Innotek Australia sponsors an Indonesian Orphanage
The Parapattan Orhanage was started in Batavia (now Jakarta) in 1832 by the Rev Walter Henry Medhurst, an English missionary and an ancestor of our Managing Director. The orphanage still operates today, caring for 66 boys and girls from all over Indonesia and provides for their education in private Christian schools.
Innotek Australia has committed funds to renovate and equip a room with furniture and computers for the purpose of providing a library for the children. This will be followed by efforts to stock the library with childrens books, mostly in Indonesian. We have also discussed with the Directors a number of other capital works and maintenance projects that we would like to help with in the future.
If you have any questions about our involvement or you would like to help support our efforts, please talk with one of our staff members. We are all committed to helping our neighbours children up in Indonesia.
Update on the progress as of July 2008
Parapattan are well on their way to having a new library and as a bonus they have been able to renovate another room as a small dispensary and sick bay. The Directors at Parapattan sent us the following photographs showing the progress of the renovations.
