A home
Fragmentary Algemeen Indisch Dagblad item 'Een tehuis' (1955-06-02, p. 2): proposal for a children's home with expert carers for neglected children of working or ill parents. The plan arose at a meeting of main women's organisations, including Perwari, Budi Isteri and Gerwani, in Bandung; a founding committee formed on 29 April 1952 and became a foundation with Rp. 6,800 start capital.
Butir fragmen Algemeen Indisch Dagblad 'Sebuah rumah' (2-6-1955, hlm. 2): usul rumah anak dengan pengasuh ahli bagi anak telantar dari orang tua yang bekerja atau sakit. Rencana muncul dalam pertemuan organisasi perempuan utama, termasuk Perwari, Budi Isteri dan Gerwani, di Bandung; panitia pendiri dibentuk 29 April 1952 dan menjadi yayasan bermodal Rp 6.800.
“The plan was put forward at a meeting of women's organisations 'such as Perwari, Budi Isteri, Gerwani and many others' (p. 2).”
Short Algemeen Indisch Dagblad notice (1952-06-12, p. 2) that a baby-care committee, Taman Baji Sehat, has been set up in (apparently Bandung) by women's associations including Parkiwa, Perwari, Gerwis and Persatuan Wanita Kristen, to open a crèche for babies of mothers who have died, are ill or work.
shared: Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia, Budi Isteri, kindergartens (TK Melati)
Algemeen Indisch Dagblad 'Bandung in short' column (1957-10-19, p. 2) of local news. Relevant: Gerwani, which now has fifteen kindergartens across West Java, has begun a one-month emergency course to train teaching staff, with theory taught by Miss Sri Sulistiewaty of IPPI. Other items cover rice distribution, a Red Cr
shared: Budi Isteri, Bandung, kindergartens (TK Melati)
Abadi, 1 Mar 1952, p. 2: Palembang women's organisations form a committee for International Women's Day chaired by Rochani Mailan of Gerwis; also reports of Krawang mothers selling children for rice.
shared: Women's Union of the Republic of Indonesia, Bandung, child welfare
Fifth issue of Api Kartini (1959). Cover profile of WIDF president Eugenie Cotton; Umi Sardjono cited on 235 Gerwani TK Melati kindergartens in Java; also Sumpah Pemuda editorial, ethnography of the Tengger, recipes and child-health advice.
shared: child welfare, kindergartens (TK Melati)
1957 'Letter to an Unknown Friend' by Sudjinah (Gerwani) on Indonesian children's conditions, framed by colonial history, Japanese occupation and the Round Table agreement. Gives statistics (15-20% infant mortality, one doctor per 59,000, illiteracy 65%, 5 of 12 million children in school) and notes Gerwani, with the I
shared: child welfare, kindergartens (TK Melati)
1963 WIDF bulletin article 'The Need for Social Services in Indonesia': the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerwani) and others push kindergartens. It reports a first National Seminar on kindergartens in 1959, teacher courses in 1961-62, the aim of one kindergarten per street, over 700 kindergartens (first started in 1951
shared: child welfare, kindergartens (TK Melati)
Historia.id article (preview only) titled 'Gerwani dan Hak Anak'; the free preview covers only the New Order's National Children's Day (1984) and Decade of the Child (1986), not Gerwani. Little usable content.
shared: child welfare, kindergartens (TK Melati)
Neues Deutschland, 29 March 1952, p. 2: report 'Großberliner Schülerkonferenz' on a Berlin schoolchildren's conference organised by the German Society for the Protection of Children, with WIDF representatives present. The Indonesian kindergarten teacher Darmini, with Jeanette Turner of the USA, described the catastroph
shared: child welfare, kindergartens (TK Melati)