World goodies on sale at women's charity bazaar

World goodies on sale at women's charity bazaar

JAKARTA (JP): Some walked away with Norwegian smoked salmon
and Chilean wine. Others preferred the Columbian coffee and the
Belgian chocolate.

Visitors yesterday to the opening of the 30th Women's
International Club Jakarta charity bazaar had the chance to buy
snacks and other specialities from 39 countries.

The goods, provided by the embassies and by 240 businesses,
will be on sale until from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at Jakarta
Convention Center.

The bazaar was opened yesterday by Mrs. Tuty Try Sutrisno,
wife of the Vice President.

WIC Jakarta president Mariah Waworuntu said that purpose of
the annual bazaar "is to collect funds to support the many social
welfare projects the WIC is involved in".

The club, established in 1950, helps orphanages, centers for
senior citizens, homes for abandoned babies, homes for socially
displaced people and schools for disabled children.

It also helps students of tertiary education institutions in
the last two years of their study.

"We also visit patients in hospitals who are lonely and have
nobody who cares," Waworuntu said at the opening.

To open the bazaar, Tuty pushed a button causing a large globe
of the world to rotate.

Dozens of children then displayed clothes of the countries
participating in the bazaar, and sang the "Heal the World"
song.

All profits from the two-day bazaar will be donated to 19
social foundations and institutions in Greater Jakarta.

These include six orphanages; Rawinala school for the
handicapped and blind; Panti Laras I and II transit homes for the
mentally disturbed; Sumber Asih, Sumber Budi and Bhakti Luhur
schools for the handicapped and retarded. (ind)