Archive for 2013-07-21
KABASA, All in Love, Pluralism, and Tolerance
KABASA is
the valuable community. I am writing here to tell you honestly about my
activities and the incredible moments of KABASA. KABASA is the Street Children
Community that built with the love and hopes for betterment. They are totally
more than 100 children that come and learn here as the secondary place of
shelter and loving care.
There are
two kinds of children here. They are treatment and non-treatment children. The treatment
children are those who have been under treatment of basic education such as the
philosophy of life, sense of religion of Islam, ethics of human being, and
tolerance. They live in a house that we call it as KABASA or Mede (The name was
taken from the location of this community). They are slowly leaving the street
for begging or asking for money. They are settle and ready to be a new person
of betterment. They start creating some good songs and other arts to be
published as the form of creativity and freedom. Furthermore, those who are
potentially good will be sent to one of the formal schools in Bekasi. This cycle
runs constantly without prejudicing in one or more things.
Non-treatment
children are those who haven’t treated yet. This means that they are still
living on the street and asking for money, but they come to Mede sometimes to
eat, learn, or share many things. They are not settle yet to leave street and
live in Mede. They sometimes come to meet their friends who have been living in
Mede. They still want to live with their friends on street outside to earn the
money by singing some songs.
Both
treatment and non-treatment children have the high motivation to learn and
share. They get the lesson on how to share in limitation because they always
have something that are not really much. They learn the lesson on how to love
one another as the unit of family in any condition and situation. They learn
the lesson on how to thank God as the prevalence of blessing on them. They learn
to respect differences in terms of backgrounds and religions because they come
from different place, individual, skin color, behavior, and character.
My teaching
English here is to bridge them to the international language that automatically
builds their sense of respect and tolerance among all humans in the world. We mingle
together, ask and answer together, learn and write together, listen and repeat
together, exploring new culture in each topic together that reflected the
successful of tolerating and respecting one another. I never stop this positive
movement because my neighborhood needs to know and understand that tolerance
and respecting one another are two things which should be exist in all parts of
life. You should not condemn Bekasi as intolerance city just because you heard
it on media that are prone to the limited shoot of fact. In the end, you should
appreciate my project continuously to aware more people that we, people of
Bekasi, still have the chance of betterment to be tolerance city that respects
differences in life.
