Roslin Orphanage Blog

Not easy for us to see directly what we are seeing at the village area . Very sad at the present time to see  the suffering people with all diseases that they cannot afford to help them self.  BUT actually we can help them to be healed ( at least partly) of their suffering . For ten years   Roslin Orphanage  tries to help to nurture and educate children so that children who have been displaced and struggling to live with the disease can live healthier, cleaner and can achieve higher education. But recently when we visited the villages we believe that we all can help to  heal them and simultaneously reduce the likelihood they are sick with two simple things.

So far they must go far to get water for their cooking and drinking water. They use old plastic jerrycans of cooking oil or paint. With these two items the villagers  to walk and carry water for them to take home. Every time they need water , then they must again to the water source and at the time of return can only carry small quantities of water. They want to have adequate water storage at home but they are not able to make it or buy it

These pictures are taken at few different villages

This is the type of water that the people are collecting , without a place to make it subsiding it will be a very bad kind of water that they must consume it and no other choice.

the current condition that most people are having at the village area

This is the kind of plastic bucket that we want to give

How to help them.

1 .   We can help them by giving them a large plastic bucket with a lid as their  clean water reservoirs. The size of the bucket’s capacity of 100 Liter. By having clean water supplies at home so they can better utilize their time (no need to go to the water resources early in the morning when the kids want for school or when they want to cook). Plastic bucket was able to give them shelter from dust and to avoid the possibility of mosquitoes to breed.

If the water reservoirs ( storage)  is not closed then the dog or cat can drink from water reservoirs. This is very dangerous and there are likely people will be infected by a virus transmitted by dogs or cats (or by a bacterial disease that exist in air)
Given a closed plastic buckets, the villagers will be able to avoid its possible contaminated water or infected by various diseases that come from his dirty drinking water).

Large plastic bucket for them will be difficult to be bought and taken it back to their village. First they have to go into town and buy it, then buy her a plastic bucket and later they should bring them back to their village. Cost for them to go into town alone have been hard they get. To bring a big bucket home they have to pay around 40 000 rupiah or USD $ 4 on top of the fee for the person.

If they go to town , for one way they must  pay about 50 000 (if the return trip is the 100 000 rupiah), locally the price of a 100 L bucket is 95 000 rupiah, plus the cost of bringing home buckets of 40 000 rupiah then for sure they will not be able to afford it.

2. How to help the second one is providing them with a mosquito net. This mosquito nets to prevent them from contracting malaria. It is an epidemic thing for this area.
It would be good if we could give each of two mosquito nets for every family of the village.  A mosquito net will cost about 50 000 rupiah each.

the net that we gave few months back

with the mattress that we gave

If you want to provide a village family with a bucket and two of this mosquito net, the price is  around 195 000 rupiah, or about 20 USD.
Or
If anyone wants to provide in the form of buckets and mosquito nets then please send it  to the Roslin Orphanage  and we will help to distribute them to the village.We can distributed them together with our mobile library visits to the village area.

Your 20 USD will be able to help a family greatly. The plastic buckets will last at least for 5 years and the mosquito nets may be about 2 years.

More and more people in the rural being given this help the village people will be  healthier.

Roslin Orphanage has committed to buy 50  sets so far  ( USD 1000 ) but  lots more families to be helped.

Please help if you can.

Any amount will be greatly appreciated and it will directly be given to the ultimate receivers.

The best if you can come in person and give the items by your self to the ultimate receivers.

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.

Sandy the new baby

sandy being introduced to other other children

This is the house type in this area