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Blog EntrySep 2, '07 12:34 PM
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Hello all,

Please visit my Pbase page for more pictures: http://www.pbase.com/titik_dua/senang_hati

It has been quite a while now that I had time and energy to work on my photos, and I sure miss it. So, I have been taking up this new passion for diffable people (formerly termed as disable people), especially in Indonesia and am trying to document diffability in Indonesia, their life, their interaction with community, issues around their rights etc.

I had started this ongoing work with visiting Yayasan Senang Hati, house of about 30 persons with disability, located in Tampak Siring, Gianyar Bali. It is a relative well maintained and clean center, much better than several other places I had visited before. What interesting about Senang Hati is that it is run and managed also by persons with disability. Personally, this is only make sense since if you are not disable, I believe no matter how hard you try, you will never really understand how they life is. I wouldn't.

When I was there, unfortunately it was around the Nyepi Festival and so many of them went home to spend time with their family, so I was able to take photo of whoever there. That was really fine with me. There are many activities in Senang Hati. They have physiotherapy, work skill such as sewing, and most notable is their love for art. There are painters, wavers, necklace makers etc in Senange Hati.


 
You can view their art in the art galerie connected to the center
 
 
Recently, during my last visit to Indonesia, I was lucky to be able to see a theater performance by our friends from Senang Hati in Ubud. It was amazing for me to see how talented they are. Even from their wheel chairs, they could perform such a great performance.
 
  
 
Their outdoor activity include swimming day, a very fun day when I happened to be in Bali as well. They were invited by a friend and supporter of theirs to use her swimming pool. It was one fine day.
 
  
 
Yayasan Senang Hati is continuously looking for volunteer and donor to help and support them. Currently especially they are looking for someone to teach them English, but also to assist them with other thing. So if you or anybody you know are interested in volunteering with Senang Hati, please contact them at: senanghati@yahoo.com
 
My friendship with Senang Hati is established through friends at Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO), an NGO working by providing volunteers to developing countries. VSO has two volunteers right now assisting Senang Hati with their accounting and their day-to-day activities at the center. Thus, you could also contact VSO; http://www.vso.org.uk
 
I have dedicated a folder in my pbase for Yayasan Senang Hati, so please do visit if you want to see more pictures. I will also appreciate if you could leave any comment and feedback.
 
Thank you all for reading,
 
peace
/ansye
 
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yennypierre wrote on Sep 2, '07
...I believe no matter how hard you try, you will never really understand how their life is.

Hi Ansye, I am touched by your kind heart to be a friend of diffable (a new word for me) people in Indonesia. Honestly, having one brother handycape at home (who is taken care by my mother, in Indonesia) force me to think, sometimes, that I have enought problem (although I don't do much but to think about my taught mother since now I am far away from home).
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usi1151 wrote on Sep 2, '07
Yenny, thanks. I think it is really tricky situation. I am just learning myself. I hope that through my photos, there will be more awareness about their issues...from us (their friends and relatives) and from community
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alyntfernandes wrote on Nov 17, '07
great to know this.
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santiude wrote on Dec 1, '08
Two thumbs up for Yayasan Senang hati. I visited them with the participants of Third Country training Program on 3rd week of November 2008.
They keep creative within their disability, although the government only gives them a little bit allowance for their living, but they keep their existence.
AMazing!
When I visited Yayasan Senang Hati, there are also 2 volunteer from VSO.
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