The Street Is Not For The Kids
What comes to your mind when you see scenes like these? A mother carrying her baby while selling newspapers at an intersection. A 10-year-old child going around selling their goods to people relaxing at tourist spots.
Category: Features
Four Basic Rights of The Child
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 […]
Children’s Literacy in Indonesia
The low interest in reading in Indonesia can be influenced by several factors, such as the lack of early reading habits. However, the early years of a child’s life, known as the golden age, are a critical period for their rapid growth and development, during which parents can shape their child’s character.
Next Step of The Dreamhouse’s Social Assistance Commitment: Strengthening Mentoring Capacity as a Key Force
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
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
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 […]
Keep Believing in your dreams
Nia and Rocky are two children whom the Dream House helps. Nia and Rocky are brother and sister, who are just like other children, living their lives as good children for their families. Nia loves dancing, and she is actually very good at it. She joined a dance group who represent the province of Yogyakarta […]
I CAN TOO
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
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 […]