Vol. 7 No. 2 | August 2014 Inauguration of Wadah Community Centers: Kampung Beting Remaja & Cibodas, Lembang Memoirs from our Six-Month Training in India We Can! Wadah Bridges India and Nepal 2 | August 2014 | Editorial FOUNDER Anie Djojohadikusumo 2 Message from the Founder BOARD OF ADVISERS Janti Notowidigdo 3 Dewi Djarot Tuti Mashuri 4 Dear Friends and Readers, Yekti Suradji We are once again so proud to bring you the CHAIRPERSON 6 latest edition of our Newsletter. Retnaning Tyas 10 We hope that this edition will again give you SECRETARY all, our friends, additional insights and clearer Paula Stella Nova Landowero picture on the progress of our activities. Our 13 tasks at hand are so enormous that we know TREASURER that it may take a lifetime and even forever to J. Cecilia Parengkuan 16 accomplish them all. But, we also know that Lilik Djohan with your continued support we will be able to achieve what we plan to do. We will not WADAH YOGYAKARTA be able to do it alone. Empowering women is 18 empowering communities! Educating a child CHAIRPERSON is synonymous to preparing him and her to Insiwijati Prasetyaningsih 20 tomorrow’s challenges. This is where we want you to help and join us. SECRETARY Noeryati 22 A few months from now we will again be holding our Wadah Global Gathering (WGG). This will be its second staging. This time, it will be held TREASURER 26 at the majestic region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia’s former seat of govern- Bambang Purnomo Hediono ment. Yogyakarta is considered as a special region where the conver- 30 gence and presence of the different religions that are acceptable in Indo- WADAH INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT nesia evidently co-exist. 35 SECRETARY-GENERAL Our next WGG’s theme is Education: Building Blocks of a Better Future. Alfredo P. Torno III 36 WGG is always special but WGG 2015 promises to be even extra special. If our past Gatherings caught you all wanting for more, next year will surely WADAH EUROPE put you in the verge of disbelief. Nathalie Bellosat We hope that all of you could join us at our next Wadah Global Gathering. WADAH INDIA We encourage you all to please SAVE the DATES, 18 to 20 March 2015. Our Babli Kalha WGG team is currently doing their best to prepare everything to welcome you in Yogyakarta. We also enjoin you all to please visit our WGG web- WADAH PHILIPPINES site at www.wggathering.com. Registration is already on-going and since Tina Ferreros seats are limited, we encourage you to book your seats soon. WADAH SINGAPORE Let us all be the sun that gives light to all those who are in the dark. Let us Lim Choo Hin also serve as the clean air that they breathe to keep them alive. May we also be the water that will quench their thirsting soul. May we all be God’s useful instruments to help our fellowmen. Publishing & Copyright Thank you all so much for your continued support to all our endeavors. WADAH Foundation To God be the Glory! Editor Alfredo P. Torno III Co-Editor Catrini Pratihari Kubontubuh Anie Djojohadikusumo Graphics & Layout Founder Alodie Faye Torno Printing WIDEComm Editorial | August 2014 | 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Message from the Founder From the Editor’s Desk 3 From the Editor’s Desk Inauguration of Wiwied Farma and Wadah 4 Community Activity Center Cibodas, Lembang In this year’s second issue, we share the journey, progress, plans and pro- WADAH Fair at UNPAR: Developing gram developments at Wadah Foundation. 6 Communities Towards Achieving MDGs 2015 The cover page provides a glimpse into the backstories. Each piece of the Memoirs From Our Six-Month puzzle, each pixel represents our works, our intentions and our objectives: 10 Training In India empowered women, children and communities. A beautiful puzzle that also situates the struggles and challenges everyone at Wadah faces. 13 WE CAN! Wadah Bridges India and Nepal Wadah Titian Harapan Foundation Inside, meet the eight grandmothers from Eastern Indonesia who spent six 16 Represented at the Asia Pacific Regional NGO long, arduous months in India to become Solar Mamas. What they accom- Conference on Human Trafficking plished for themselves and their remote villages defies the imagination. Their drive, dedication and motivation proved all unbelievers -- including, Solar “Grandmamas” Presented for some, members of their own families!--wrong: illiterate village women, 18 To The Indonesian Press they are capable of greatness! Inauguration Of Wadah Community 20 Activity Center Kampung Beting Remaja Read another inspiring account from India: Ms. Babli Kalha, who heads Wadah India, had her hands full shining a light on Maiti Nepal’s mission Living Extraordinary Lives of ending the trafficking of Nepalese women and children into India. At 22 the event, kindred souls trooped to Ms. Kalha’s country estate to hear CNN Bumi Wadah Foundation Philippines Hero 2010 Anuradha Koirala speak about Maiti Nepal’s struggles battling 26 Gratitude Report this modern-day scourge. 