After the Idul Fitri holiday the shelter has started up again in September. Starting with HALAL BIHALAL. We have had many donations, food, snacks, toys, art and craft materials etc. We are all very grateful for everyone feeling attached to the shelter! All the donations make our shelter more colorful and also more powerful. With enough materials we can really mean something for these children, and really give them a new start in life!

Now they can swim in our small pool, especially the smaller children. We also have new CAR GAMES, special CRAFTS (Puzzle Craft) for group D, Masks and Party craft for group A, B and C. And special SEWING materials, so we made a fancy mobilecover.

On September 25’ 2011 we got invitation from Yayasan Setara and SMP IBU KARTINI Semarang for a special art events. Indoshelter presented 3 kind of art dances and an ensemble of music from 3 groups.

TARI SRI PANGANTI the traditional Javanese dance was done by Dewi and Intan (Group D), ensemble music songs we played : Twinkle-twinkle little star, Ambilkan Bulanku and Suwe Ora Jamu by Stefani, Putri O, Lyla, Putri M, Kevin, Slamet, Fauzan, Tegar, Nina, Vito, and yoga (Group C)

BENDERA INDONESIA National dance by ; Nisa, Sifa, Alfia, Via, Reno, Galang, Risqi Ndon, sintha (group B). Most costumes from the Indoshelter wardrobe, which is getting bigger and bigger.

Last but not least we would like to welcoming Pak Berry in the Indoshelter team. With him on board we hope we can make Indoshelter even bigger than before!

August was filled with many guests!

On August 5^th 2011 we had special guests from the Rotary Indra Prasta Club, they visited us and brought very nice things. They donated some vitamins for the big and small children. Not only that, they also brought some stationaries, noodles and snacks.

On  august 10’ 2011 start today we had very special volunteer. She is Nursen Bayazit. She will replace Anna who left last month. She is also from the Dejavato Organization. Nursen is very happy to work with us because she feels that Indoshelter is a very great place for the children in this neighborhood and Indoshelter has a very nice team to work with! She hope she can get involved and pass on her knowledge about helping the environment. So good luck Nursen.

On august 11’ 2011 we had special guest from KGI. His name is Mr. Suryadi, one of the Kangguru Indonesia Representative from Madura. He said that he loved to visit Indoshelter because the students are so polite and there so many activities done with the children. He gave many DVD’s with children song for students to use for dance.

On august 12’ 2011 we had guests Mr. Ketut from Dejavato organization, Jelte, Lyla, Mardian and Pak Rob. We discussed the possibility about a  cooperation between Indoshelter and Dejavato. We had fasting break together for all the children and the parents. We invited 90 people for this program.

On august 19’ 2011 Tanti and Nursen had a special program for the small groups; FUN HOUSE GAMES. The children had to walk on the alphabet mat and they had to choose the color card to know what present they got. The presents were sponsored by Rotary Indra Prasta, Mardian and Rithu Kumar. We also had many spare clothes for the children and parents donated.

On august 21’ 2011 was a special day for Keyko, because she celebrated her one month new born baby! And it was time to give name for the baby. So she invited the group C and D, also some mothers and had a little celebration and fasting break together. Here the name of the cute little baby : Lukey Darren Alghani Hadi.

On July 15^th’ 2011 we had farewell party for Anna Baytaroglu. She was our volunteer for the morning group. She is from the Dejavato Organization. Anna told us that she loved to work with us in Indoshelter. She has learnt a lot during the 9 months she volunteered for Indoshelter. She has learnt how poverty is not a keeping people from concerning about the environment and they do help each other, which something that she can’t find in her country. So thank you Anna for your help!

Recently Indoshelter has started English lessons for mothers, here the list of proud mothers who come every week!

Every Tuesday and Friday start at 10.00-11.30

1. Sri tatik                                                 38 years old
2. Ika                                                          29 years old
3. Yanti                                                      30 years old
4. Erna                                                       27 years old
5. Asih                                                       27 years old
6. Eni                                                          29 years old
7. Dwi                                                        29 years old
8. Saidah                                                   27 years old
9. Nur                                                        32 years old
10. Yeti                                                        32 years oldI

We have had a great party celebrating the 3rd anniversery of Indoshelter.  70 Students, 25 mothers, 4 neighborhood team (Leader) and 1 ustadz joined!

