Four Basic Rights of The Child

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The United Nations Convention on the rights of the  child states that there are four basic rights of  the child to be fulfilled. The four rights are the child’s right to survival, the child’s right to protection, the child’s right to development, and the child’s right to participation. Almost all nations in the world, including […]

Next Step of The Dreamhouse’s Social Assistance Commitment: Strengthening Mentoring Capacity as a Key Force

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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 […]

Understanding

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All we see is not the real appearance. Even what we are seeing is the possibility of the outer skin with the wound on the inside starting to rot. She needs a touch on the wound, not on the skin. He needs to know that he needs help. That’s what I see from Amel. Nobody […]

Solidarity That Transforms

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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 […]

I CAN TOO

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by Lynne Stillings I came to Rumah Impian as a Fulbright researcher studying children’s musical expression and identity in Java. I learned that some of the students at the school I was researching at had been street children. I learned about Rumah Impian and the mission to get children off the street and into school. […]

The Way They Bounce Back

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By Clara Siagian “Once you label me, you negate me” Søren Kierkegaard. Today is quite a day for Ratih. She and her friends will be performing a unique musical performance in Taman Pintar; plainly but in creative sense called Musik Kaleng Rombeng. Ratih joins the rehearsal at the back yard of her school SDK Mangunan […]