ABOUT US — Yayasan Emmanuel

Orphanage Home (PAI)
Our orphanage house in Bogor currently homes 23 children from all over Indonesia, with children from 4 to 18 years of age. The children are not only housed, cared for and fed, but provided the best schooling in Bogor, and given extra-curricular lessons such as drawing, music, sports, computer and English. Drawing on a Jakarta International School model of a holistic education, and sensitive to the Indonesian environment, the orphanage encourages all of its children to reach their full potential in a loving and nurturing home. Our aim is that they may one day become self-reliant adults able to function responsibly and successfully in a complex, difficult and rapidly changing Indonesia.


Baby Home (PAN)
Many babies in Indonesia are sadly abandoned or thrown away by mothers due to social or religious pressures. In response to the need to find a loving home for these babies, a baby home was set up in South Jakarta in July 2002 and was subsequently developed in May 2003 and moved to Bogor in May 2005. We currently care for 11 babies, most of who were received when they were 1-6 days old. YE has also received and cared for deaf and physically handicapped babies. We believe in not only giving the best in facilities and nutritional needs to the babies, but also in providing intimate, one-on-one care and love for the proper development and growth.


Outreach Program (OP)
In January 2001, YE started its Outreach Program for disadvantaged and poverty-stricken children in West Java. Originally the program paid the school costs for 10 children in the greater Bogor area. We have since expanded to include 1,478 children, from Bogor, Jakarta, Tangerang, Bekasi, Sukabumi, Bandung, Serang and Anyer in the Banten Province. Our growing program supports 10 university students in addition to those in Grades 1 through 12. Through full-time field staff and volunteer teachers, YE Outreach Program offers personalized support and weekly monitoring to its children. We found that it is not enough to only pay for school costs, and that most scholarship programs are only doing half the job with regards to a child's education and future. The reason is that although their fees are paid, the child has no foundation to understand school lessons, and he/she often does not go to school (despite paid costs) due to family and health conditions. Our goal is not simply to pay for school fees but to actually provide quality social support. In addition to educational provisions, the program also provides health and nutritional care as well as free weekly tutoring to children in various central locations. By visiting the children on a weekly basis, we not only tutor them, but learn of their needs and provide one-on-one care and attention.


YE COMMUNITY SERVICES:

Health Services, Mobile Clinic (HS)
YE developed a Mobile Clinic Program in June 2003 to combat the horrible conditions of slum locations in Jakarta. The people in these locations are not only surrounded by swamps and hills of trash, but since they do not own property, housing or have any sort of identification cannot obtain any form of health services from the government. Our Health Services team of 2 doctors, 2 nurses, 2 apothecary assistants, and 4 support staff provide free medical check-ups and free medication to slum dwellers in Jakarta. In 3 hours, our doctors and nurses provide health care for nearly 200 patients. Many of the medical problems we find there are related to skin and lung problems, though diarrhea always present.  We cannot solve all their medical needs, but at least our clinic provides health services to hundreds of people who normally would not have access to any professional health care. YE Mobile Clinic provides services daily, and aids on average 4,000 patients per month.


Food Rescue Program (FRP)
Five-star hotels have a policy that all their food must be thrown away at the end of the day (or in some cases given to pig/cattle farms).  Instead of throwing away the food, YE has modeled programs like those in India and New York, to rescue food that otherwise would be wasted or thrown away and deliver it to communities suffering from malnutrition and poverty (i.e. the slum locations that our Mobile Clinic and Water Programs aid). Our Food Rescue Program started in September 2003, and currently collaborates with 8 five-star hotels in Jakarta (Mandarin Oriental, Park Lane, JW Marriott, Grand Hyatt, Shangri La, Century Park, Le Meridien, and Sari Pan Pacific) to provide a meal for approximately 4,000 people every month. We make daily morning rounds to collect prepared and perishable food that would be wasted, and then transport this donated food immediately (within 4 hours) to the poverty-stricken and needy communities. YE places a high priority on guaranteeing food safety in all our operations, requesting strict food safety standards from donors, and maintaining those standards with our refrigerated van pick-up and kitchen staff. YE Food Rescue Program is committed to help provide food for a healthier diet to hungry and malnourished people throughout Jakarta.


Water Program (WP)
YE Water Program was founded in June 2004 to promote sanitation and hygiene, implement more effective community-based solid waste systems, and ultimately increase access to clean water. With a team of 2 Environmental Engineers, a Public Health Promoter, and backed by a strong resource of volunteers, the YE Water Program team leads constructive activities involving improvement of water & sanitation. Projects currently focus on the urban slum communities in Jakarta that our YE Clinic and Food Programs serve; each community sincerely in need of sustainable water & sanitation technologies to address growing environmental problems. Preliminary focus is to promote basic environmental, health & hygiene awareness among slum community members. Next steps entail working with community participants to design and build household water storage and simple treatment systems. YE Water Program is committed to establishing replicable household-scale remedies to progress environmental aid to Indonesia.