Nutrition For My Friends

1,924 Marginal Children in Greater Jakarta
& 500 Children in Merapi Camps

NUTRITION FOR MY FRIENDS (NUS) is Sahabat Anak’s program held in 2010. The program was launched on January 25, 2010 in conjunction with National Nutrition Day. NUS promotes nutrition for Indonesian children, especially marginal children (street children, scavengers, poor families and communities) that has become the focus of our service.

The program touched one of United Nations’ focus areas of children’s rights declared in 1989: “the right of healthy food”. We promote three main messages in the campaign: 1) nutrition is important for a child’s development; 2) every child has the right for healthy food, including marginal children; 3) healthy food is not always expensive.

We are grateful for public support towards NUS program. In the course of one year, we received funding support of IDR sixty four million from individuals, groups and institutions/companies. We also received additional thirty five million surplus funds from the Sahabat Anak Jamboree, our main event of the campaign. This year’s Sahabat Anak Jamboree brought the theme: “Healthy Food Shouldn’t be Expensive”.

Nutrition for Our Friends was distributed to 1,924 marginal children in 19 urban areas in the Greater Jakarta area. Although we were short from the target to reach 3,000 children, the program echoed to the public through media coverage (print, television, radio, internet), pamphlets, press release, email, websites, facebook and twitter campaign by Sahabat Anak.

A special note was nutrition distribution to 500 children displaced by the Merapi volcano eruption in two camps in Muntilan. Our motivation was to fulfill the rights of healthy food for children in the minimum condition in the camps.

Thank you for the participation of the NUS team, Sahabat Anak public relations, volunteers, partners, donors, media and all the people that supported the program.

For better Indonesia.

-Simsim-

Coordinator, NUS Team 2010