After working for environmental project, we moved to our project with children in prostitution area. Everything was different, not only the theme of the project, but also the campsite (of course), the circumstance, the weather, and the experience.

I take those three words in the title to describe the second project in this work camp; children, prostitutes, and animal.

I put children in the first order is because our project mainly focus on children in prostitution area. Almost every day we do activity with children. One of the aims of this project is to give a space for children in prostitution area to play with their fellow children and to shift their mind for a while from their original environment to their real environment. The children in that area are living in the prostitution area with the condition where a lot of things that they are not supposed to see. For instance: alcohol, sexy prostitutes with beer and cigarette, sex transaction, etc. That is why we came there to play with them, gave them education through games, and taught them making handicraft. Besides, we also made badminton competition to encourage them to sharpen their brilliant skill in badminton.

Frankly saying, the children there are a bit naughty and “wild”. It was so hard to organize them. We had to prepare layers of plans since our first plan sometime did not work due to their very active reactions. However, it was really nice, somehow, to see their smile and laugh when they run and mess up our program. They seemed very free and found their real childhood with their friends. So nice!

Prostitution can also depict this second project since we were working in the prostitution area though we did not really get in touch with them. However, we had one activity with them which was aerobic. Aerobic is actually their regular activity held in every Friday morning. Fortunately at that time we had occasion to do aerobic with them. In the first very beginning we also led the aerobic before the real aerobics instructor came.

Nearby our campsite, approximately 2 km from the prostitution area, we had very active village youngster. They are used to ask us to involve in their activity in that village. Therefore, some days we could realize some activities with the local youth, such as campaign on drugs, cooking exchange (again we cooked hutspot), self defense training, jogging in the morning, etc. It was very interesting to work with them.

Other story from our campsite is about animal. Why do I say so? It is because during our stay there, we found a lot of animal which made the Dutch volunteers very surprised. Actually it was not that much though!!!

First, in our home we had a cat, but in early in the morning there were two cats. Second, we had a little bird of Momo that is found by our host (and finally it flew away) Third, we had two little ducks of Toto that he bought in the traditional market. And the last we had a very big spider behind the cupboard that surprised everybody in the night before we sleep.

The cats used to fighting early in the morning on the roof and suddenly one day they were falling down to the room where Anja, Selmar, Jorine, and Madelon sleeping. Unexpectedly, one of these cats scratched Anja’s finger on her foot. Abruptly, it became very worry day since she was afraid of rabies virus brought by the cat.

The spider also gives us another hectic story. We were supposed to sleep at that night. However there was a big spider under the cupboard in the place where Indonesian volunteers sleeping. Everybody was very curious to see the spider therefore everybody was awake and gathered in Indonesian corner to witness the spider. Anja was the hero at that night. She finally could catch that spider though she failed before.

Somehow, it gives new experience for Indonesian too to deal with that kind of animal even though we get use to it actually. But it was fun, anyway, to be surprised of animals, and to be hectic with the children!!