Senang Hati Foundation

Infobox Non-profit
Non-profit_name = Senang Hati Foundation
Non-profit_
Non-profit_type = Humanitarian Foundation
founded_date = 2003cite web
title=History and Achievements
publisher=Senang Hati Foundation
url=http://www.senanghati.org/history_and_achievements.html
accessdate=2008-03-08]
founder =
location = Bali, Indonesia
origins =
key_people = Putu Suriati,
Founder and Chairpersoncite web
title=Management and Membership
publisher=Senang Hati Foundation
url=http://www.senanghati.org/management_and_membership.html
accessdate=2008-03-08]
area_served =
product =
focus =
method = Skills training, social mainstreaming, materials assistance and housing
revenue =
endowment =
num_volunteers =
num_employees =
num_members = 150+
subsib =
owner =
Non-profit_slogan = "Senang Hati" means "Happy Hearts"
homepage = [http://www.senanghati.org/ www.SenangHati.org]
footnotes = Affiliated with [http://www.kinderpostzegels.nl/en/ de Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland]
and [http://www.lilianefonds.nl/ Liliane Fonds] cite web
title=Funding and Sponsorship
publisher=Senang Hati Foundation
url=http://www.senanghati.org/funding_and_sponsorship.html
accessdate=2008-03-08]

The Senang Hati Foundation, (also known as Yayasan Senang Hati), is a non-profit organization in Bali that assists people living with disabilities. The name "Senang Hati" means "Happy Hearts" in Indonesian. The foundation creates programmes to develop self confidence, physical and economic independence, and increase awareness in the general community of the rights of people with disabilities.cite web
title=About Senang Hati
publisher=Senang Hati Foundation
url=http://www.senanghati.org/
accessdate=2008-03-08] Senang Hati accomplishes this through the assistance of volunteers, by providing skills training, social interaction as well as wheelchairs and housing. The group also runs "Senang Hati Places", a home for disabled children.Report for the year 2003 (2003)]

History

After contracting polio at a young age, Putu Suriati, the founder of the Senang Hati Foundation, lost the use of her legs.Sertori (December 12, 2006)] While house-bound, Suriati was taught to paint by her uncle, and she was able to make a living selling her works to tourists – until the mid-1980's, when competition made painting unprofitable for Suriati. Things changed in 1989, when she was given a wheelchair by Judy Slatum. The wheelchair gave her increased mobility, allowing her to leave her parent's house, and giving her the opportunity to join with other female painters in Bali to form the Seniwati Gallery.Treyvaud (November 18, 2003), p. 17.]

In 2000 Suriati held an exhibition of her work at the Bali Beach Hotel. At this exhibition Suriati met a number of other people people with disabilities, and this led to the development of an informal network with others suffering from disabilities, which encompassed visits, activities and excursions. With Vern Cork's arrival, (an Australian who was similarly confined to a wheelchair), the program was expanded, and grew to the point where they contacted the "Bali Hati Foundation" for assistance.

With the help of the "Bali Hati Foundation", the Senang Hati Foundation was established through a notary as a non-profit organization and, in 2003, the foundation moved into a vacant school through a five-year lease donated by American businessman, Glen Adams.

Aims

As described on their [http://www.senanghati.org/vision.html website] , The "Senang Hati Foundation" aims to:

# Meet with disabled individuals and lift them out of their social isolation.
# Provide technical assistance to achieve physical independence.
# Build confidence in those with disabilities by providing them with a normal social life.
# Build self confidence through assertiveness training.
# Teach skills that will enable members to become self supporting (in particular, skills such as painting, sewing, and woodwork).cite web
title=Yayasan Senang Hati - Bali
publisher=Stichting Welzijn Projecten Indonesie
year=2007
month=August
url=http://www.swpi.nl/portfolio/Yayasan+Senang+Hati+-+Bali
accessdate=2008-03-09( [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.swpi.nl/portfolio/Yayasan%2BSenang%2BHati%2B-%2BBali&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Yayasan%2BSenang%2BHati%2522%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DgQP%26sa%3DG translated by google] )]

A primary function of the center is to seek out disabled people in Bali and provide friendship and assistance, in order to help them to move out of isolation from the wider community and into integration with society.cite web
title = Our Vision
work = Senang Hati Foundation
url = http://www.senanghati.org/vision.html
accessdate = 2008-03-10]

