On May 20-21 2021, the board members of the Dreamhouse Foundation have held the latest and also the first internal mentoring workshop and training in 2021. The workshop which contains a basic introduction to the Dreamhouse social mentoring project in collaboration with an International Sponsoring Institution, Kerk in Actie (KIA) for the period of 2021-2022 […]
Everyone knows something that you don’t. Extended exchanges and interactions facilitate a gaining of knowledge, essentially, learning. As an organization that provides education to children and more specifically street children around Yogyakarta, Rumah Impian also functions as a place where local and international volunteers can learn alongside the children. For the past month or so, […]
At the beginning the activities in the first week, new children participate in the activities of the Dream House. He was named Nina, who now sits in 7th grade at one of Yogyakarta’s public colleges. He accidentally came to talk about his problem at school with his friend. I appreciate him enough so that he […]
“Kalau sapi sing ning lapangan kuwi yo gedhe, wernane putih, anakke yo gedhe.” The babbling of a little girl under a bridge. This child is so happy and excited to tell the various things he has encountered around him. Rara this beautiful and always cheerful girl walked on the age of five, the age where […]
I’m, Lina, have been with Yayasan Rumah Impian Indonesia since 2010. Before joining this foundation and going to school again, I worked as a merchant in Lempuyangan Market. My long working hours start from 4 am to 4 pm, but finally I gave up because my body is not strong. A friend offered me a […]
OXNARD, Calif. – When Hector Betanzos won a full ride to Princeton University last fall, the university made him an offer to sponsor a community service gap-year in Indonesia. The Oxnard High School graduate is taking the opportunity to pay it forward in in Yogyakarta Indonesia. Since September he has been a volunteer at a local non governmental organization called Rumah […]
Street children The existence of street children in Indonesia has been recorded since the 1980s, but since the multidimensional crisis in mid-1997, the number of street children increased rapidly. According to data from the Center for Data and Information (Pusdatin) Department of Social Affairs, the number of street children from year to year shows significant […]
Written by Casmira G. De Araujo The day on Saturday, December 9, 2017 Young Leaders Initiative of Southeast Asia (YSEALI) cooperate with Gather Community ODD and Yogyakarta merit 50 participants from different communities and individuals to participate in the “Social Innovation Talk on JogjaSDGs Workshop” in Asean Youth Action Projecter (YAA), I represent Yayasan Rumah […]