EN-ID Blog
A decent home is a fundamental right for every individual to have a safe, comfortable, and adequate place to live. However, for millions of families in Indonesia, especially those with low incomes, achieving this condition can be a difficult dream to fulfill. Without decent homes, daily life becomes full of challenges, especially when facing inadequate kitchen conditions, as experienced by Nunung and her family.
“Before, my kitchen was like a shack, the walls were cracked, leaking everywhere, and almost collapsing,” said Nunung (51), a resident of Kadumanggu Village, Babakan Madang District, Bogor Regency.
It wasn’t easy for Nunung to improve her inadequate kitchen condition. Due to financial constraints, she could only hope for the kindness of donors to help her family. Living as a widow with two children made her struggle to meet daily needs. Even her second child had to quit school because of the situation.
Nunung’s health problems further complicated her situation. She could only rely on irregular income from her eldest child and assistance from neighbors. However, Nunung never lost hope. The dream of having a decent kitchen had haunted her mind for the past 10 years, when her late husband was still alive. Back then, they could cook and sell “cilok” together to supplement her husband’s income as a casual laborer.
Hearing Nunung’s story, Habitat for Humanity Indonesia, together with donors and volunteers, came to provide support in rebuilding Nunung’s kitchen and toilet.
“Now I have a new kitchen that is safe and comfortable,” said Nunung with a happy smile. “I want to gather capital to start selling ‘cilok’ again with this new kitchen, so that my second child can go back to school.”
At the age of 27, Habitat Indonesia feels happy to be able to help Nunung and more than 200,000 other families. We won’t stop here and will continue with the same vision of providing support to low-income families to achieve strength, stability, and self-reliance through decent homes.
