Headaches and nausea have plagued Bima* for countless days and months. Waking up with blinding headaches, which often measure 3 or 4 out of 5 on a pain scale, is his daily reality. Standing in the morning assembly in school fraught with nausea or vomiting is often the tragic shame he wears. Bima, 11 years […]
Little Lala* was being lovingly attended to by her grandmother “Popo”, when the team from Rachel House – nurse Fibrya and community health worker Risma – recently called to their home to check up on this sweet little girl. Lala is a lovely 13-year-old girl, who has been living with a serious illness from the […]
Nurse Dadan has dedicated himself to providing home-based care to children living with serious and life-limiting illnesses with Rachel House since 2014. Before joining Rachel House, 29-year-old Dadan worked as a nurse at one of the major hospitals in Tangerang, a satellite city of Jakarta. At the hospital he spent much of his time caring […]
By the Jakarta Post Jakarta / Sat, January 26, 2019 / 05:20 pm Early childhood education center Tutor Time Indonesia has donated Rp 470 million (US$33,180) to Rachel House and the Let’s Love Children Institution (YMCKK) foundations related to palliative and medical care for children with cancer, HIV, tuberculosis and other serious illnesses. Rachel House provides palliative care for children, […]
The thought of coming back to Jakarta during a break from studying overseas and doing absolutely nothing besides getting stuck in traffic trying to get to the malls or cafes seemed like a waste to me. Thankfully, I was fortunate to be able to volunteer my time at Rachel House, Indonesia’s first home-based pediatric palliative […]
With a casual glance, you wouldn’t know that these children were special. They looked just like any other kids waiting to enter Kidzania children’s adventure centre. But if you looked a little closer you could begin to see what made them, and this trip, feel so special. For a start, they were all in their […]
Triya* was enjoying a big bowl of bakso (meatball soup) when nurse Ria from Rachel House recently visited her home in South Jakarta. Simply seeing Triya eating a full bowl of bakso like any other eight-year-old girl brought a smile to Ria’s face and to that of Triya’s grandmother. This is because it demonstrates that […]
In a tiny one-room home in central Jakarta, a young girl celebrates a very special 5th birthday. On this happy day, little Diana* is surrounded by several generations of her family and some of the nurses from Rachel House; cuddling her new friend with joy and glee – a giant pink Hello Kitty that is […]
A successful Paediatric Palliative Care Symposium with the call towards “Advancing Pediatric Palliative Care in Indonesia” was held in central Jakarta in October 2018. Organised by Rachel House – the pioneering paediatric palliative care service provider in Indonesia and hosted by Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital – the largest national referral hospital in Indonesia, the symposium was […]
Rachel House/Yayasan Rumah Rachel is Indonesia’s first pediatric palliative home care service, helping children living with life-limiting conditions such as cancer and HIV, and their families. Rachel House also provide palliative care training programs for nurses, doctors and other health workers in palliative care, with an aim to build a palliative care ecosystem in Indonesia […]