STREET KIDS IN SURABAYA
I want to share what I've got after visiting 3 NGOs working for Street Kid, which maybe useful to you as individual part of our beloved city and also to be shared to our students so they are aware of what is happening around them.
The term’ Street Kid' is not appropriate anymore now according to the agreement between government and NGOs. Instead they are now called as "kid of the country". Yes they are part of our ‘big family ‘. Some claim that it is part of government responsibility to handle the problem but since it is very "complicated" problem, I believe government needs support from others. In Surabaya alone there are about 14 Organizations focusing on the program to improve the live of the poor family or even stop them from going to the street. Yet they still can not solve the problem. One organization claim to have 600 kids under their care, two others claim to have about 200 -250 kids under their care. Apart from what they have done, the number of kids is growing every year. How could this happen?
From the interview with the NGOs, they classify these kids into three categories; kids who spend their whole 24 hours on the street, kids who spend their afternoon and evening on the street, and kids who shows potentials to go to the street.
The initial core problem lies to the economical condition of parents which drive them to send their children to the street to beg or sell newspaper or food hoping that kids can get their own pocket money. Some parents even can not send their children to school because they do not have money. Ironically, those families tend to have more than 2 children. When I ask why this happened, they said honestly that they do not have such an entertainment or things to do in the evening. They do not have the luxury of spending their evening shopping to the malls, reading books or even to watch TV! What else could they do?
The Organizations have approached this from different targets. With parents, some NGO give 0% interest to parents wishing to run their own small business (micro financing). The assumption is if parents can improve their live better, they can send their kid to school and take care of their children better. With kids, NGO runs programs such giving understanding to the kids that being on the street is not good for them for any reasons; there is also a study program where staff come regularly to the certain place where kids can gather and spend their evening studying, reviewing lessons and teaching them basic skills.
Now the problem develop into kids enjoy being on the street. They feel that they have many friends supporting them and of course they can get more money!
The problem is like a circle of Satan. How could we best help these people ?
I want to share what I've got after visiting 3 NGOs working for Street Kid, which maybe useful to you as individual part of our beloved city and also to be shared to our students so they are aware of what is happening around them.
The term’ Street Kid' is not appropriate anymore now according to the agreement between government and NGOs. Instead they are now called as "kid of the country". Yes they are part of our ‘big family ‘. Some claim that it is part of government responsibility to handle the problem but since it is very "complicated" problem, I believe government needs support from others. In Surabaya alone there are about 14 Organizations focusing on the program to improve the live of the poor family or even stop them from going to the street. Yet they still can not solve the problem. One organization claim to have 600 kids under their care, two others claim to have about 200 -250 kids under their care. Apart from what they have done, the number of kids is growing every year. How could this happen?
From the interview with the NGOs, they classify these kids into three categories; kids who spend their whole 24 hours on the street, kids who spend their afternoon and evening on the street, and kids who shows potentials to go to the street.
The initial core problem lies to the economical condition of parents which drive them to send their children to the street to beg or sell newspaper or food hoping that kids can get their own pocket money. Some parents even can not send their children to school because they do not have money. Ironically, those families tend to have more than 2 children. When I ask why this happened, they said honestly that they do not have such an entertainment or things to do in the evening. They do not have the luxury of spending their evening shopping to the malls, reading books or even to watch TV! What else could they do?
The Organizations have approached this from different targets. With parents, some NGO give 0% interest to parents wishing to run their own small business (micro financing). The assumption is if parents can improve their live better, they can send their kid to school and take care of their children better. With kids, NGO runs programs such giving understanding to the kids that being on the street is not good for them for any reasons; there is also a study program where staff come regularly to the certain place where kids can gather and spend their evening studying, reviewing lessons and teaching them basic skills.
Now the problem develop into kids enjoy being on the street. They feel that they have many friends supporting them and of course they can get more money!
The problem is like a circle of Satan. How could we best help these people ?
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