Friends International is an NGO that focuses on children’s empowerment in South East Asia and provides social services to marginalized urban children and families. They focus on several issues including child migration and child refugees, family separation, and more. FI runs the ChildSafe International initiative which combines advocacy and training to spread awareness about risks that marginalized children face, including campaigns to promote ethical volunteerism and tourism linked to children in orphanages.
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Jl. Tebet Timur I No. 4 Kelurahan Tebet Timur, Kecamatan Tebet Jakarta Selatan
Jakarta 12820
Indonesia
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What They Do
Teman Baik (“Good Friends” in Indonesian) offers a holistic street-based program aimed at ensuring children, youth and their families are able to claim their rights to well-being and self-development. Working in seven cities zones, on the streets and in communities both during the day and at night, Teman Baik protected and empowered over 3,494 marginalized young people and caregivers in 2017.
A comprehensive street outreach program, Teman Baik focuses on providing immediate support to marginalized children and families, with particular regard to increasing economic self-sufficiency. To achieve this, the program supports caregivers and youth to obtain skills and to generate stable income through micro-enterprise development and job placement. This support is linked with comprehensive social work to ensure that young children are supported to go to school.
Teman Baik implements ChildSafe Agent training and local campaigning in Jakarta, as well as the ChildSafe Travelers campaign with partners in Bali. Through collaboration with local hotlines, the program’s rapid response team provide assistance to reports of children in distress and in 2017 directly protected 514 children as a result.