THIS project was established soon after the tsunami, which claimed a great number of victims. It was Elke Lies, 56, then a German-language course instructor at the Goethe Institut Bandung, who emerged with her idea to help survivors of the disaster. What struck her at that time was how to find a way of saving children who were orphaned by this calamity.

She was moving between Aceh and Medan for some time before finally meeting Tati Buesing, an Ind