our brief history for the last 10 years

1. “ Roslin Orphanage “ in West Timor byBudi Soehardi and family

2. By : Rotarian Budi Soehardi and family

3. "It began in 1999 with an unplanned trip to the refugee camps in East Timor. The trip was triggered by a TV program showing us about the East Timor refugees.

4. Something for the children

5. Inside our house

6. At Changi airport

7. At the Check in counter

8. Things were flown to Jakarta then by ship to Surabaya (22 hours), to Bali 17 hours and finally to Kupang ( West Timor) 28,5 hours. At Kupang we were buying and packing a lot more items such as food, sanitation, vitamin and many things for the children.

9. 51 hours of nonstop packing

11. Some of the love gift

14. The are wearing rags

16. After multiple trips to these camps, we decided to rent a house in Kupang City, and care for some of the abandoned babies.“ But ……..

17. "We soon began to realize that we wanted a place of our own, and decided that we would build an orphanage. We planned to build the orphanagein 5 years but we completed the building in 11 months

22. We did it and it was officially opened by the Provincial Governor Alexander Piet Tallo in April 6th 2002.

23. "The orphanage has been a home for so many children, offering them a safe and nurturing environment in which to grow." "Many who have visited the orphanage have been enriched by their experience, and returned home with the deep realization of how fortunate and blessed their lives are."

24. "Many who have visited the orphanage have been enriched by their experience, and returned home with the deep realization of how fortunate and blessed their lives are."

25. 8years ago at the orphanage

26. After 8 years under our care

28. When they came to the orphanage

29. We became a family

30. “At the age of 18 months, Cornelis is able to feed himself”

31. Biscuits on the right hand and the broom on the left hand BUT this is not a child labour matter

32. “A primary-two student washes her uniform”

34. What kind of a place is Timor Island ? “It is the driest province in Indonesia, with the least amount of rainfall.” “It is the poorest province in Indonesia.” “The population is severely lacking in education”

36. Commonly seen hut house

39. We want to study but ………

40. A real class room ?

41. Another class room to study ?

42. “Water is desperately needed in West Timor. The people need help to be able to access clean and drinkable water” “We are so privileged to be able to have clean water on a daily basis”

44. “Even during the rainy season, clean water is not easily available.”

45. It is quite common for two buckets of water they have to walk such a long distance

47. Resting for a while on their way home after carrying the water for quite a distance

48. “walking barefoot in the heat, searching for drinking water for the family”

49. Our precious drinking water

50. Our precious water

51. The efforts to get water

52. A little water is better than no water

53. “Without clean water, skin diseases and ailments can occur at any time.”

54. “Water is desperately needed in West Timor. The people need help to be able to access clean and drinkable water” “We are so privileged to be able to have clean water on a daily basis”

56. “During the famine, we helped to deliver food out on the streets”

58. “The dry season in Timor (from June to November) sees the highest rate of infant mortality, especially in October and November. This is due to illnesses caused by airborne bacteria and lack of clean water to wash things. The people here desperately need access to clean water.”

59. A help from The Rotary International Matching Grant # 66507

60. Rotary club Eclub3310 ( which I am the president Elect) , Rotary Club Suntec City of Singapore and The Rotary Foundation have completed a clean water project in April 2009.

61. The targeted people are the people who live in“ Familiaorphanage” ( an orphanage at Sikumana village) and a joined primary and secondary school near by , its location is about 40 km from Roslin orphanage.

62. Because of our togetherness the project wascompleted and some 600 people are now able to enjoy enough supply of fresh waterdaily

64. This can be made because of our togetherness

65. Celebrating the new water supply

66. Education programs at “Roslin Orphanage”

67. From the beginning Roslin orphanage is focusing the efforts on helping the children with their education. So much has been done but so much more must be deal with.

68. The orphanage has built a fantastic library and with the help of another Matching Grant # 59419 form Rotary International we have been able to provide a mobile library for the people who can not come to the library

69. Our first mobile library

71. Our second mobile library from The Rotary Foundation

73. Lets read2. lets make our self literate3. through reading we can reach our goals

74. Reading is good

75. Please come more often

76. By another Matching Grant # 61236 we are getting the huge help from The Rotary Foundation , Rotary Club Eclub3310 and we areproviding good books for our “ Bolelebo” library.

77. Roslin Orphanage have built two library buildings on our own. With this Matching Grant we are also enabled to buy 4 computers , an audio player and a projector. With these tools we can give the children not only reading materials but also some educational movies.

78. Two library buildings have been built at Roslinorphanage. With a matching grant (#61236) from the Rotary Foundation, we have been able to purchase four computers, an audio player, and a projector for our “Bolelebo” library.

79. It is a fantastic start, but many more learning materials are needed. “Help is always welcome.”

80. “All the way from Singapore, Amy and Chris come to lend a hand by writing the library’s name on the buildingand making foundation for the new dorm

81. Inside library number one

82. Library number two

83. One to one teaching for the weaker student

85. Because of this library our orphanage children are able to have an access to so many fantastic books.

86. The fantastic usage of this library has been enjoyed by the orphanage children . A hug help to enrich their knowledge. We are really grateful

87. One of our orphanage’s children,Gersonhas been accepted and studying at the medical school. We are hoping to have our own in house doctor in 5 or 6 years time. .

88. What can be done through Roslin orphanage

89. Lots of things can be donethrough the orphanage. Teaching and educating the children to be able to help them self . It has been a joy teaching the children how to farm, vocational training for some useful skills and productive activity such as planting peanut, corn, rice, nursery plants , character building etc

90. A success story in Roslin orphanage

91. one year ago I was so worried about when I am retired from my job. Retired to me means I will have no salary to finance the orphanage any longer. Without having some saving even for my own three children, how can I finance the daily needs of the orphanage .

92. With the intention of getting “ any water” we bought 2 water submersible pumps and a generator just in case we will be able to find water. People said that the water is at least 44 Meter or even 70 Meter deep.

93. We have some land for doing farming, but we can not plant anything at all as there is no water. But we tried our luck

94. Thorny bush

95. Big and sharp thorns

96. Land clearing in the process

97. On our first trial upon drilling for water , we struck an artesian water source which a pump and a generator is not required any more. The water is flowing by it self 24 hours a day and even better as the water is drinkable directly from the source. It’s a blessing indeed

98. Because of this water we cleared part of the land to about 2 hectares and made it into a paddy field in 3 months time.

99. Small amount of water but made us to be self sufficient on rice

100. Small but flowing constantly

101. My Peggy is also doing the land clearing beside looking after the orphanage children

102. Budi having fun and great exercise

103. The transformed land

104. Hux, Eduand SIA Chief pilot Alan Chan at our rice field

105. Budi’s happiest moment

106. Its harvest time

107. Husking through the night

108. We planted our first paddy in Jan 2008 and we had our first harvest in April 2008. 1st November 2008 we will be having our 2nd rice harvest while the first harvest is only consumed less than 20% of it. We are declaring our self to be self sufficient on rice since April 2008.

109. We are declaring our self to be self sufficient on rice since April 2008.

110. What can be done through Roslinorphanage ???

111. 78 years “young” CornelisLakusa teaching them through stories.

112. Peggy explaining some family planning to the village mothers about sanitation and birth control

113. Good nutrition and vitamins for the village people

114. A regular Nutritious food for the children age 5 years and below

115. We came and help with food that we cooked during the famine

116. Direct action during the famine

117. Help us to play with the children

119. Teach them any thing that you a are comfortable with

120. Help us to give vitamins to the children

121. Its Christmas

122. Hux ( Lim hui xiang) spending his precious holiday time with the children

123. You may give Free English lesson

124. Such a quality time that you can give

125. Such a quality time

126. 16 Singaporean students were spending 2 weeks for their school projects with us

128. Helping us to peel corn

130. Singapore students doing their school projects for 2 weeks through Roslin orphanage

131. We were giving the some practical experiences of dealing with a culture shock, helping the villagers with paving the floor with cement, teaching them to teach the children and interacting with the local schools etc. Some exercise was given to be resilient and teaching the to live with some basic living conditions.

132. Some exercise was given to be resilient and teaching the to live with some basic living conditions such as sharing he bathroom, cooking with stone made stove and with wood.

133. It was a great trip

134. School uniform is a good gift

135. We try to help our self too

136. Who wants to be a pilot

137. Wound dressing at Roslin Orphanage

138. Encouragement for not quitting school

139. Sis Serene , son Jabez and bro Mark Lee spending their holiday with us

143. Bro Chris and sis Amy helping to make the boy’s dorm’s foundation during their holiday

144. Story telling

145. Interacting with the children

146. teaching

149. Simply so much to do and always

151. Our current progress Our current project is to build the storage room to store our rice harvest and our equipments. This should be done in 4 weeks time if we have all the materials. Only when we are done with this project we will be able to put the children to their dorm which has been forced to be used as a storage room for us ( due to the abundant rice harvest).

152. The next project will be makinga banana farm. For this we need to clear up the land , making a good fence and free us from the nasty thorny bushes. The area is 25 000 M2. At this farm we will breed animals likegoats and some cows.

153. The banana can be sold or made into some food products while the trees are a good source of food for the animals. All of the generated income will finance the orphanage.

154. OUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

155. To build the girl’s dorm and a proper study room. To build a proper school so we can teach properly To continue the nutritious food and vitamin distributions to the children within the our area.

156. To continue the nutritious food and vitamin distributions to the children within the our area.

157. What are the needs

158. Teachers and volunteers Financial help, so that we can do more

159. It will be a honor to us to have you there one day

163. Welcome to Roslin orphanage