The Amazing Street Children that I Have Ever Met

As a last year student in a university, I have to fulfill  some exit requirement in order to graduate well from my university. One of the exit requirements that I have to fulfill is finishing KKN project for two months in a place to serve the community. That project was a group project so that I chosen some friend to work together. After conducting survey in several places, my friends and I finally decided to choose a place named Kampus Diakonia Modern (KDM). Since 1972, Kampus Diakonia Modern (KDM) has been offering street children from Java and Sumatra with the opportunity for a better life, by empowering street children to become independent, self-supporting adults. KDM could not do this without its partners and friends, and the many ways people can support its work. Based on that reason, we finally chosen KDM as a place to do KKN project.
Before we started the project, firstly we divided the duty for each group member. At that time, my duty was to be an English and craft teacher. Every Monday and Wednesday in a week, I had to teach English for the street children in beginner level and then  teach craft for 5-7 years old children every Friday and Saturday. At the first time I taught them English and craft, I underestimated their ability in learning. I thought that it would be difficult to teach them because their educational background unlike most children in general. Then I taught them for several times. I was very surprised, apparently what I thought about them was wrong. They are very smart, active, proactive, creative, and innovative. Frankly I said, I was amazed by their creativity in creating something from scraps. Not only skilled in making handicrafts, they are also good at cultivating mushrooms. They sell the mushroom several times in a week when the mushroom is ready to be harvested. In addition, they rich of experience. They struggle to survive and it makes me impressed and inspired. Some of them have started earn money independently when they were 2-5 years old. I learn a lot from them. The following are hand crafts that they have made and mushroom that is cultivated by them: