January babies and celebration at Rumah Juara

It was a spur of the moment kind of idea, where suddenly the bulb just pops out of the head kind of thing. We wanted to do a bit more for the kids so I called up Pastor Elizabeth and told her that for a year we would celebrate together the birthdays of each of the children. She was ecstatic.

Born on 13th January 2003, Sally Rani is an epitome of kindness and joy. She is never stingy with her smiles and has eyes as big as the moon. She is half Indian and half Indonesian. As with the elder sister (Shalini) and her younger brother (Yoel), they are unable to go to school as they do not have any birth certificate. And because of that 8 year old Sally and her siblings have a long way to catch up in terms of education. Despite of that, judging from their jovial characters and friendliness, their family background would have been an okay one - minus the fact that their mother was deported to Indonesia a few months back, after having staying here under the radar for 10 years.

The second January baby, Rishona (pronounced as Rish-wa-na) is 6 years old this year and together with her 3 siblings at the home, is a cutie herself. She would sit down properly as a lady and wait for her food to be served. At her birthday party she wore an off-shoulder red dress and she looked ravishing. These girls really took the extra effort to look nice on their birthday, don't they?

We had cakes, praise and worship and prayers after that. We bought 2 cakes for the both of them. Chocolate cake for the lady in white and mango cake for the lady in red.

 Here are some of the children singing

We ended the day slightly after 9pm. But I would bet the celebration has not ended even though we left for the 2 little ladies.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SALLY AND RISHONA!!