Help The Underprivileged Children In Jakarta
Dear Happy Angels and Friends,
This is the third consecutive year that Happy Angels, with the help of our Indonesian counterpart, will be reaching out to help the underprivileged in Jakarta. Unlike the previous year, Happy Angels will be working with another charitable organization, Sahabat Anak. Sahabat Anak, (which means friends of children) was established in 1997 with a mission to help and befriend children from dysfunctional families. Since then, they have been actively involved in various local activities to help the street children. You may find out more about this organization at www.sahabatanak.com.
With this new collaboration, Happy Angels aims to reach the underprivileged in a different way this year. According to a health report in 2008, there were at least 18 million malnutrition children in Indonesia. The long term effects of malnutrition may lead to physical, mental and intellectual problems in a child, and sometimes even death. Various reasons contribute to this huge figure. Poverty, which leads to the inability to afford basic necessities such as food, and uneducated parents, who are unaware of the importance of nutrition are some of the main culprits.
This year, Sahabat Anak takes up the responsibility to help in launching the campaign to create awareness on food nutrition for the children. They are also inviting generous donors to provide nutritious meals for the underprivileged children. With a mere sum of Rp50,000 (about S$7.50), Sahabat Anak will be able to provide 10 meals per child. Each child will then be able to receive one nutritious meal (price about Rp5,000) on a weekly basis over 10 weeks. This campaign will last till July 2010.
Happy Angels will be participating in this meaningful campaign by sponsoring 100 under privileged children. This will be a long term project for Happy Angels. We aim to continuously providing the nutritious food for these children even after the first 10 weeks. On 31 January 2010, Happy Angels and Sahabat Anak will be distributing the first pack of nutritious meal to the sponsored children. Should you have a Jakarta night stop flight (crew member) or are interested to be present for this event, please contact Irene @ +62 8180 668 66 88. If you are interested to make monetary contribution, please contact Christine @ +65 9225 3834.
A pack of nutritious meal for the children may include green beans, eggs, biscuits, fruits and milk. Although it doesn’t cost much to provide healthy and nutritious food, to these children however, this meal is very hard to come by. With your care and concern that we share through your contribution, not only will we bring joy to the little ones, but most important of all health!
Your Sincerely,
Irene Oi And Christine Tho
Happy Angels
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