Programs we support

In partnership with Yayasan Emmanuel, Yasha has worked to support the following programs:

* Outreach Indonesia:

Founded in January 2001, Outreach Indonesia was originally designed solely to pay the school cost for ten children in a handful of highly impoverished communities in the greater Bogor area. After only a few months, however, the program had expanded into several more communities in western Java. At the same time, the program managers realized that providing financial resources solved only part of the problem, and began to work in a wide variety of support services into the program, including daily tutoring, life skills instruction, health and nutritional care, and english language instruction, all delivered on-site in the communities. Today, Outreach Indonesia works with over two thousand children in over one hundred villages and communities throughout the country.

* Panti Asuhan Nicolas:

Sadly, many infants in Indonesia are abandoned by mothers almost immediately after birth due to social, economic, or religious pressures. In response to this need, Yayasan Emmanuel launched a home for abandoned infants in July 2002. The program has strong linkage and referral arrangements with hospitals throughout Java and Summatra. Most of the infants taken into the home are between six and twelve days old, though in some cases they can be as old as two years. In a number of cases the infant has some mental or physical disability. The home is dedicated to providing intimate, one-on-one care and a loving environment in an environment of childcare specialists skilled in medical and nutritional care for infants.

* Clean Water Program:

Many of the most impoverished slum communities in Indonesia have an abundance of water, but it is often so spoiled by a combination of sewage, rotting garbage, and rodents that it is far too threatening to be useful. The Clean Water Program was founded to apply innovative, inexpensive, and easy to replicate state of the art environmental engineering techniques to provide these communities access to a sustainable source of clean drinking water. In addition to helping communities develop an adequate water supply, the program promotes greater environmental awareness among residents of these communities.

* Food Rescue:

Based on New York's highly innovative City Harvest, the Food Rescue Program collects food from five star hotels in the Jakarta area, al of whom have policies requiring all food to be thrown out by the end of the day, and re-packages and re-distributes it to some of the communities in the greater Jakarta area suffering most acutely from malnutrition and poverty. The food is collected every morning from the hotels, then prepared and transported within four hours of collection, safely and free of charge, to various poverty-stricken and needy communities.

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