Project adoptees NL - Volunteers wanted! (Indonesia/My Roots)
Although the ministry recently announced that more than 36 million euros will be
made available for a national expertise center, but there is still no money being
made available for individual searches and DNA research, there is still some
progress in the possibilities to give the mothers in Indonesia and adoptees in the
Netherlands.
Money for projects
After a long wait, the Ministry of Justice and Security has processed our subsidy
application and approved it completely - without any comment or adjustment!
We are very happy with this good news!
This means that we can immediately start implementing various projects in
Indonesia!
Would you like to help with the implementation of these projects in
Indonesia?
Do you want to think about the further details? Would you like to connect with the
volunteers in Indonesia? Can you work well together and are you result-oriented?
Send us an email and indicate which project you prefer:
1. Professionalization of fieldwork in Indonesia
With this project we increase the professionalism and expertise of the volunteers
in Indonesia so that we can better support and help adoptees and their biological
families.
We have received money to set up a five-day course in Indonesia where the
volunteers are taught by Dutch and Indonesian teachers.
The volunteers learn about the background of the adoptees, the privacy legislation,
the search options, but also how they can communicate clearly and clearly with
people in a vulnerable position and how to work and report in a planned way.
Mentors will be trained to assist adoptees when the mother or biological family is
found. They can help to prevent misunderstandings and have an eye for cultural
differences and possible dependency relationships.
A confidential counselor can be called in if something has unexpectedly gone
wrong and the adoptee and/or mother needs help with this.
The volunteers (field workers, mentors and confidants) from Indonesia can
participate in the course. At the end of the training they subscribe to rules of
conduct and receive a certificate.
2. Mapping the search options (further)
Information that is already known, combined with the advice of experts in
Indonesia, provides insight into the options available.
We are developing a step-by-step plan based on which every adoptee and family
Indonesia can gain insight into what is still possible and what has already been
tried.
3. Developing a database
Together with a programmer in Indonesia, we are developing a database with
which searching in documents can be done more systematically and connections
can be made more easily. Obviously, this database must comply with all European
and Indonesian legislation in this area.
4. Setting up a website in Indonesia and conducting a media
campaign
Through a new website and media campaign in Indonesia, we are calling on
mothers and their families to come forward and we are trying to break the taboo
that still rests on adoption.
5. Developing educational materials for mothers
With the help of Indonesian graphic designers, we are developing educational
material with the help of drawings and comic strips (to also reach the illiterate
mothers) on the basis of which the mothers can be informed about DNA testing.
The following applies to each project:
Volunteers in the Netherlands are only eligible for an expense allowance (based on
necessary costs incurred.)
As board members, we do not receive any compensation.
Are you in?
As you can read, carrying out these projects will take a lot of time and we are
urgently looking for serious helping hands.
So are you that serious candidate who has time to spare and would like to help us
with this completely voluntarily?
Send a motivation letter and CV before June 20, 2021 to info@adoptionindonesie.nl