At Klakah Dhuwur village, posing together with the children and our bro Yoseph Wijaya
This 3rd trip to Jogjakarta for the Merapi volcano victims was started with a good flight from LA to Singapore . It was on the 23rd morning at 06 00 am when I arrived from LA . Few hours later Peggy and I were departed to Jakarta then to Jogjakarta as planned. This time we are still unable to go to Jogjakarta directly as the flights to Jogjakarta were canceled. Praise The Lord we were able to get seats to Solo which is some 60 km away from Jogjakarta. My brother Santoso and his son Franky pick us up at Solo and indeed we are glad that we do not have to use a taxi as we are having so much luggage of more than 100 kg extra with us ( for the relief efforts).
On this trip to Jogjakarta we are so blessed for having brother Yoseph Wijaya , an outstanding person in his work for humanity and the genuine character which I can learn a lot from . Praise The Lord for having him as part of the team . Thank you bro Yoseph for assisting us fully with your time , energy and gifts for the people in need. We were not having any idea that things will be made so easy by his involvements. From his contacts we were enabled to reach the places and the people who are really needed to be helped. We went to a place which is only 4,5 km from the volcano peak , it is called as Klakah Dhuwur and Klakah Ngisor. We did not bring much food items but what we brought for them are items which really needed. Praise The Lord for the chance which is being given to us to come to those villages. I hope that those two villages are ok because last night there has been a heavy rain over that area which flood of cold Lahar is prone to happen. last night at Jogjakarta city , one of the river ( Code ( old spelling is Tjode) river) was full with debris and big volume of flood of cold lahar ( lava) . Some people living near Code river must be evacuated.
Klakah village is having an elevation of 2500 Meter and most of the people are farmer of strawberry , tomatoes, potatoes, celery, spring onion ( onion) , cauliflower, lettuce and some other veggies. Right now all of their crops are totally destroyed, living has been based on survival matter and worst of all it is a cold place . With the cold , not having enough food and clothes is not a nice thing to be in it. Praise The Lord we were bringing lots of blankets for them , some towels, underwear ,lots of soap and detergent, woman's clothing , woman sanitation peds, diapers , sardines, corned beef, milk powder, sweet soy souce, cooking oil , 1000 bottles of cough syrup, 1200 bottles of eye drops and many more useful items. Based on our past experience we are making the gifts into a package. We cannot give in the form of big package and letting them to share equally , because it will create such a condition where greed and selfishness to come out . To the extreme we might even create a fatality because people are quarreling and might kill each other just because of some small gifts.
There is a plan for us to help them again after they are able to tilt their soil . We are planning to give seeds and other means for them to be able to restart planting their crops again. At the moment they are needing help for the next one month or 5 weeks till they are able to have a harvest on their own.
Another plan by a friend to set up a temporary school in tents until they are able to rebuild their schools again . Please help us to think and pray for the conditions to be resuming to the previous condition or better like before the mountain erupted.
Our thanks to you All who have been participating with this efforts . Your contribution and prayers has been our strength . We have not been sleeping properly from the time we came to Jogjakarta till when we left Jogjakarta.
Thank you to the Vanderpol family , bro Captain Chris Bek and Medic LLP , bro Jeffy tan, bro Stephen Tay, bro Dilip, sis Susan Lim, iu Mary Agustina, bro Jorge Felicio , bro Leo Kalangi, Ta Cheh Suellen Fung, ms Jo Pang Tsing Yang, Mr Anthonius K Bansena, Mr Jason Wong, my bro Justin Wee, bro Peter Twang and few more Angels that I cannot mentioned their names.
Our special thanks to Toko Abadi and Toko Ladosa ( both are at Mangga Dua Shopping complex) for giving us a special discount for the towels and for the woman clothes. These shops were giving us some 60 % discount special for the relief efforts.
We are so happy that we are able to deliver the gifts to the ultimate receiver timely.
Join me on my next trip to the same place or another place which needing the help .
We have already stock up some 1000 more of sarongs which yet to be distributed on our next visit to this volcano eruption victims. It is unfortunate that we have to cut short the trip by one day , it is because of Peggy's uncle was passed away . She is now attending the funeral (Nov 30th).
Have a blessed day to All, Always
Budi Peggy and the children
type one package of blankets , towel and under wear
packing into a package containing of cooking oil, sweet soy souce, soap, detergent , eye drops , cough syrup,sardines , corned beef etc
towels
type two of blankets and others made into one package
one type of the package to give away
medication
some of the cough syrup
one of the 3 packages sent by ibu Rita Handayani of Erricson
after days of heavy rain the ash is still so visible to be seen on rocks and others
Roslin Orphanage has been blessed with a visit by Ms Barbara Wagner . She is from San Francisco , USA. accompanied her is Ms Sasya Tranggono from Jakarta. Indeed when we bought the land for this orphanage we did not even see the place and indeed when we build the orphanage we were in the middle of no where but now we are so blessed to be able to host 73 children in a good and healthy environments. Indeed we are so blessed with such a visit from friends even though they are half way across the world like Ms Barbara Wagner. We are sharing the idea of the joy to look after and to help out the little ones that is why they were visiting us. Ms Barbara is from 4Life company which producing products based from Colostrum (www.barbara.my4life.com, www.transferfactor.com).
Ms Barbara and Ms Sasya were spending their precious time with the children at the orphanage, it is a great honor to have them both. We are so thankful for their visit.
