Projects in Indonesia

AMSAI Preschool

Location: Lampung
Contact: Didi Ananda Manimala
Email: amanimala.ac@gmail.com
Tel: +62 82375990330, WhatsApp

Serving children aged 2-6 years (playgroup, kindergarten, daycare) holistic-integrative also catering to special needs children. In total 74 children, 29 of whom graduated this year.

In 2009 I was transferred to Lampung, armed with the phone number and name of the person I would have to go to. We met after three days. I told him my intentions and goals so that he would be willing to lend a place to open an early childhood school and spiritual activities. He agreed, and showed me a place that was vacant. Immediately we began to rehab the place. The next day, I was asked to go shopping to buy games for teaching equipment. In my free time, I started teaching at he house of my patron –  his 2-year-old son and the son’s friend.Thus the school strted in June 2009 with 2 children.  

The rehabilitation work on the building was completed on October 5, 2009.  The pre-school was inaugurated, with 3 children and 2 teachers including myself.   Thankfully, I was given a teacher who had teaching experience in International schools. 

In December 2009, we had 12 children but at that time, our school had no outdoor play equipment –  the children complained!  Also there was an earthquake in Padang, so I had to go away for 3 months to help there. During that time we added 1 teacher. The 2 teachers and the children ate vegetarian food. There was no funding so the teacher brought her own food from home for the children. 

By the grace of God, things have progressed much since then.  We now have 74 children and our school is part of the AMURT Indonesia program on child-centred early childhood education. 

Cempaka Kids

Location: Karangasem, Bali
Contact: Ni Putu Suri Darmayanti, S.Pd (Sarita)
Email: sarita311981@gmail.com
Tel: +62 8214456467, WhatsApp

Our school is a school with a natural concept. We have day care, play group and kindergarten services and accept students from 1-6 years old. Our school also accepts students with special needs.

We started this school because of our interest in the Neohumanist education, unlike other schools which generally only emphasize cognitive and moral development but not spiritual development. And generally schools do not provide educational services that humanize and liberate their students, but tend to satisfy educators/teachers with high academic values and a system that makes students stressed and unhappy.  

Narayan Seva Children’s Home

Contact: Didi A Mohatita, Didi A. Samarpita
Email: narayanseva@gmail.com
Tel: +62 87862669301, WhatsApp

We are running a children’s Home that was started in June 2004 . Currently we have 83 kids from toddlers to adults.

1. We want to save children, especially girls. 
2. To provide a loving shelter for orphans, single parents, broken families, and abused children.
3. To provide the best education based on NHE and holistic way of life.

We realised strongly that we must do something for the Balinese community and kids but we didn’t have any place or fund to support our idea. In the beginning we made a legal foundation and many proposals to support us financially. 

We have 4700 sq. meter land donated by a senior margii. We built 8 buildings for the operation of a children’s home. Since it started around 200 children have passed through Narayan Seva 

Every year, we have around 15 to 18 kids who stand for first to third rank in the school/class. We have created strong and positive support of the community surrounding our home by giving them free yoga and English classes. We have 30 children who have graduated from university. Out of 30 university children we have 4 trained LFTs who have been working with us. We also have purchased some land in order to make a vocational course school in the near future . 

I would like to share a story – It was 2007 and we had around 12 children at our home. We were living a very basic style of life. One night, we didn’t have rice to cook for next morning. We worried and slept wondering what to do (usually we cooked soft rice porridge for breakfast). Early next morning we saw an old man carrying a 15 kg rice bag. Holding it over his head he came on foot to our home. We were surprised to see him coming on foot and I couldn’t recognize him . Then he told that he met me last year and I told him about our home . I then recalled meeting him. He said that he arrived in Singaraja last night to see his family and he remembered me so he planned to see me. He thought if he wanted to see Didi, he should bring some rice for the children. He spent around an hour with us and then he left. We sobbed and were very happy to have rice for few more days. But today as I write this story I realise that we have never seen that man again in these 15 years. After that day we have never had any food crisis at our home. Our home has an organic farm and we produce our own organic fertilizer. We used to have biogas but it has broken and it can’t be repaired so we need to make a new one. We also have solar cells for electricity but it needs an expensive battery so we are still in question what to do with the solar panels.