Sri Lanka Tour - August 2012
During this tour, there will be an opening event at Mahiyanganaya for a Noémie Raballand building.
General Meeting of Kasih Bunda France
The next general meeting of our organization will be in La Buisse, on March 24th, 2012.
Kasih Bunda France picnic
Our picnic party will be hold in La Buisse on July 1st, 2012.
Such a beautiful story
Of how 48 children were all adopted in one day in April 1984 by Jane TUMEWU!
In the eighties, Jane Tumewu and her husband Maynard decided to help the poor abandoned children in the streets of Jakarta. They created a foundation officially approved by the Indonesian Social Services on January 6th, 1982 called YAYASAN BINA SEJAHTERA and an orphanage called Loka Kasih (the house of love).
Jane, who is of Dutch descent on her mother’s side, was contacted by doctors from Holland who eventually adopted these children. Relationships were established with these doctors and supporting associations were created around the world i.e. in Holland (KASIH BUNDA HOLLAND), in Germany (KASIH BUNDA GERMANY), in Switzerland (KASIH BUNDA SWITZERLAND) and finally in France on May 7, 1984.
In 1984, when the Indonesian authorities suddenly decided to close the door on international adoption, 48 children were in the Jakarta orphanage (The Home) waiting for adoption.
With the closing down of international adoptions, the Home no longer had any financial support. Jane and Maynard Tumewu then decided to adopt all the children so they would not be forced to return to the streets.
When Jane died from cancer on September 20th, 1994 at the age of 66 years old, one of her son, Ronald, and her daughter-in-law Sally decided to continue this work.
Today, there are still some twenty of these children living in the Home of Jakarta. In addition to the home, there is now a garage which provides employment and also a “Guest House”. The Guest House provides housing for the European parents who have adopted children from Indonesia to return with their adopted children to “explore their roots and heritage”. There are over 800 adopted children from Indonesia in Europe of which more than 60 are in France.
Since 1984, the various Kasih Bunda associations from Holland, Switzerland and France have assisted The Home financially with their operating costs and the capital cost of outfitting the Guest House rooms as well as the cost of a mechanical training centre.
This is truly a special story and the name Kasih Bunda aptly illustrates what it means: mother love.