Programs currently running
All programs are carried out inside Kampung Sitanala, Kelurahan Karang Anyar, Kecamatan Neglasari, Kota Tangerang — a settlement of leprosy survivors and their families, home to approximately 1,400 households or 4,500 residents, and the location of the foundation's office. The three programs below put into practice the aims of the foundation set out in Article 2 of the Akta Pendirian: the social, humanitarian, and religious fields.
Edu Center — Tutoring and Children's Library
Purpose and background
Children growing up in Kampung Sitanala face layered obstacles to learning: their families' limited means, cramped study space at home, and the stigma still attached to a village of leprosy survivors. This program exists to make sure those children stay in basic education and receive the learning support they do not get at home.
The foundation runs the Edu Center Agape Hijau Abadi in the RW 013 Sitanala neighborhood as both a tutoring center and a children's library. The subjects taught include calistung (reading, writing and arithmetic), mathematics, English, Korean, and computer skills. Outside class hours there are extracurricular activities: piano, guitar, drums, voice, football, and taekwondo.
Children come regularly to attend classes, do their schoolwork with a teacher's help, and read in the library room. Volunteers from the supporting community in Korea periodically join to guide the learning activities, crafts, and play.
The Edu Center also provides a computer class with laptops for older students, and receives community service (Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat) visits from higher education institutions — among them a team of students from a university in Jakarta on 19 April 2024. This program carries out the social activities set out in the Akta Pendirian: providing education and educational assistance to children in the foundation's neighborhood.
Peduli Kasih — Free Medical Service and Resident Assistance
Purpose and background
Kampung Sitanala formed around the Sitanala leprosy hospital and is now home to approximately 1,400 households — around 4,500 residents — including leprosy survivors together with their children and grandchildren. Some elderly residents live with permanent physical impairments caused by the disease, which makes work difficult and leaves them dependent on family or neighbors. The stigma still attached to the village's name also makes some residents reluctant to seek health care outside their own neighborhood.
This program aims to ease the burden of basic needs for the most vulnerable families and to bring health care — including leprosy wound care — closer to residents inside their own village.
The main activity of this program is Peduli Kasih — Free Medical Service, a no-cost health service held in the RW 013 Sitanala neighborhood together with a partner community from Korea. The services provided cover leprosy wound care, general treatment, dental treatment, and haircuts. The most recent documented session took place on 28 March 2026.
Residents register at the intake desk, are then examined by the health workers on duty, and receive medicine prepared on site by volunteers. Outside service days, the foundation distributes basic necessities to families in poverty and accompanies elderly residents and people with physical impairments — many of them leprosy survivors living in the same neighborhood.
As an indication of scale, on a single service day (25 May 2024) 130 residents received general treatment, 61 received wound care, 24 received dental treatment, and 33 received haircuts. Outside Sitanala, the foundation also carried out service activities together with the Evergreen community in Lampung Selatan on 15–17 October 2024 — a bazaar for residents, children's activities, repainting residents' houses, and a visit to Rumah Anak Harapan.
Community Support
Purpose and background
Long-standing stigma has led some residents of Kampung Sitanala to withdraw from social life outside the village. This program aims to rebuild a sense of belonging and self-worth among residents through regular community gatherings and shared activities open to every member of the family.
Activities include community gatherings for residents, shared activities for children and adults, and personal accompaniment for families facing hardship. Activities for children are combined with the education program, so that children who come to learn also receive support in building character.
The foundation also receives visits from youth volunteer teams from Korea who carry out activities alongside residents over several days — health services, crafts and games, and art activities including repainting the activity room. The children of Sitanala welcome these teams with a traditional dance performance they rehearse at the Edu Center.
All activities in this program are open to every resident without distinction of background. Participation is voluntary and is not a condition for receiving assistance or educational services from the foundation.
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