The new year has started, and we are ready for a year full of energy, more education, medical program update, high school students, entrepreneurship, creative development and a lot of fun!!!

Our goals for 2010 are;

• Cooking – learning about food
• Making your own business plan with cooking and with sewing
• Continue the creative, English, math program
• Continue the medical/dental program, Kate a new volunteer who is a nurse will take this task on. She will make the medical program up and running better then ever before!
• Community, be involved and have a good liaison with the RT and all the people in it. People can use the shelter for their own use, like parties, meetings. We have the following conditions. If people want to use the shelter; it’s free, no gambling or alcohol are aloud, Ina, Alice or Ratna should be informed, if they use water or electricity it will cost 5.000 per time.
• Have mothly themes
• Computer, learn to typ and use word. No internet, movies, games etc are needed right now.
• Involve the mothers, maybe in the beginning they will only watch, but eventually they will learn how to take care and help to develop their children.
• Scholarship for high school students. Ecoval Dairy Trade has sponsored us with a big sum of money to accomplish this!!!

As a Christmas promotion and PR-stunt we are selling chocolates in Australia!!! Interested in buying? Please contact Emmy on indoshelter@gmail.com

We have had a very generous sponsor, Nicky&Rob, they have donated various chocolates, which Indoshelter sells in the Melbourne area for AUD 3,- per bag. There are typical Australia macadamia nuts, and there are picknick bars. No clue what to do with the picknick bars?? Here are some ideas!

Picknick milkshake!

You need:

• Blender
• Vanilla ice cream
• Milk
• Honey
• Picknick bars in pieces

-         Put 2 big scopes of ice cream in the blender

-          fill 1/3 of  the blender with milk en put the pieces of picknick bar and some honey

-         Blend this for 10 seconds

-         Poor in 4 glasses and top op with cream! Yummmmy!

Picknick Ice cream!

You need:

• mixer
• 250 ml double cream
• pick nick bars in pieces
• 1 table spoon sugar
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar

-         Wisk the cream with the sugar till stiff

-         Make sure the picknick bars are in very small pieces and mix them with the cream

-         Put the mixture in 4 small glasses/bowls

-         Put in the freezer for 2 hours

Decorate with strawberries, Yummmmmmy!

We made 100 euro’s with the chocolates!!! thanks for everyone who has sponsored us!

As our goals are to educate children and their parents about good health, food and hygiene, we are keen on this. Keyko noticed that the kids were often dirty and smelled a bit…so we made this into a game! We organised a bath contest for the mothers. They learned what a good bath means and why it is important, also after the bath there was cutting nails and cleaning ears with baby oil and a cotton bud. It was a great and educating day, with a lot of smiles, some drinks and a winner of course!

We have had a incredable donation, we have got our own laptop!! Now the children can learn to use word and exel. They will be in a big advantage with this skill. We have cleaned the shelter and moved things around. So now there is a beautiful computer room! The toys room is all neat and there are some nice posters of Indoshelter in the main class room. We are very proud of this, and so are the kids!

After the teacher workshop at SMK Palebon Semarang Mr. Kevin Dalton was invited to visit Indoshelter. Also people from TV came and took some video shots for the Semarang news. 
Arriving at Indoshelter many kids gathered and some parents too. They performed very nice dances, and sang some songs too. Mr Kevin was impressed by Indoshelter and very proud of Keyko. He talked to Mardian about funding and experienced. We hope he can come and visit us again!

Program:      

Culture Exchange, No Understanding No Love

Participants:

Mr. Kevin Dalton from Australia (KangGURU Indonesia)

Mrs. Mardian Van Raaij from Holland (Indoshelter)
Mrs. Ritu Kumar from India (Indoshelter)
Ms. Keyko (KangGURU Indonesia, Indoshelter, English Soul Community)
Teachers of SMK Palebon Semarang 20 persons
SMK Palebon students 75 persons
INDOSHELTER students and volunteers 20 persons
ENGLISH SOUL COMMUNITY 25 members
Journalists and reporters 10 persons

We started at 10 am, all of the students gathered in the hallway of SMK Palebon Semarang.  Today they will join in a very special event; the Culture exchange NO understanding, No Love.

The program was opened by the students of SMK Palebon Semarang they performed Tari Gambyong. This is a Javanese dance and as dedicated specially for all the guests who attended the program. Then continued by a speech from Mrs.Jumilah, the principal of SMK Palebon Semarang. She said she was happy that her school was able to join this event and it will motivate her students to be more interested to learn English. After this Yani a student of Indoshelter came on stage and performed the TARI MERAK or peacock dance. 

