Don't set your hopes on rice alone,
But plant some sago around.
Don't set your hopes on your dream alone,
For when the morning comes, where will your dream be found?
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Season's greetings of Ary
25 December 2003 »
Kepada para Donatur dan semua yang telah membantu
Yayasan Burung Manyar
Selamat Natal dan Tahun Baru
Karena kasih Anda yang begitu besar, saya bisa
merayakan Natal tahun ini dan menyambut datangnya
tahun baru
Salam
Ary dan keluarga
translation:
To everybody who is donating and helping the BURUNG MANYAR Foundation
My best wishes for Christmas and a happy New Year
Because of your generosity I'll be able to keep Christmas and to enter the new year
Love from
Ary and family
Season's greetings of Ibu Sri Sulastri
24 December 2003 »
Kami sekeluarga mengucapkan selamat
Hari Natal 2003 dan Tahun Baru 2004
Kiranya Tuhan selalu menyertai Anda
Salam dari
D. Widodo, Veronica Sri Sulastri, Victor dan Jordan
translation:
Our family wishes you a Happy Christmas 2003 and a good New Year 2004
We hope that God will be always on your side
Many greetings from
D. Widodo, Veronica Sri Sulastri, Victor and Jordan
Aim
23 September 2003 »
The country our Foundation is focused on, is Indonesia. The people for whom our Foundation works, are Indonesian people. They are kidney-patients in general for whom the Foundation BURUNG MANYAR exists, and patients with a donor kidney in particular.
What does the Foundation do?
a) the Foundation supervises a financial fund, from which immunosuppressive means are paid for patients in Indonesia with a donor kidney. To put it more simply: a lifelong medication is necessary to prevent rejection of the kidney. If not, it means returning to dialyses or worse is inevitable. There are no health insurances, or bad ones. An average teacher over there, earns 7 million Rupiah a year and will need 12 million a year only for medication. It’s a simple calculation.
b) the Foundation also tries to assist the patients with the reintegration and rehabilitation by means of correspondence and helps to find or create suitable employment.
c) the Foundation is also starting to become a centre for the collection of remnant medicine of individuals and academic hospitals, which are subsequently taken to Indonesia.
d) the Foundation is organizing a cooperation between the AMC hospital in Amsterdam and various Dutch nephritic institutions, the Medical Faculty of Universitas Gajah Mada Yogyakarta and the University hospital Dr. Sardjito.
e) at the moment the Foundation gathers material to create a nephritic patients' society/ helpdesk/service center, which, at first, will have to operate through our website, but later on, has to be rooted in the Indonesian medical circuit. Leaflets will be printed with information on diet meals, early self-diagnosis, knowledge of medicine and their side-effects, preventive measures etc. Hopefully the patients who are now receiving support from the Foundation, will be able to participate in the organization.
f) the first reconnaissance has been made to supply micro-credit to patients to pay for their transplant. Most of the time the families are already totally bankrupt by the demolishing and money devouring period of dialysis, so that the money for an operation has to be borrowed. This leads up to loans with usurious interest, which often have to be paid from new loans upon the old ones.
Their last property, usually a small piece of land, a small house of their own, becomes a guarantee. So a private home is no longer a security. A strangling spiral.
The consequences
It is essentialfor us to expand our fund, for the responsibility taken to start helping a patient, requires a lifelong-term investment. It can't be shorter than this.
Besides, in the meantime, two more new requests for help are on our waiting list. Our Foundation can only help if you help us.
We hope for your respons after having read this information on our website.
If you would like to have additional information about our Foundation or if you have important questions to ask, do not hesitate to contact us. You will receive an immediate response.
Our giro account is: 834.78.58. Stichting BURUNG MANYAR
Board, advisers and intermediates
23 September 2003 »
Jan van Daal, chairman
Teacher at an International School of pupils from over twenty countries.
