NEVER GIVE MONEY TO THEM

You might have seen many street children around. Especially in big cities such as Jakarta. And you feel that you should do something about it.

If you want to help these children build their dreams... to become someone... someday...
NEVER GIVE MONEY TO THEM !! It may sound horrible... but believe me... it is for their own good.

By giving money to these children directly on the streets, or whenever they beg for money... it just means you are helping them to ruin their future... you are only keeping them on the streets.
It is YOU, who keep giving money to them, who will create more and more street children !! These children will continue doing whatever they are doing right now on the streets. Begging, street singing, drugging, then stealing... robbing... and who knows what ...!! Because that is the easiest way to get money from. YOU are providing it to them... YOU are pushing them to the streets...

Are you really helping them ??? NOT AT ALL... In fact, you are so irresponsible !!

So.. how can you help ? How can you contribute ? And how can we make a difference ?

1. You can directly be involved in social activities... or create your own social activity in your neighborhood. Just look closely around you... you will find something to do for the lesser.
2. You can join a social organization as a volunteer, helping the children with their schoolwork, giving some educational activities to motivate them, helping the parents to understand better living skills
3. You can give contribution directly to the children, in the form of school textbooks, story books, educational materials, or educational toys.
4. Never spoil them with "one-shot" gifts, especially things that are way unaffordable to them.
5. Never give money to them!! Give solutions !!

Join ISCO Children Activity Center as our volunteers... Help the children pursue their dreams... Or help create dreams for them... !! Share your dreams with them... !!

Video by : edisonmanik

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Look around you.... with open heart

Estimates of the number of street children in Indonesia vary dramatically. But, surely they are in the tens of thousands and their lives on the streets are surely not easy.
On the streets, they are subject to new threats of abuse and exploitation. Each day the youth run the risk of being hit by cars or motorcycles; being robbed; or even being arrested or jailed. And these happen around us.... probably just around the corner from where we live, we work or we do our activities.

Sometimes we see things just with our eyes... and what do we see ? Things, materials, wealth....
Maybe we should try to see things with our heart.... then we can see : feelings, passion, sadness, hope, and love.....

There are so many ways we can make a difference to this world. Just look around you... with open heart !!

Thank you Kanako Nakajima, for sharing this video to us all.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

ISCO Foundation began helping children in the areas of Kampung Jembatan (Cipinang Besar Selatan/East Jakarta) and Manggarai (South Jakarta), where children were forced to work on the streets, and often dropped out of school because their parents could not afford the fees and other expenses.

ISCO works together with local school authorities and formal and informal community leaders to identify the neediest families, to arrange for the children to attend public school, to support them and their families in many practical ways and to make sure that these children will not become street children or child laborers.

Beginning in 1999 by sponsoring 50 children in two areas of Jakarta, today ISCO operates in 26 slum areas – 17 in Greater Jakarta, 7 in Surabaya area and 2 in Medan. Around 2,000 children are currently sponsored, most of whom are between the ages of 5 and 16 years. ISCO monitors each child educational development progress individually and maintains a close relationship with each family.

ISCO’s particular focus is the children of those families, who face serious obstacles in their struggle to achieve the productive futures that are accepted as normal by most middle class families. ISCO believes that all children deserve the chance to achieve their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens and leaders of Indonesia.
We invite you find out more about our programs, our children’s achievements and how you can help, at our website : //www.iscofoundation.org



Providing free education for vulnerable street children is a proven and effective method of protecting these children rights. The poor, and working children, should not suffer any discrimination in learning opportunities (World Declaration on Education for All, 1990).