Bringing Home Street Children
The central government plans to clean the nation’s streets of wandering and homeless children by 2014. To this end, Rp1.4 million for each of an estimated 230,000 street children, is being readied. But a number of NGOs and individuals are going ahead with innovative programs to address this social problem. Tempo English Edition reports from Papua, Bali and Makassar.
May 18, 2011
From Rejection to Acceptance
Kanjal is the largest organization for street children in Papua. The founders are former street kids who do their best with self-generated funding.
THE small boy was wearing knee-length pants. A red T-shirt circled his neck. The midday heat beat down on him in the Sinagma Terminal, Wamena, the mountainous region of Jayawijaya. His small hands skillfully scooped up water from a pool, spraying it onto an automobile,
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