Peggy escorting Ms Barbara Wagner and Ms Sasya from Jakarta to Kupang
and this is when they just arrived
Ms Sasya and her quality time with the children
Ms Barbara Wagner with Sandy and the twins Karini and Karina
Ms Sasya Tranggono
this is the nonstop happy and laughing baby Sandy
Our tiredness and hard work can easily be overcame with such a smile like what Sandy has been given us. We are so thankful top have Sandy with us. He was from a place about 250 km away from the orphanage. Peggy was told that there was a baby whom the mom passed away and the family was in a bad shape. Without waiting for me to be with Peggy, she cannot wait and she picked up Sandy without any delay. It was a long way top travel to his home town but after seeing this nonstop smiles what we have done has been paid off . Praise The Lord for this always happy baby Sandy.
If we ask our self , how many times have we open up our junk mail ? I am sure the answer is almost never to most of us. It was almost my last day spending my annual leave at the orphanage. It was rather unusual I can have a strong signal of internet using our newly bought USB modem ( usually the signal is rather weak and to open email has been so slow) . Anyway I was so happy to be able to have the internet connection and able to surf some website and especially to open my email. It has been for years that I will never touch my junk mail rather than deleting it without looking what has been in the junk mail.
On that day for some reason I was curious about what will be on my junk mail so I open the junk mail for the very first time ( there were about 200 junk mail when I open it ). Sure enough most of them were junks and things related to selling items , alcohol , pornography and website dating matter. Instead of deleting the whole junk mail I deleted one by one until I struck to a rather different email. This email was telling me about me getting a recognition from Frost and Sullivan to me for doing our orphanage activities in the category of EXCELLENCE IN LEADERSHIP, Praise The Lord .
All of the good thing and on this occasion is nothing about us but all are actually control and arranged by The Lord himself. It is a privilege to be an instrument for His glory and His glory only.
It was a special evening for me and Christine to see such a wonderful work upon arranging the room as the room was arranged so greatly ( grand) for the awards ceremony. At least 40 tables ( 400 seats) and the decoration was fantastic. I must congratulate Mr Kenny Yeo for the arrangement that has been made for this occasion. I am so lucky to have Christine to represent her mom ( Peggy ) to be with me. Peggy is still at the orphanage now as she must supervise the new generator installation, submersible water pump installation and directing the workers where and how to build the generator's shelter. Praise The Lord for enabling Peggy to do all the jobs that must be done without any delayed. It was a special night for me to be sharing the stage with CEO of KIA , CEO of Sam Sung , CEO of the Star company ( Mr Bret Mattes) ,Director of KISTI Ms Eunsun Kim, so many other CEO including Singapore SingTel CEO (which was represented by her vice) .
I am accepting the award of behalf of my wife Peggy, our children ( Christine ,Tassya and Christian) , the orphanage children and humanity.
Thank you to Frost and Sullivan for the recognition which giving us a great deal of encouragement to continue what we have been doing for the last 10 years in West Timor.
Thank you to Mr Satish Lele for spending time with me . Mr Satish Lele was one of the Rotary Club President in India some few years back.
Thank you to Ms Cecilia Chan for making our table feel so easy and relax.
The award was given to me by Singapore senior Minister Mr Zainul Abidin Rasheed.
The letter was sent to me by Manoj Menon, Partner and Asia Pacific Managing Director with Frost & Sullivan on the 9th of September and I found it on the junk mail on the 18th.
I was so happy to see Indonesian Ambassador Mr Wardhana was invited for this occasion too but later I was so disappointed to see him leaving the function before the award presentation was given to any of the recipient including to see his fellow Indonesian which being awarded such a prestigious award.
Our daughter Christine Soehardi and me
Christine posing with Mr Rico M Hizon of BBC News Asia Bureau
me and Mr Satish Lele , VP of Industrial Technology Asia pacific
A notification was given to us from Kapan town area. A baby boy was said to be needing a place for him grow better as the original family is not able to afford a normal upbringing. An extreme poverty case has yet to be dealt with. Peggy has been so busy with so many things that she must do it by her self while I am working and not being able to be with her. A delay on picking up the baby will be worsening the baby's health only thus more difficult case to handle it later.accompanied by two sister visitor from Jakarta miss Susan and her friend , Peggy went to Kapan town area. It was some 3 hours and 40 minutes journey for us to get there.
Amazing scenery were existing when we are near the village as it is situated at some 1000 M elevation from the sea level and the rainy season was just ended. The road is not so good and wide but it has been the situation that we have been dealing with since 1999 .
Our trip villages have been somewhat interesting and full of fun at the same time. Some time we can not feel sad when we are seeing an extreme poverty situation but usually after the trip and when we are alone quite often we were crying when we are remembering the people that we were visiting. We were forced to smile when we are with the village people as we must not show our deep sadness for seeing their condition for we are coming to give them an encouragement and help as much as we can. It is not fun to find a child with a bad skin problems. To the people in Timor who are living in the village area , skin problem is difficult to be treated as ( usually) they do not have enough clean water in their house hold. Sanitation is just a dream for them to making it to happen. Things are based on their strength and immunity to stay alive . A wound dressing case has been quite routine for all of our visit to the village area. Our weapons are very basic First Aid Kits only but usually the children skin problems are healed in a few days time after we clean them an d giving them some ointments.
From this visit we are richer by one more baby and his name is Sandy Steven Raymond Bonoit. He has a mother which she must work hard at the farm for she is the main person to do it . The mother ( grandma of the child) is so frail already and not much physical thing that she can do properly. Sandy is our 57th child for the orphanage.
