Rice, sugar, sweetened condensed milk, noodles...these are some of the foods that will be divided up into smaller sacks and delivered to the children for March. We are feeding 20 of the poorest-of-the-poor in Jakarta. No one else is helping these people. They do not have and cannot afford to get government documentation so they are left out of the government's help programs. Few of the children attend school, many are forced to beg to help out with family expenses while the parents scavenge through the garbage dumps looking for any materials that can be recycled for money. If the parents are fortunate, they might earn $1 a day. The government wants them to return to their home villages, but they would be no better off there. They have no land, no job, and no hope. They ask us for nothing and accept what we offer them.
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