Adi Adds Up!
Eight-Year-Old Adi counts on participating in Teman Baik NFE activities to one day achieve his dream!
Category: Indonesia – Teman Baik
A Champion of Child Protection!
For this story, we will focus on one of our #EverydayHeroes from Indonesia–Mrs. Ms.* A vital member of her community, Mrs. Ms. is a mother, a shopkeeper and – a trained ChildSafe Agent! As...
Barista Dreams Big
A call to the Futures Jakarta Hotline was the start of the next step in Andi’s coffee dreams. After some three years of planning, he and his brother finally opened their own coffee shop...
No Business Too Small
Mother of two Yuliana has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. The responsibilities and challenges of being a full time mom did not hinder her from putting up a small sidewalk store (known locally as...
Friends for Families – Jakarta
A routine outreach to the Karet Tengsin community by our #everydayheroes from Teman Baik introduced them to Mr. Ivan* and his family. Concerned neighbors alerted the Teman Baik team about their concerns for the...
Saving ‘New’ Lives in Jakarta
Sumirah,* is a clown beggar, wandering the streets of Jakarta, 8- month old baby in her arms, begging commuters for some small change to help her small family. What they may not have seen,...
Active Agent Protecting Her Community!
Mrs. Meta* is very active in her community within the teeming city of Jakarta. Aside from serving as a female community leader, she is also a preschool and Qu’ran studies teacher and an active...
First Steps to a Brighter Future
For as long as 11-year old Cicilia* (everyone calls her Lia) can remember it had always been her and her grandmother, Mrs. Yati. She never met her father and her mother left to remarry...
ChildSafe Agent: Community Protector
The ideal child protection agent is someone who is brave and active because he/she is the one who moves his community to take action in cases of child abuse. That is exactly what Bu...
An Agent Intervenes
The whole world is suffering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and children are not exempt from the impacts of the spread of this virus. It has become a strange and stressful time for...
Protection – Sharing Skills, Sharing Knowledge
Child Protection is a keystone of the holistic approach that the Friends Alliance programs in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand and Switzerland take to saving Lives and Building Futures for youth, families and communities which...
2016 – Reviewing A Year With Friends
Dear friends of Friends Please join us in looking back at just a very few of the highlights of twelve months during 2016, saving lives and building futures! JANUARY – ChildSafe is a runner-up...
Sebuah bisnis yang berkembang di Jakarta , berkat Yayasan Teman Baik!
More than thirty million people live across the gigantic urban sprawl that is Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. Jakarta is also home to a small but very dedicated Friends program, Yayasan Teman Baik. Since it relocated...
A Year With Friends – Friends-International Country Programs 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, we look back at a year of our Friends-International program work across South East Asia in the company of some of our real #everdayheroes – our Country Program...
‘Listen To The Children…’ One Year On… In Jakarta
One year of outreach in Jakarta… Reflections by our Indonesia Country Program Director, Ghislain Morard. “Today it’s been exactly one year since my colleague Endang and I first went for a long walk in...