"Next to development the aid of authorities, especially aimed at large populations, I mainly see help on a small scale by private organizations as a possibility to provide help flexibly, effectively and quickly to those who need it."
Jef Schaap, secretaris/penningmeester
Teacher at the upper levels of a large comprehensive school for secondary education.
"I have many contacts in Indonesia and I speak the language. Of course I see the need of structural help but it should not interfere with direct help to individual nephritic patients. I enjoy being active in both fields. Apart from providing material help, it is also of the utmost importance to offer assistance at social reintegration and finding one's self-esteem again."
Els Standaert, projectmedewerkster
Gepensioneerd medisch secretaresse, vroeger verbonden aan het VU medisch centrum in Amsterdam.
"Ik vind het fijn me vanuit een bevoorrechte positie, te weten in goede gezondheid en met voldoende middelen om in mijn eigen onderhoud te voorzien, in te zetten voor mensen voor wie hulp van levensbelang is. Ik ben blij dat de Stichting me daarvoor de gelegenheid biedt."
Advisors
The Foundation Burung Manyar can expect medical and organizational support from many individuals and organizations.
The past has proved so. A number of persons are attached to our organization as official advisors to the board. They are:
Dr. Suyanto Surachno, nephrologist, head of the kidney department of the AMC, Amsterdam.
Ibu Lestari Prajasuta
Ibu Lestari is the founder and leader of the Yayasan Penyantun Manusia Penderita "Aulia", Yogyakarta. This foundation manages a number of shelters for parentless, unfortunate, homeless and roaming city-children.
Bapak Eddy Hidajat
He is the immediate assistant to Ibu Lestari, but for a department of the Yayasan Aulia in Jakarta.
Prof. Dr. Moch. Sja’bani
Dr. Sja'bani is a nephrologist, head of the transplant team and kidney department of the RSUP Hospital Dr. Sardjito and a Professor at the University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta
Intermediaries
According to our vision it is necessary to have intermediaries in Indonesia to maintain contact with our Foundation.
If there are difficulties of any kind, it should be a pleasant convenience for our patients to have someone nearby, they can rely on. So far these persons have been:
Sister Mijnardien CB
She is a missionary from the Congregation of Sisters of Charity of Saint Charles of Borromeo from Maastricht, the Netherlands and she lives in the convent of Saint Anna for sisters in retirement in Yogyakarta.
Father Paulus Mujiran FIC
Father Paulus is director of the social- medical foundation Yaysan Sosial Soegijjapranata, belonging to the Archbishopric of Semarang. The archbishopric originates from Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Burung Manyar: the name of the foundation
15 September 2003 »
The name of the Foundation BURUNG MANYAR, is taken from the title of one of the books by the Indonesian priest, architect, social worker, philosopher and author Y.B. Mangunwijaya, Burung-burung manyar. Through his office our first kidney patient came into contact with us.
It is the Indonesian name of the weaverbird, a species of birds of which the male builds an ingenious nest for its spouse, that offers optimal security and safety. The social work of Mangunwijaya for the poorest of the poor in Yogyakarta and that of our Foundation aim at the same goal: to create a subsistence minimum security on which people can found their self-confidence and their sense of self-esteem.
Still a lot has to happen to reach our target and therefore Ary and the others will be very pleased with help of any kind from anybody although of course financial help is necessary for the weaverbird to build its extremely complicated nest, so that its existence will have a foundation of security and safety.
Registrations
14 September 2003 »
The BURUNG MANYAR Foundation was founded on 27 December, 2000 by notorial memorandum of association at Zaltbommel, the Netherlands. Change of Articles on 15 April, 2002.
The foundation has been registered with the Chamber of Commerce Rivierenland, Tiel, the Netherlands, registration number 11049619.
The foundation is a charitable institution by satisfying the conditions as noted in clause 24, paragraph 4 of the Act of Succession 1956, therefore financial help is income-tax deductible.
In this sense the Foundation has been registered from February 2001 with the Inland Revenue for Concern at 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.