Integrating church services to support single mother family in Yogyakarta

Program was aimed to make church stakeholders aware of problems of single mothers and children. RGS visited church stakeholders in Yogyakarta and Semarang to discuss possibilities for diocese of semarang to support single mother in Yogyakarta. RGS activities included:

-      26 January 2014 visited stakeholders in semarang to discuss programs for single mother in Yogyakarta. Head of Family life commission gave his support to RGS for assisting single mother in Yogyakarta. He admitted that single mothers have a lot of issues in society but Archdioces Semarang has lack of resources  for them. At this meeting, RGS was invited to conduct socialization on Single mother issue to other commission in Semarang. It was fruitful meeting for both Archdiocese Semarang and RGS indonesia.

-      16 May 2014 visited vicar of Yogyakarta and stakeholders of Commision of family in Yogyakarta to discuss public awareness on single mother issues and data gathering on single mother in Yogyakarta. Vicar informed us that community for single mother was one of the need in Yogyakarta because a lot of single mothers had met him for counselling. Through vicar recommendation RGS was connected to family life commission in Yogyakarta