About a week ago I read Balinese Local Newspaper which called Bali Post. It was bloody news about Balinese eleven age girl who was sex abused by her own father. Her father did it about seventh times. But, she decided to hide that terrible deed because she was not braves enough to tell it to others, even her mother. She is getting trauma now and never willing to talk anymore. The newspaper also cited that she is living in Karangasem regency, rural area in Bali and she grows up in uneducated family.
After read that news, I began to think it deeply. I am trying to break down that case to find out the main causes. How could it happen? Definitely, the factor is not only one. It was related to social, education, physical, and also financial problem. But, I do believe that the key is education. It is the basic element to create a better world. Only by providing education we could help them to come out from that horrible thing.
I created my vision then. “I envision a world where children, especially in rural area reach their full potential through education to enable them live in love in peaceful and harmonious world.” In creating this statement, I was inspired by Victor Hugo’s quote, “The man who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Besides, the case above also reminded me with thousands disadvantages children who live in Blandingan village, Kintamani, the remotest area in Bangli district, Bali Province, Indonesia. I met them about 3 (three) months ago. They called themselves The Children of Nature. Most of them could not continue their study, at least they just graduate from elementary school. They do not have any access of information and technology, education, healthcare, even protection. They lack of everything.
Based on the brave conversation with several children there, they told me that, In Blandingan, there is only one elementary school with two till three teachers which come teach just two till three times in a week. Besides, they need to walk about 2 (two) hours to go school. And if they want to enter junior high school, they must go to city and it needs a huge amount of money. Cause of those things, they decide to stop studying.
As a result, they just stay in village, do everything what their parent command, such as help them in the field, looking after their younger sister or brother, and selling something like food door to door. They totally forget to study. And their parents seem never mind about this, because they only think about food. Perhaps, on certain situation, when the family got financial problem, they might be the next victim of parent’s terrible deed.
Actually, children, whose age like ‘white paper’, have their own world. Probably, in their mind, this world is full of beautifulness, sincerity, and they just laughter every day. In creating their future, those children, The Children of Nature, need to get proper education. As elder people, we could not contaminate that ‘paper’ with something bad. We have to protect them; we have to give back their own world.
What should we do then? I think the simple and doable thing that we can do is find out young teacher that willing to be volunteer to teach in a nice way which hopefully could motivated, inspired, strengthen, and also increase children’s confidence. For three till six months, those young teachers will stay in that rural area.
As the first step, we will hold teacher training, cooperate with some foundation or NGO like Karuna Bali Foundation and also institution such as IKIP PGRI BALI (university for student who willing to be teacher). As sustainability of this idea, we will try to engage others people to do charity; it could be scholarship, stationary, food, etc. Then, hopefully, we could bring some children to junior, senior, even university.
If most of children in this world, particularly, who live in rural area get proper education, I do believe that they able to create a better future. They will start to open their mind; they will know whether something right or wrong; they will able to protect themselves; even they will understand how to solve any problem in this world. In addition, this kind of action also could increase youth solidarity and awareness to sharing with each other.
What we do just all about love. We hope that the children and all God’s creation could live in love in peaceful and harmonious world. Do not let that eleven age girl’s case, happen to other children. Act now together for children. By doing simple thing, we make a great change for the betterment of life. Yes, we can.
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