After this pleasant break Mrs. Mardian van Raaij came on stage and talked about her country the Nederlands. She wore the traditional Dutch custom for woman in the winter. And she looked very pretty. She talked about her activities with Indoshelter and many people were interested to know more about Indoshelter. There were many questions about Indoshelter from the students and teachers. Mrs Mardian was very happy to answer all of them. The program continued with the performance by the Indoshelter students with an Indian dance called DANDIYA. It was choreographed by Mrs. Ritu Kumar and Miss Keyko. The kids got some very good responses!

This intermezzo suited perfect to announce the next speaker; Mrs. Ritu Kumar. She talked about her lovely country India. She wore very nice sari and she looked beautiful and exotic with her traditional clothes…She explained many things about India like the ‘Dandiya’ and also talked about the traditional clothes. She even sang a very famous song ‘OST Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ and when most of the students followed her singing it sounded even more colourful. Then the program continued with the performance of acoustics guitars players from the English Soul Community. They sang 2 songs: Leaving on the Jet Plane and Irreplaceable, music arrangements by Tanti and Mita (English Soul Community). Again the audience enjoyed it a lot.

The last speaker of the day was Mr Kevin Dalton. First he promoted KGI and the Indonesia – Australia partnership. He gave a lot of information about KGI and the OZ-INDO connection. He also talked about he indigenous aboriginals. Many students wanted to know more about KGI and also about Australia. Then Kevin gave some games for the audience which was appreciated a lot!!! Because the prizes from KGI are wanted a lot and keep them active in their English. He also taught the Australian song called ‘G’day G’day’ and everyone sang it together, it was terrific!!!!….

Then the program continued by giving the souvenirs and trophy’s  for all the guests and ended with a performance by the Indoshelter students thet did the dance ‘AKHLI KHULI HOYA HOBAN the OST’ of Mohabatien, choreographed by Keyko and Tanti.

It was a wonderful day where everyone learned a lot.

Thanks to all of the sponsors; KangGURU Indonesia, INDOSHELTER, English Soul Community and SMK Palebon Semarang.

Also for all the media who published our program,  thanks to : TV-Ku Semarang, Harian Suara Merdeka, Harian Semarang, Meteor.

We hope that in the future we can keep this cooperation and develop it even to a higher platform.

As Karin is living in Thailand it is difficult for her to organize the daily finance at the shelter. First we had Martien, but she has left Indonesia. Now Alice Lukas is joining the Indoshelter team and will do the finance in Semarang. Karin will of course take care of the finance overall, and make the yearly report. Witt only Ina, Mardian and Ratna left in Semarang we are very happy with this new member.  So a very warm welcome for Alice! Lateron Alice will introduce herself!

As we want to be part of the community we try to be involved in what is happening around us. And this seems to work, we still get children coming to us, the neigbors are friendly and we now even had a request from the RT (the manager of the neighborhood) He asked if he could use the shelter for the ‘Halal Bil Halal’. The reception after the Ramadam. We are happy we are getting more and more involved in this comunity, this way we can reach out to more people, and who knows slowly also adults would like to get reading and wring lessons?!

Anak Wayang is an organisation that sponsors Indonesian projects for children stimulating their creative minds, which is exactly what we try to do! So after we have discussed with them what we do and filled in an application they have decided to sponsor our project with a big sum of money, to be spend on creative, musical activities. Mr Bram and Ms Anna where at Indoshelter to have a look, and they where impressed! The children happy busy with their latest ‘hobby’ embroidery! And…the boys like this the most!!! We keep them busy with new things every time, and they keep us surprised, every time!

Thanks you Anak Wayang for your wonderful support.

On Thursday Augustus 2 2009. 11 Kids from the SIS (Semarang International School) visited Indoshelter. They came there with Mr Chris, Ms Eka, Mr Supri and some mums. All the kids where very happy to meet eachother. They played together and had lunch also had some ice cream.

 Keiko and Tanti where also there and gave a welcome performance, a traditional dance. The kids played games which where lead by Mr imam and Ms Eka. The first game was that every kid had to choose a picture of an animal and then they must make the soundof this animal. With the sound, they must go to another child to see if they can find the same sound, well same animal. They loved it! Slamet had the snake and went to Mr Iman… ssss ssshhhh  who also made a sssshh sshhhh sound,  then they became friends in the group. A great way of meeting and playing together!

The Indoshelter kids where very happy to meet the SIS students. One week before the Indoshelter kids prepared to do the welcome performance dance and song. Also the SIS student where very interested (this term they have to learn about community and living). After playing games, they had a meal SIS provided from ‘Timlo Solo restaurant’, then having an ice cream! Which is a big treat for the street children, thet hardly ever have ice cream!!