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 Yayasan Balita Sehat: Foundation for Mother & Child Health
January 2012 Newsletter
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Happy New Year to all you YBS supporters! We hope you had an enjoyable festive season and 2012 has welcomed you generously with open arms. Thank you for supporting our work throughout 2011, and we hope that you continue doing so in this New Year J The school semester began for our Early Learning Centre (ELC) students on January 6th, and due to the efforts of volunteer Sara Kline and the Jakarta International School, our feeding program is now underway! Our last Family Guide report gave you an overview of our activities in November. This report will pick up from where it left off so you can see what we were up to in December.
Before the Christmas recess, Starbucks sponsored our Early Learning Centre students’ trip to Kota tua (the old city known as Old Batavia or Old Jakarta). Kota tua was formerly the centre of commerce for Indonesia. Here, there are a number of significant establishments such as the former Town Hall of Batavia (now the Jakarta History Museum), the Wayang (shadow puppet) Museum and the former Court of Justice of Batavia (now the Fine Art and Ceramic Museum). The students explored the Mandiri Bank museum, Indonesia Bank Museum, Jakarta History Museum and Wayang Museum as part of their Kota tua tour. It was a great and educational way to end the school semester!
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| ELC children learning about the history of the
Indonesia Bank Museum. |
The children and their parents pose at the
Mandiri Bank Museum.
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On December 2nd, YBS also performed deworming and free health examinations for the residents of Lapak. Lapak is a low-income community that is the target of many YBS programs. For instance, many of our ELC students came from Lapak, which is home to predominantly scavengers. 73 residents took advantage of our health examinations and 58 children benefited from the deworming initiative.
Jakarta International School (JIS) has been incredibly generous and now sponsors our feeding program. Through their ‘Read to Feed’ fundraiser held throughout October and November 2011, JIS raised US$6,136.45. Wow! JIS has also been supportive in allowing our Small Skills Enterprise sewing and handicrafts group to sell their products at their school. Thank you volunteer Sara Kline for helping to establish this relationship between YBS and JIS. It was with great sadness that we farewelled Sara as she departed to begin her PeaceCorps assignment in Thailand. YBS wishes her all the best!
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YBS receives the cheque for the feeding program, a whooping US$6,136.45!
From left to right- volunteer Sara Kline, YBS doctor Ibu Elsa Intan, Health Education team members Kristina Sabatini, Nur Akmalia and Aris Goenawan, and JIS teacher Celine Kline and JIS students. |
And now, thank you, Family Guide reader, for reading our latest YBS newsletter. Our sincere appreciation goes to The Family Guide of Jakarta, British Women’s Association, Starbucksfor inviting the children for a discovery tour of Kota Tua and volunteers Ibu Ririn, Ibu Clara, and all our supporters, you know who you are. We look forward to sharing another exciting year with you.
Requests for assistance:
YBS is beginning the next bout of feeding program, which is targeted at malnourished children under the age of 5. The project will run in two areas over the span of one year. The programme will include: community health training (to be administered by YBS staff and volunteers); and nutritional support and skills training in targeted communities. There is a volunteering position open to individuals who have a background in Nutrition. Please get in touch with YBS if you are interested in this position.
If you have spare material (cloth), please kindly donate them to our micro-credit sewing skills group.
If you would like to donate your time to teaching the YBS staff English for an hour a week, please contact YBS. No qualifications are required, just the willingness to share your English skills.
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Our bundle of interventions - feeding programme; health, hygiene, nutrition education; pre-school education and scholarships; skills training; micro-credit; training of trainers - used in all our projects, but tailored to each community's specific wants and needs, is well known to help communities to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. If we can educate people about the importance of good nutrition and assist them in obtaining it, malnutrition will be a thing of the past. Sadly it is still a widespread problem: 33 % of children under five, (according to the Jakarta Globe, Jan 10, 2010) throughout Indonesia. With your support we could help many more people to reach their potential.
In Jakarta we welcome volunteers - particularly those with a healthcare background, or those with creative skills or an enthusiasm for teaching English - please contact rpj.fmch@gmail.com or drop into our new premises at Jl Haji Naim II No. 10, Kebayoran Baru, Cipete Utara (on the western/ northbound side of Jl Antasari).
A regular monthly donation would allow us to continue and extend our work.
Visit www.motherandchildhealth.org, or arrange a standing order into our bank account.
In Indonesia, Standard Chartered, Sudirman
Name of Account: Yayasan Balita Sehat
Number of Rupiah Account: 306-00179246
Number of US$ Account: 306-00179289
In the UK HSBC Bank
Sort code: 40 37 25
Account number: 73859282
Account name: The Foundation for Mother and Child Health
(please email us - rpj.fmch@gmail.com so that we can arrange to gift-aid it).
Another UK tax-efficient means of supporting our work is through payroll giving - contact us to make arrangements, as we need to give our details to your firm.
The Wish List:
We asked Asih to put together a ‘wish list’ so that if anyone was thinking of making donations to Balita Sehat they would know what we need:
For The Foundation for The Mother and Child Health Office
1. Fax machine – 1 unit
2. Scanner - 1 unit
3. Printer - 2 unit
4. Simple Camera digital - 1 unit
5. Megaphone - 1 unit
6. A4 Paper
Complementary for collecting baseline data at the scavenger dump site:
1. Soap bar 500
2. Small bottled shampoo or 500
3. Carton milk with strawberry / vanilla flavor
Regular Medical Services:
1. Ear Thermometer 1 unit
2. Pediatric Stethoscope 1 unit
3. Adult stethoscope 1 unit
4. Basic surgeon kit 1 set
5. Hemocue 1 set
6. Medical torch 1 unit
7. Multi check Kit (Glucose / uric acid / cholesterol Test) 1 set
8. Deworming drugs
9. Regular medication (URTI, Diarrhea, Fever, vitamins) – syrups are more preferable
10. Gauze for dressings
11. Crepe Bandages.
The Staff and Volunteers of Yayasan Balita Sehat thank you for your continued support.
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