Karina is a three-year-old girl who has lost her mother and brother to HIV. Karina’s father is a gentle spirit, also suffering from HIV: now, they only have each other. The family moved to Jakarta from their village to earn a living. Karina and her father are living in a car park during the day […]
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Sneak Preview: LITTLE STARS
Value Every LIfe is the first film in the Little Stars series that seeks to give voice to the need for children’s palliative care. It aims to ensure that every child living with life-limiting illness has access to palliative care, thereby relieving their suffering and that of their families. “We have the knowledge, the skills, […]
Dignity at the end by Tay Hsu Chern
An account of Palliative Care for Children project conducted by specialist volunteers from Singapore (organised by Singapore International Foundation) in Jakarta, Indonesia Training conducted by specialist volunteers from Singapore helped nurse Rina Wahyuni gain confidence in promoting palliative care for terminally ill children. Despite not knowing much about caring for terminally ill children, former paediatric […]
Miki’s story
There are many stories that are left untold in the daily travels of Rachel House’s nurses – stories tucked deep in their hearts that speak of great devastation. This is a story of a little boy’s brave journey. Miki was 6 months old when problems began. It started initially with a simple cough… that never […]
2012 – A year in Review
This has been a year of consolidation and a year of celebration. 2012 began with a new challenge as the team prepared itself for a change of leadership. This time, instead of looking externally the Board decided to promote someone who has been with Rachel House for 4 years. The entire team rose to the […]
Ultimate wish: To die peacefully at home, free from pain & surrounded by loved ones
More palliative nurses as population greys by Ashley Chia Dec 11, 2012 (TODAYonline) SINGAPORE – The number of nurses trained to look after terminally ill patients rose in recent years as palliative care is increasingly integrated into mainstream care.Across the public healthcare sector, there are currently 337 nurses trained in palliative care – a 31-per-cent […]
Ashoka Fellowship for Rachel House
(Ashoka Newsletter December 3, 2012) Rachel House staff nurse provides home care to patients in Jakarta SINGAPORE – Lynna Chandra of Medan, Indonesia, has been selected by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public as a member of its global fellowship of leading social entrepreneurs. Lynna Chandra is changing the way children with terminal illnesses are treated […]
Singapore’s President Tony Tan visited Rachel House on 29th November 2012
Working together to care for terminally-ill kids President Tan meets volunteers, staff at Jakarta hospital Published on Nov 30, 2012 Flanked by his mother, a patient in the SIF Palliative Care Project at Dharmais Cancer Hospital welcomes Dr Tan and his wife Mrs Mary Tan, Ms Lynna Chandra (right) and SIF executive director Jean Tan […]
Dying well – a basic right for all
How to Die By BILLKELLER (TheNew York Times, Published: October 7, 2012 ) ONE morning last month, Anthony Gilbey awakened from anesthesia in a hospital in the east of England. At his bedside were his daughter and an attending physician. The surgery had been unsuccessful, the doctor informed him. There was nothing more that could be done. […]