LIFE HOUSE KIDS BALI - THE ORPHANAGE

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Location:	Djimbaran, Bali, Indonesia
Category:	Education
Published:	04 September 2008
Progress:	100% funded
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Every child has come from a very bad situation but due to good health, education, loving parents and a good family environment, all our kids (13 right now) are very happy and really going forward in life.

The vision:
To be a place which is full of love and life.
To be a place which provides housing, education and health care to orphans, the abandoned, rejected and lost children of all faith.
To be a place which helps and empowers children to become independent, responsible and successful citizens who will change and bless their own people, nation and beyond.

The future:
The orphanage home is a rented house and the lease is for two more years. We do own 3000m3 of land and I am currently in the stage of setting our big fundraiser for next year 2009 to build a new home for our children. It would be a much bigger place that could take up to 50 kid, have our own community hall, class rooms for teaching and a sports field.

How the fundraising will work:
We are putting together 600 packs, and in a pack there will be a t-shirt, hat, stickers and a calendar of all our children for 2009. We are hoping to send these packs all over the world to people that would like to get behind the fundraiser. By receiving a pack you would be committing to raising $1000 during the year of 2009 to help with the building project. with 600 packs going out we will raise $600 000 to build our new home.

by B. Little, created on 29 December 2009 at 08:34 AM

Helo Everybody,

this time I want to tell you a little bit about an event, we had last month...

BEACH CLEAN UP – Last month we had been teaching the children about how to care for their environment, especially how to deal with rubbish. We decided we needed to start this environmental care at home. We explained to them about different kinds of rubbish and how to handle it. As you may know, there are many beaches in Bali contaminated with all kinds of plastic rubbish; people don’t have much awareness about their environment. So we took the children to one of the beaches around our area and we cleaned up the beach by picking the organic and non-organic rubbish. We brought the rubbish home and gave away the recyclable rubbish to the rubbish collector next door and the organic stuff we used for compost to fertilise our farm. We had fun that morning, picking up rubbish, having a picnic but due to bad weather the waves were too big for us to swim. The children were a little disappointed but as it was for our own safety we decided to go home. After walking up lots of stairs, we rested a bit and a couple of westerners came up to us and asked what we’re doing and why. When we explained it, they were so amazed at what we were doing and really thanked us. Then they went on to say that they own a hotel on the beach and in all their time running the hotel they have never seen any one come and clean the beach. The owner then invited us to swim and have some snacks in his hotel. The children were screaming happily and kept saying, “This is amazing, swimming in the pool is sooo much better than facing the big waves on the beach and we can wash ourselves from all the sand”. When we’re heading back home, the lady who owns the hotel told us, anytime you clean the beach here…please let me know and you are most welcome to hang out around my hotel for snacks and swimming.”