Acehnese to get mobile child care service

Acehnese to get mobile child care service

JAKARTA: Children in disaster-hit Aceh and Nias on Sumatra
island can now expect a visit by a mobile child care service unit
bringing in educational storybooks and promoting basic hygiene.

The mobile unit, donated by PT Novartis Biochemie, will be
operated by facilitators from the National Commission for Child
Protection.

"Based on our field observation, currently there is no mobile
child care service ... so we believe such a service would be very
useful," child psychologist and activist Seto Mulyadi who chairs
the commission said as quoted in a press statement.

He said that some of the books were specially written for
children living in post-emergency areas, adding that the basic
health promotion service would emphasize the importance of
personal hygiene, such as brushing teeth and cutting nails.

PT Novartis Biochemie president director Klaus Ribbe said that
his company, which dispatched several volunteers after the Dec.
26 tsunami in Aceh, was glad to be able to assist the victims of
the disaster in any way possible as part of its corporate social
responsibility program. --JP