“. . . Jane Goodall has $1500 to send. . . .” The sentence in one email from Mary Lewis, the assistance of Jane Goodall, to my wife Meidy aroused the remembrance of my feeling seeing the awakened patients of mine from prolonged deep coma caused by cerebral malaria in Papua. Finally I found the…
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Giving money to charities and volunteering are not common practice in the eastern societies. If people do them, these acts are usually related to their formal religious practice. Many rich Indonesians–some of them on the the Forbes billionaire list–seem confused what to do with their abundant money. The most likely their churches are the receivers…
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Besides the Green School (GS) community, two teachers and one librarian of the Dyatmika School also attended the presentation on the Jane Goodall Institute and its Roots&Shoots program by Alicia Kennedy on December 22, 2012. The Dyatmika team participated in the discussion on our foundation too. The result is very encouraging: the Dyatmika School (DS)…
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Jerry Lloyd Jerry and I joined Green School at the same time three years ago. He and Lee Wood—already left—are the people I like most since the beginning. He is an excellent teacher, especially in reading and math teaching. His impressive skill is behavior management; no matter how difficult the children are, they will behave…
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Mairead Furlong During the Earth Day celebration at the school, grade one set up a table for our foundation. We sold tarsier T-shirts and asked for direct donations by putting a glass jar on the table. Although a lot of people attended the celebration, only a few stopped by our table, mainly for buying T-shirts….
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Owen Orion Husband-Meyer In the second to last week of the school year, Owen (grade 2B) and his mother Rebecca Husband came to the clinic. Parents, by themselves or with their children, visiting me was not unusual. They asked for consultation for not only their children, but for themselves, even for their guests and employees,…
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