 Time flies when you are having fun, Indoshelter has already been here for 3 years!! So many things happened during these years and Indoshelter is getting stronger and bigger than before. The students were very happy to join our celebrations. Not only did we start to offer a special English class for the mothers and other people from the neighborhood this year (which we received very good feedback for). Ibu RT (the leader of the neighborhood) also showed her interest to join us. She said she would love to study here with us.

Beside that, many new programs have been developed, for example the music section, where we now have an ensemble music group. The parents are also very happy and they expressed their gratitude to Indoshelter for helping their children to get the oppurtunity for better future. Now the mothers realize that education is very important and it takes some effort to get it. Slowly but surely our students do not go back to the street and beg, and the parents also don’t force them to go  back to work on the street again. They hope and pray that Indoshelter will always survive and provide more help to develop their life by giving a very good help with education and school. 

Before the party we had some games and contests for group A-D and the mothers.  They all loved the prizes we had prepared for each of them which were sponsored by : Kangguru Indonesia, Mrs. Ratna Khalili, Mrs. Rithu Kumar and Keyko. They looked so happy when they celebrated our anniversary. They enjoyed the snacks and goodie bags. Even pak Ustadz was very happy that Indoshelter is still located in Delik Rejo. He said that Indoshelter is very helpful for this neighborhood, especially for the children. So VIVA INDOSHELTER!!!!

From Keyko, our head-teacher:

‘First of all HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! Hopefully Indoshelter will be bigger and stronger than before. Tanti and I are so happy and grateful that Indoshelter is still alive and that we are able to help many people. We really enjoy working here because it is a very nice place to work, I mean we work with our heart and love so we’re always happy to be at the shelter.  We can see the children growing up closely. We can see their smiles, their tears and hear their laughter. We can see many parents starting -little by little- to realize that education is important for their children’s development. We are happy we can start to cooperate with them. And they become more open minded than before, which is good for us, because we have an easier communication with them.’

We are very happy having Keyko and Tanti still teaching at Indoshelter, and they do use their whole heart and all the love. So we can be proud of our staff!

As you may have noticed, the posts on the indoshelter website have been away for a while. But Indoshelter hasn’t!!

We have been very, very busy, and luckily from now on we are able to update the whole world again.

What has happend the last few months;

- All the children got a birth certificate, thanks to the girls from Holland

- Keyko got married! A beautiful day and a beautiful brid, she is very happy! And so are we for her. Being married hasn’t stopped her from working hard and donating all her energy to the children from the shelter

- many parties, inclusing our anniversery party!

- we’ll get a new computer to practise

- Keyko has been to Bali for a course from Kang-guru

- and of course we still give a warm second home to all the children from Indoshelter, 5 days a week from 8am-4pm. Listening, educating, coaching and loving the children every day a bit more!!

And many many more things. Pls look at the website for more posts in the future!

The 3 girls from Holland have arrived, and after adjustment to the weather and the time difference they have started with the inroduction. After that they will start to work! And what will they do….

1. Presence of the kids: make a system and check which kids are coming and who aren’t and why they aren’t coming

2. Cleanness: making sure all the rooms and the house is clean and make sure people work with a cleaning system.

3. Facility / maintenance : some things are not done, badminton, paint etc because we have no one to follow up. so they can check and do these things

4. Category/arranging the file – toys – room : sort out the toys, books, cabinet according the categories we made.

Beside this, they will make a special project for Indoshelter. Their own idea, they will have a thought of that in the coming week. At the end of their stay they will hand in a review of the activities for us with their view about indoshelter, (problems, ideas, solution, critic, suggestion etc.)

So girls, good luck!!!

Ina, the manager and multi tasking wonder in Semarang has been very very busy lately. She had done more than we can write down in a short post… One of the things she has done is organize a wonderful coffee afternoon for all the people who have contributed to Indoshelter in some way. Or by doing things, buying things, donating things or all of them together. It was a very pleasant, informal afternoon! Thanks Ina!

Mr Rob van Raaij has visited Indoshelter, and was very pleased to see it was still running well, it was very clean ( latlely we paid some extra attention to cleaning, and it paid off)  and everyone was happy! He took some pictures to give everyone an impression….