2:15pm - Praying Association, Sarinah |
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Every week Rosita goes to Jakarta's 'church of the poor'. They helped her when she was desperate by paying for Hendrick's funeral and Patrick's birth in hospital. |
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"Oh God, show me the way..." |
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Every day, I still thought a bit about my husband. This is what I said. "Oh God, show me the way so that my husband can be buried? What about my children? Show me the way so that I can look after them," I said. I kept praying. In the end God answered, through Mrs Lanni, and she organised my giving birth and had my husband buried at Pondok Angun. |
20,000 expectant mothers die each year |
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In Indonesia every year 20,000 women die of aseptic labor, bleeding and poisoning during pregnancy as a result of poor nutritional intake, which is 50 times worse than in other ASEAN countries. The mortality rate is "equivilalent to a jumbo jet full of expectant mothers crashing every week". The Asian Economic Crisis Frank Ching, Asia Society, 2000 |