Thirteen thousand six hundred and seventy-seven islands
Anyone who ends up on one of Indonesia’s islands may, like Robinson Crusoe, have to wait a long time for their Man Friday; 6000 islands of the largest island state in the world are uninhabited.
Disasters
Indonesia has been afflicted by devastating catastrophes in recent times. The seaquake in the Indian Ocean on 26th December 2004 alone cost around 177 000 Indonesians their lives. A few days after the tsunami, AVC was there finding out what possibilities there were to help and taking first emergency measures. Since then AVC has been working in Indonesia in a whole variety of ways.
Current aid projects
Helping people help themselves
AVC carries out projects such as building houses and constructing fishing boats, and they support people who are unable to help themselves.
- Reconstruction
- A new roof over their heads
- Basis for earning a living
Hope for children – out of the dirt, misery and neglect
Children’s homes
AVC has opened two children's homes in Medan. 48 children who lost one or both parents to the tsunami have been taken in here. The children arrived traumatized four years ago; today they are happy and well-adjusted. With God’s help, much inner healing has taken place. Some of the young people are now in professional training.
Life on Nias Island is almost unbearable even for adults – for orphans it is simply hopeless. AVC supports a pastor who has taken in 26 children, saving them from starvation. For the children, that means more than just surviving: they get the chance to go to school and, through the good news of Jesus, they are being given an “earthquake-proof” foundation.
Kindergartens
On Java, AVC supports Christian-run kindergartens.
- Hope for children – out of the dirt, misery and neglect
