I just want to share the activities what our orphanage has been doing in Timor recently.
Peggy (my wife) came home yesterday for a break before leaving for Timor again in a week time.
I will leave Singapore on the 25th morning and will be there with her and my daughters for 3 weeks.
There will be 9 friends will be joining , some for 5 days and even for a month.
The famine was really bad and so many sad stories to tell.
This time the draught is the worst.
There have been hundreds of children died and many more are still suffering from the hunger.
The orphanage has been doing our best for the last 3 months but having rahter limited capabilities to do more.
At least twice a week Peggy brought some food with some of our orphanage members to different villages.
We are using 2 pick up cars to do it.
We have been giving away rice, instant noodles,green beans, sugar, salt with yodium , biscuits, milk powder for the babies of age up to 2 years and vitamins as well as the Malaria tablets and askaris tablets.
The packages were made into one or two kilo gram sizes and we gave away according to size of the families members.
The next visit besides our original Literacy projrect we will distributes help mainly just for the children of 5 years and below as we are not capable to help out the adults any more.
We will be giving away a made green beans soup, and boiled eggs twice a week for the same location
An egg cost about 600 rupiah each in Kupang city ( about 12 Singapore Cents each and will be come almost double when it is close to the year end).
We has been reaching 343 children below 5 years old were being helped so far ( in 16 different villages/ dusun between one two 2 hours range from the orphanage's location).
For one kg of green beans we can make into soup for 20 children ( 20 KG of green beans on each trip) and we will cook it at the village's head homes( we will need some other spices for this soup namely palm sugar,pandan leaves, thin coconut milk).
For each visit we are bringing about 400 boiled eggs ( boiled at the orphanage's location).
We might be able to make porridge too some times.
A very funny or sad thing can be seen when give boiled egg to the children directly. The mother took the egg and will help the children to peel it but the children thought that the mother will eat the egg for her self , so the children will be crying so badly ( miss understanding by the child).
4 days ago Peggy was very sad when she found out about a boy who she was supposed to pick up died.
This boy was suffering from the hunger , Peggy has been working hard for that day and the news about this boy was coming rather late in the evening (so Peggy decided to pick up the boy first thing in the morning).
The very next morning Peggy found out that she was attending a wake rather than pick up this boy .
The boy died because of he could not take the hunger any longer few hours before Peggy came .
Before he died when he was vomiting the are white worms came out .
So not only because of the hunger but it was also because of lagging in sanitation( no water).
From the same village we will have 3 more children to join the orphanage and live with us .
There are so many more suffering children in many different villages in Timor area right now.
For each trip we are spending about 150 SGD for 300 children below 5 years old and we are not giving food for the older one.
We are doing it at least twice a week and it means 8 times per week.
So for 300 children we will need some 1,200 SGD per month and it means about 14,400 SGD per year.
I will cover all the operation costs like the car maintenance, fuel and driver and other labors and coordinating with the villagers .
We wish that we can do this program for at least 3 years that is to really help their nutrition
Have a blessed day to All.
Budi and family
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Topic: Literacy Project in Kupang
