Vision & We trust that everything has its own time, that is, in God’s own perfect time. Mission for Mother & Child Survival, We nevertheless believe that we also have to do and perform our share of the Internationally Recognized bargain. We have to do it as effective and as efficient as possible to ensure that our services create the impact needed in the community that we serve. 18 RAKERNAS: A Review and Analysis of Services to Wadah Communities Henceforth, we continuously strive to improve our services to the people and communities that we empower because they are very delicate to handle, as HEALTH: Communication, they are human beings with feelings. Because of their fragility, we have to be 21 Coordination, Information and Action! sensitive and considerate. We always try to focus on the process of each and every activity that we do as we are talking about people, and not objects. 24 EDUCATION: Franki Changed My Life To achieve this, we have started improving on four major aspects in delivering our services, i.e., Communication, Coordination, Interaction and Action. 28 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: In Bahasa Indonesia, we call them as Komunikasi, Koordinasi, Interaksi dan Weaving and Sewing the Future Kerjakan (K2IK) which we have started implementing in all levels of the organization. 30 YAD: SDS 01 Sungai Talang Gets a New Library We continue to knock on your hearts dear friends to help and join us in our journey. There are so many people who still need our help and we need to act Make A Difference 32 fast before we lose them from desperation. May you all endure with us in bringing hope to the less fortunate. May the guidance and blessings of the Almighty be upon us all, today and forever. Shining the light on satellite community of Darasy in Ambon Anie Djojohadikusumo President Photos courtesy of: Alfredo Torno III Nyoman Arya Subamia Alodie Faye Torno Raof Shan Freepik.com Robby Reppa Karina De Vega Robin Lim Kiswanti Yohanes Ghewa Zul Herman 4 | Wadah Chronicles | AprilAugust 2017 2017 From the Editor’s Desk EDITORIAL iving is a very powerful and meaningful word which should Publishing & Copyright WADAH Foundation Editor Alfredo P. Torno III always come handy to everyone. “It is better to give than to Graphic Design & Layout Alodie Faye Torno receive,” is an old saying which is still very applicable up to the Contributors WIC Members present time. As former US President Bill Clinton wrote in his Wadah Philippines Wadah Communities Gbook, “Giving: How each of us can change the world” tells us how a simple way of giving one’s time, energy, thoughts, money or anything that we can voluntarily share with everyone in need could be meaningful and life- WADAH FOUNDATION changing. Patron Hashim Djojohadikusumo Advisory Board Dewi Djarot Tuti Mashuri Wadah Foundation’s mantra, Caring in Sharing and Giving strongly depicts Justi Josopandojo how everyone could show his care through sharing and giving. In this President Anie Djojohadikusumo Executive Director Retnaning Tyas edition, some of our volunteers have put their words into action. One of Secretary Paula Stella Landowero them is Trang Chu Minh, a Vietnamese national who works at Thomson Treasurer Lilik Juniarti Reuters Foundation and resides in London, UK. She came to Jakarta to learn more about the works of Wadah. From her very short visit, she was able to understand and feel how Wadah works and contributed an article WADAH INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE (WIC) in this edition. Chairperson Neeru Singh Co-Chairperson Alfredo Torno III For the second time around, members of the Church of Christ or Iglesia ni Secretary Lim Choo Hin Nathalie Bellosat Cristo (INC) in Jakarta have once again given their time, energy and money Treasurer Ian Rose to a very useful cause and conducted an outreach activity to the children Joan Fulton of PKMW Kampung Beting Remaja. From their very busy work schedule, Members Babli Kalha Linda Linsmayer they have set a date to give their time to the said Wadah community. Margaret Connor Mary Beth Lopresti Raof Shan News from our Wadah overseas operations, Wadah Philippines continue Timothy Stanton to receive recognition from the government of the Philippines and other Tina Ferreros organizations for their successful contributions to the society. Last June 23 to 26, Wadah Ph representatives Tina Ferreros, Teresa Maniego and