Background

Non-profit organisations such as "Senang Hati" are important in Indonesia as government funding for handicapped people is limited. Without assistance from the private sector many disabled Balinese people, including children, remain marginalized, thus limited from benefitting from or contributting to it. In many parts of Indonesia, and certainly in Hindu Bali, having a disabled child is evidence of bad karma.cite web
url=http://www.senanghati.org/disability_in_bali.html
title=Disability in Bali
publisher=Senang Hati Foundation
accessdate=2008-03-08
last=
first=] cite web
title=A set of Wheels
author=Greenspeak
publisher=Bali Advertiser
url=http://www.baliadvertiser.biz/articles/greenspeak/2003/wheels.html
accessdate=2008-03-08] cite web
title=Senang Hati (Happy Hearts) Foundation
publisher=IDEP Foundation
url=http://www.idepfoundation.org/senang_hati.html
accessdate=2008-03-08]

Many people believe that the child is being punished and a "bad" spirit of a deceased ancestor has been reincarnated in the child. Hence, a disabled child is a disgrace to the family. In the past these children were often hidden away in back rooms, were never sent to school and received little or no medical care. Attitudes are changing but it is still not uncommon to come upon children, and sometimes even adults, who have been isolated in this way.

Activities

[
Tampaksiring, Bali] The foundation (through the assistance of volunteers), provides classes in reading and writing Indonesian, job skills, art and handicrafts (some of which are sold to provide a small income for the handicapped students). Some of the disabled who have received artistic training have later gone on to become accomplished painters, most notably the five artists Wayan Tono, Wayan Damai, Putu Suriati, Ageng Sudin and Holis Sudin. [cite web
title=5 Artists Exhbition in Ganesha Galary
publisher=BaliCalendar.com
url=http://www.balicalendar.com/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&Itemid=37&agid=195&year=2007&month=06&day=04
accessdate=2008-03-09]

"Senang Hati", with the help of organizations such as the Wheelchair Foundation, has provided wheelchairs to people with disabilities.cite web
title=Wheelchairs Project
publisher=Rotary Club of Ubud, Bali
url=http://www.rotaryubud.org/projects/wheelchairs-project.htm
accessdate=2008-03-08] cite web
title=Bali News: Delivering Hope, Mobility and Freedom
publisher=Bali Discovery Tours
url=http://www.balidiscovery.com/messages/message.asp?Id=3367
accessdate=2008-03-08] In addition, the foundation provides a physical therapist and a audiometrist who visit and treat patients.

The organization provides housing to more than twenty disabled people who would have difficulty living independently. The center is free for short term housing, but of those who stay at the center long term a small contribution is requested.cite web
title=APA Foundation 2005 REPORT
publisher=Aid Projects Asia
url=http://www.apa.non-profit.nl/ENGELS/verslag2005E.html
accessdate=2008-03-09]

In partnership with other organizations, "Senang Hati" can help provide other forms of assistance when it is required, such as the payment of school fees in conjunction with the Dutch organization "Stichting WINS".cite web
title=Stichting WINS
publisher=Weeskinderen Indonesië naar School
url=http://www.stichtingwins.nl/Childsponsoring/Tampaksiring/I%20Wayan%20Sukarmen.htm
accessdate=2008-03-06]

Funding and Operation

[
Ubud, Bali. This is "The Wheelchair Dance".] Volunteers are a major source of assistance for the foundation, and in particular the center relies upon travelers who are willing to share their time for at least a week. Most of these volunteers are either British or Dutch. [cite web
title=Bali, welfare referral organization
publisher=indonesia.blog12.fc2.com
url=http://indonesia.blog12.fc2.com/blog-date-20060618.html
accessdate=2008-03-09( [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://indonesia.blog12.fc2.com/blog-date-20060618.html&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Yayasan%2BSenang%2BHati%2522%26start%3D40%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GFRC%26sa%3DN translated by google] )]

The "Senang Hati Foundation" relies heavily on donations from both individuals and organizations, such as " [http://www.kinderpostzegels.nl/en/ Stichting Kinderpostzegels Nederland] " and the " [http://www.lilianefonds.nl/ Liliane Fonds] ".cite web
title = Funding and Sponsorship
work = Senang Hati Foundation
url = http://www.senanghati.org/funding_and_sponsorship.html
accessdate = 2008-03-10] More specific assistance is provided by organizations such as the "Wheelchair Foundation" and various Rotary Clubs. As well being funded through donations, "Senang Hati" operates an art gallery and shop at their center in Tampaksiring, Bali, where crafts produced by the disabled are sold.cite web
title=Community Events
publisher=Bali Advertiser
url=http://www.baliadvertiser.biz/community_events/page07.html
accessdate=2008-03-09]

Other fundraisers include dramatic productions: the 2008 production of "Diah Larasati" served both to raise funds for the foundation and to disseminate information about the rights of disabled children to attend schools.

See also

* Smile Foundation of Bali
* Indonesian Development of Education and Permaculture

Footnotes

References

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External links

* [http://www.SenangHati.org/ Senang Hati Foundation] Official website
* [http://www.idepfoundation.org/photo_handicap.html Photo Gallery] at IDEP site