30 Yayasan Arsari Djojohadikusumo News Big smiles and signs of recovery in typhoon-stricken areas in Southern Philippines are chronicled in a Bumi Wadah Philippines update from Making A Difference 35 Lola Robin Lim. Wadah-assisted communities were blessed to see the Wadah Global Gathering 2015: inauguration of their community centers in the first half of 2014: Apotek 36 SAVE THE DATE Wiwied and PKM Wadah Cibodas in Lembang; PKM Wadah Kampung Beting Remaja in North Jakarta and the Yayasan Arsari Djojohadikusumo (YAD)-funded Klinik Bunga Arsari in Bantul, Yogyakarta. Photos from: Ms. Lora Gonder, a volunteer from the USA, writes about her month-long Afief Riyadi Vol. 7 No. 2 | August 2014 Alfredo Torno experiences at Wadah Foundation; Wadah stars at a Wadah Fair held at the Stephani Dania Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, an off-shoot of a speech made by Wadah Lora Gonder Patron Ibu Anie at the university last November 2013; while reports from Dewi Djarot Robin Lim Yayasan ARSARI Djojohadikusumo (YAD) sum up yet another hefty edition Retnaning Tyas Inauguration of Wadah Community Centers: of this newsletter. Catrini Kubontubuh Kampung Beting Remaja & Cibodas, Lembang Sam Siregar Memoirs from our Six-Month Robby Reppa Training in India We Can! Wadah Bridges Yuliani Tri Astuti India and Nepal Alfredo P. Torno III Editor Yayasan WADAH Titian Harapan (WADAH Foundation) Midplaza 2 Level 2 Jl. Jend. Sudirman Kav. 10-11 Jakarta 10220, Indonesia Phone : +62 21 570 7789 Fax : +62 21 570 7630 Email : [email protected] Website : www.wadahfoundation.or.id 4 | August 2014 | Feature INAUGURATION OF WIWIED FARMA and Wadah Community Activity Center CIBODAS, LEMBANG On February 25, 2014, Ibu Anie Hashim Djojohadikusomo, founder and patron of Wadah Foundation, inaugurated Apotek Wiwied Farma, an expansion of Ibu Wiwied’s midwifery clinic in Cibodas Village, Lembang, West Java. At the same occasion, Ibu Anie launched the Cibodas Wadah Community Center or Pusat Kegiatan Masyarakat (PKM) WADAH Cibodas, providing maternal health services, general medical and welfare needs of Cibodas and surrounding villages. The Wadah Foundation has been actively supporting Wiwied and her midwifery practice for some years now, so the evolution from partner to PKM Wadah-Cibodas, a fully-assisted community, was a natural progression. Joining Ibu Wiwied in the operations is her husband, Pak Edy Bowoh, formerly with SOS (Kinderdorf) Desa Taruna In- donesia. In addition to running the clinic and the drugstore, the couple oversees the programs of the center, which offers instruction for children of pre-school age (PAUD), class tutorials and performing arts classes for those of primary school age. Feature | August 2014 | 5 The inauguration ceremony, attended by community leaders, village officials and the many residents who benefit from the various services of PKM WADAH Cibodas, was enlivened by festive renditions of rampak gendang (per- cussion music) and jaipong (folk dance) performed Ibu Wiwied delivering her welcome speech joyously by the neighborhood children. The Cibodas Wadah Community Center is the first to bear the brand Pusat Kegiatan Masyarakat (PKM) WADAH. This year, Wadah Foundation intends to increase and intensify its community development programs--a first step is having a unified identity for all assisted communities, PKM WADAH (Pusat Kegiatan Masyarakat WADAH or Wadah Community Center). - with reporting from Zul Herman Ibu Anie, Ibu Wiwied, Ibu Yekti and Ibu Etty releasing the balloons Below: Ibu Tuti Mashuri, Ibu Yekti Suradji, Ibu Anie Hashim, Mak Ulet, Ibu Wiwied and Ibu Tyas 6 | August 2014 | News WADAH FAIR at UNPAR: Developing Communities Towards Achieving MDGs 2015 Photos below: 1. Visitors watching the presentations and visiting the booths 2. L-R: Prof. R.T. Wahyudi, Ibu Tyas, Mrs. Atila Kamila, Ibu Anie and Ibu Sukawarsini Djelantik 3. Students signing up as volunteers 4. L-R: Ali Muhammad, Hasan Azhary, Ibu Anie, Dr. Sylvia Yazid News | August 2014 | 7 On the heels of a very successful national workshop held at Universitas Katolik Parahyangan (UNPAR) or Parahyangan Catholic University last November 30, 2013, where Wadah WADAH FAIR at UNPAR: Patron Ibu Anie Djojohadikusumo was a much-applauded main guest speaker, Ibu Anie was invited back to UNPAR, this time with the Wadah Foundation as the focus of a full- day school fair. Developing Communities Towards At the urging of various UNPAR faculty members and mas- teral students, Wadah Fair was held on 25 February 2014, at the UNPAR Post-Graduate Campus at Jl. Merdeka No. 30, Achieving MDGs 2015 Bandung, West Java. Welcoming Ibu Anie at the event was Ms. Atalia Kamil, wife of newly-elected Mayor of Bandung, Ridwan Kamil. She expressed her enthusiasm for current developments in Bandung affecting women and expressed full support of WADAH’s cause. Highlight of the morning was the signing of the Memo- randum of Understanding (MoU) between UNPAR and WADAH, which centered on education and community development.