Like/Follow us on: CNN Hero Robin Lim were asked to present their experiences at the International Confederation of Midwives in Canada. Wadah ph is one of the very few organizations who were asked to present at the Symposium. facebook.com/Wadah.Foundation Portions of their presentations are shared in this edition. @wadahfoundation Also in this edition, readers will be also apprised about Wadah activities @wadahfoundation based on the three main sectors Wadah focuses on. Sector heads of Education, Health and Community Development gave us an account of youtube.com/wadahfoundation their activities. Donate through PayPal: Wadah International Committee member Babli Kalha shared with us her story about Wadah’s partner Maiti Nepal during their 25th founding www.paypal.me/wadahfoundation anniversary. Yayasan ARSARI Djojohadikusumo shares with us the dedication and inauguration of the Sungai Talang Library built for Sekolah Dasar Solok 01 (SDSO1) at Solok Selatan in West Sumatra. We hope that you will also be enthralled with each and every story shared in this edition. Enjoy your reading everyone! Yayasan WADAH Titian Harapan (WADAH Foundation) Jl. Penjernihan II/7, Bendungan Hilir Jakarta 10210, Indonesia Phone : +62 21 5799 2162 Alfredo Torno III Email : [email protected] Website : www.wadahfoundation.or.id August 2017 | Wadah Chronicles | 5 A Volunteer’s Perspective: Achieving Universal Pre-Primary Education, One Child at a Time By Trang Chu Minh he ability to go to school is often taken for granted, but not for children in some of Jakarta’s worst neighbourhoods, many of whom would have been Tstripped of this fundamental right, if not for the support of organisations such as Wadah Foundation. I was blessed with the opportunity to visit Pusat Kegiatan Masyarakat (PKM) Wadah Al Hidayah, the oldest and earliest community supported by Wadah Foundation. There, I was able to speak with Teacher Hasan Azhary, the man behind the miraculous transformation of a place previously dubbed as one of Jakarta’s worst slums. The marginalised community, located in the slums of Waduk Pluit in North Jakarta, has been supported by Mrs Anie Djojohadikusumo since 1996, long before they officially established their family Foundation formerly known as the Yayasan Keluarga Hashim Djojohadikusumo (YKHD), now Yayasan ARSARI Djojohadikusumo (YAD). In 2008, Wadah Foundation introduced its education and healthcare programmes offering pre-school and tutorial activities for children as well as Qur’an reading classes, art performances and religious programmes for parents. In 2011 primary school enrolment rates reached 99% in Indonesia, which translates into 27 million children attending elementary school. The nationwide figure doesn’t, however, reflect the discrepancy between affluent, urban areas and poor, rural regions where enrolment rates continue to lag behind at below 60%. Statistics also don’t tell you the story behind these figures, the struggles and successes, the setbacks and triumphs of these children. They don’t explain that in order to get accepted into grade one, you need to pass a basic numerical, reading and writing test, which makes participation in pre-school programmes quintessential. 6 | Wadah Chronicles | August 2017 “ Three core values – “be grateful, be patient, be committed” - were what kept him going, and are the principles that continue to underpin his teaching. Pre-school children at PKM Wadah Al-Hidayah ” High birth rates, coupled with a shortage in school Azhary. “I saw an old man surrounded by children who were infrastructure and qualified teachers, pose a significant threat completely taken by the simple magic tricks he was teaching to the Indonesian education system, which is classified as the them – it was then that I understood that in order to drive third biggest in Asia and the fourth largest in the world. Civil home the importance of education, I needed to capture the society organisations such as Wadah Foundation play a critical attention of the children and get parental buy-in first.” role in addressing these challenges. Three core values – “be grateful, be patient, be committed” It’s no exaggeration that Teacher Azhary was the “first - were what kept him going, and are the principles that adopted child of Ibu Anie”, a term of endearment often used continue to underpin his teaching. to describe Anie Harjati Djojohadikusumo, the Founder of Wadah Foundation.