Overviewof our work in South Asia
The South Asia region is unique in its diversity, being that each country has its own culture, religion, and political and socio-economic structure. The majority of the populations in the region are Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist, and religion is closely integrated into each country’s cultural and social mores. Our mission is to reach out to all people—including the needy and the underprivileged—with a message of love and hope, to promote the importance of the family unit and childhood training, and to offer opportunities for personal growth and development. We believe that if each person were to reach out to others in need, it would inevitably help to make the world a better place.
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Project Highlights
Anti-Drug Programs
| Drug abuse in Thailand especially targets the youth and laborers. Over the last 15 years, the Family has participated in numerous drug-awareness and prevention programs, seminars, concerts, and therapeutic group activities in schools, colleges, rehabilitation and juvenile detention centers, reaching hundreds of thousands. Combining a drug-awareness/anti-narcotic theme with music and drama has proven to be a most effective approach in reaching the youth. We also provide classes and activities that can assist these youngsters in their struggle to integrate back into society and lead productive lives after undergoing rehabilitation.
Livelihood Project
| In Lhoong Pasi, one of many villages on the West Coast of Aceh, which was destroyed in the tsunami of December 2004, Family volunteers have channeled a large gift from a corporate donor in the U.S., to help the people of Aceh by creating, in cooperation with a local Acehnese NGO, a restaurant on the beach not far from the village. Revenues from the restaurant are used in turn to sponsor job training for people from the village. A portion of the land is also being used to grow crops, thus providing some livelihood for three local farming families.
Free health service
| In Pasi, an Indonesian village in Lhoong District, Greater Aceh, the northwest of the island of Sumatra, the people of the village have come to rely on the services of the doctors, nurses, and free medicines that Family volunteers have been able to coordinate and supply. This initiative also includes a program of ongoing health and nutrition education, which is conducted in the district for parents, who also receive nutritional supplements in the course of this instruction.
Child Protection Shelter
| We have worked closely for the past five years with a child protection shelter that is home to 20 children, between the ages of 7 and 17, who have been rescued from abusive situations or sexual exploitation. Through our assistance program we’ve repainted the shelter; set up an IT lab, classroom, and sponsored teacher salaries for daily computer and English classes; launched a weekly art therapy program; and donated two new weaving looms to provide the girls with a variety of vocational training. Thanks to concerned donors, we supply the center with monthly rice and cooking gas.
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Empowering the Hearing Impaired
| The Family’s work with India’s hearing impaired began nearly 20 years ago. Today, we work with over 3,000 deaf youth in 100 cities all over India and conduct weekly personality development programmes for them. The Family has opened Deaf Clubs in 64 cities. These clubs provide deaf youth the opportunity to learn sign language, as well as practical life skills. We provide entrepreneurial skill training, health workshops, pre- and post-marital counseling for the deaf, computer training, job placements, and legal aid. The Family also organizes sports events, quiz competitions, and other cultural events for the hearing impaired.
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NGO assistance
| In Jakarta, Indonesia, FCI––Family Care International––has been involved in supporting and encouraging the work of Himmata, a local NGO run by Mr. and Mrs. Siswandi for over eight years. From its humble beginnings in one of the poorest slums in Jakarta, the program has grown tremendously to include not only a beautiful house for the 60+ street children to call home, but a real school which now offers totally free education to over 700 poor children from the surrounding and adjacent slums. The new school also hosts a beautiful computer room with six of the latest model computers and LCD screens, printer, and Internet connection, all sponsored by a major computer company.
Rural School Assistance
| We’ve been assisting the students at a public primary school in the province of Siem Reap, for the past 4 years. We've been able to build a teacher's room, an IT lab, a lavatory for the students, and a new three-classroom school building. We've sponsored the salary for two English teachers, one computer teacher, and a sports teacher. We’ve organized English camps which hundreds of students participated in.
Tsunami Relief Work
| The tsunami that hit the Southeast Asian region in December 2004, resulted in the worst disaster ever in Thailand’s history. As was witnessed worldwide, in a matter of minutes, an idyllic holiday paradise was thrown into a maelstrom of devastation, death, confusion, grief, loss, and pain of body and spirit. The need for assistance was dire and immediate. Government action was swift, yet the needs seemed to be endless. A two-pronged relief plan enabled a team of Family members to arrive within a day after the disaster hit, while some teams stayed back to collect donated goods for the survivors. Family members served in various ways, from acting as translators, to helping foreigners who were seeking their missing loved ones, to serving as cooks and caregivers. However, perhaps the most important service of all was our role as grief counselors to the traumatized survivors, both adults and children alike.
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Educational Supplies to Needy Schools
| For over 15 years, there has been close cooperation between the Family, members of the business community, and the local education office of many provinces. This very successful endeavor has improved the quality of education for thousands of underprivileged students who have benefited from donated books, audio-visual aids, school supplies, and food. Qualified members also assist in conducting motivational seminars and English camps for the teachers, school staff, and students.
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