Senang Hati Foundation
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Senang Hati Foundation | |
Type | Humanitarian Foundation |
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Founded | 2003[1] |
Headquarters | Bali, Indonesia |
Key people | Putu Suriati, Founder and Chairperson[2][3] |
Method | Skills training, social mainstreaming, materials assistance and housing |
Members | 150+[1] |
Slogan | Senang Hati means "Happy Hearts" |
Website | www.SenangHati.org |
Affiliated with de Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland[4] and Liliane Fonds[4] |
The Senang Hati Foundation, (also known as Yayasan Senang Hati), is a non-profit organization in Bali that assists people living with disabilities. The name Senang Hati means "Happy Hearts" in Indonesian. The foundation creates programmes to develop self confidence, physical and economic independence, and increase awareness in the general community of the rights of people with disabilities.[5] Senang Hati accomplishes this through the assistance of volunteers, by providing skills training, social interaction as well as wheelchairs and housing. The group also runs Senang Hati Places, a home for disabled children.[6]
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[edit] History
The Senang Hati Foundation was founded in Bali by Putu Suriati from Ubud and Vern Cork from Australia, with the involvement of a number of Balinese and expatriates, to provide companionship and assistance to people with disabilities.[3][1] As the numbers involved grew it became more difficult to manage the organization's requirements. Thus in 2003, with the assistance of the Bali Hati Foundation, the organization was formalized as a non-profit and moved into a vacant school that had been donated by Glenn Adams on a five year lease.[3][2]
[edit] Aims
As described on their website, The Senang Hati Foundation aims to:
- Meet with disabled individuals and lift them out of their social isolation.
- Provide technical assistance to achieve physical independence.
- Build confidence in those with disabilities by providing them with a normal social life.
- Build self confidence through assertiveness training.
- Teach skills that will enable members to become self supporting (in particular, skills such as painting, sewing, and woodwork).[7]
A primary function of the center is to seek out disabled people in Bali and provide friendship and assistance, in order to help them to move out of isolation from the wider community and into integration with society.[8]
[edit] Background
- See also: Karma#Spiritism
Non-profit organisations such as Senang Hati are important in Indonesia as government funding for handicapped people is limited. Without assistance from the private sector many disabled Balinese people, including children, remain marginalized, thus limited from benefitting from or contributting to it. In many parts of Indonesia, and certainly in Hindu Bali, having a disabled child is evidence of bad karma.[9][10][11]
Many people believe that the child is being punished and a "bad" spirit of a deceased ancestor has been reincarnated in the child. Hence, a disabled child is a disgrace to the family. In the past these children were often hidden away in back rooms, were never sent to school and received little or no medical care. Attitudes are changing but it is still not uncommon to come upon children, and sometimes even adults, who have been isolated in this way.
[edit] Activities
The foundation (through the assistance of volunteers), provides classes in reading and writing Indonesian, job skills, art and handicrafts (some of which are sold to provide a small income for the handicapped students). Some of the disabled who have received artistic training have later gone on to become accomplished painters, most notably the five artists Wayan Tono, Wayan Damai, Putu Suriati, Ageng Sudin and Holis Sudin.[12]
Senang Hati, with the help of organizations such as the Wheelchair Foundation, has provided wheelchairs to people with disabilities.[13][14] In addition, the foundation provides a physical therapist and a audiometrist who visit and treat patients.[15]
The organization provides housing to more than twenty disabled people who would have difficulty living independently. The center is free for short term housing, but of those who stay at the center long term a small contribution is requested.[16]
In partnership with other organizations, Senang Hati can help provide other forms of assistance when it is required, such as the payment of school fees in conjunction with the Dutch organization Stichting WINS.[17]
[edit] Funding and Operation
Volunteers are a major source of assistance for the foundation, and in particular the center relies upon travelers who are willing to share their time for at least a week. Most of these volunteers are either British or Dutch.[18]
The Senang Hati Foundation relies heavily on donations from both individuals and organizations, such as Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland and the Liliane Fonds.[15] More specific assistance is provided by organizations such as the Wheelchair Foundation and various Rotary Clubs. As well being funded through donations, Senang Hati operates an art gallery and shop at their center in Tampaksiring, Bali, where crafts produced by the disabled are sold.[19]
Other fundraisers include dramatic productions: the 2008 production of Diah Larasati served both to raise funds for the foundation and to disseminate information about the rights of disabled children to attend schools.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c History and Achievements. Senang Hati Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ a b Management and Membership. Senang Hati Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ a b c Sertori, Trisha. "Great capabilities, despite disabilities", The Jakarta Post, December 12, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
- ^ a b Funding and Sponsorship. Senang Hati Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ About Senang Hati. Senang Hati Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ Report for the year 2003. International Communication Service for the Blind, Inc. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ Yayasan Senang Hati - Bali. Stichting Welzijn Projecten Indonesie (August 2007). Retrieved on 2008-03-09. (translated by google)
- ^ Our Vision. Senang Hati Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
- ^ Disability in Bali. Senang Hati Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ Greenspeak. A set of Wheels. Bali Advertiser. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ Senang Hati (Happy Hearts) Foundation. IDEP Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ 5 Artists Exhbition in Ganesha Galary. BaliCalendar.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
- ^ Wheelchairs Project. Rotary Club of Ubud, Bali. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ Bali News: Delivering Hope, Mobility and Freedom. Bali Discovery Tours. Retrieved on 2008-03-08.
- ^ a b Funding and Sponsorship. Senang Hati Foundation. Retrieved on 2008-03-10.
- ^ APA Foundation 2005 REPORT. Aid Projects Asia. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
- ^ Stichting WINS. Weeskinderen Indonesië naar School. Retrieved on 2008-03-06.
- ^ Bali, welfare referral organization. indonesia.blog12.fc2.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-09. (translated by google)
- ^ Community Events. Bali Advertiser. Retrieved on 2008-03-09.
[edit] External links
- Senang Hati Foundation Official website
- Photo Gallery at IDEP site