Pendongkelan in East Jakarta is strategically located in the borders of Central Jakarta, East Jakarta and North Jakarta. A number of houses and huts lay by Ria Rio reservoir. Citizen of Pendongkelan are mostly outsiders, who have been occupying the land for decades. As public residence area, the number of citizen of Pendongkelan fluctuates everyday. But clearly, there are more than one thousand (1000) people live there. Mostly, they work in informal sectors like labours, scavengers, street sellers and street musicians. This area is known to be prone to criminality. Well-known criminals 'kapak merah', pocket thieves, and transvestites operate freely in this area.
We intiated Gerobak Pintar in Pedongkelan area on 29th of January 2011. It catered young children from 2 till 11 years old with our implementation partner HOPE Worldwide Indonesia. Activities were usually delivered two to three times a week. Children were being introduce to story books and also to pre-reading activities. Pedongkelan area was burned in year 2013 and people used to live in that area have been relocated to other parts of Jakarta.
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