The latest news from baby Gratia’s family
drt on Oct 14 2007 at 10:57 pm | Filed under: Charity, Health, Human Interest
I just got off the phone talking to Winston, the father of baby Gratia in Jakarta. He said they are still in Idul-Fitri holiday season there, and most of the people are not back yet from their holiday travels. This was pretty much what uncle Nakmofa told me this morning. Someone from Kupang has also asked Winston to talk to the Rotary Club in Jakarta, but no one was in the office this week. As I mentioned in previous post, the charity foundation office at the National Cardiovascular Center would be opened for business next week. This afternoon Winston is heading to Cengkareng airport to pick up some documents for baby Gratia that his Church in Timor sent him. He would send me some more pictures when he comes back, and I’m going to share with y’all as soon as I get them.
He also mentioned that the congregation in their home town is also organizing a campaign to pitch in for baby Gratia’s fund. Out of curiosity I asked him, how did they do that since in my mind, his church was in a small town? Oh, he said, they will bring in bananas and other crops from their farm, or their livestocks, including chicken and eggs and sell it then give the organizer the money. I have never thought about how it works in a small town church, where most of their members are from a peasant community. But it shows that everybody really cares about the sweet baby daughter of their pastor, who has waited for 6 years and gone through 4 miscarraiges but now their first daughter has to face with this terible VSD. Fortunately, like my colleague Amy said, the outcome of the surgery is usually good. In addition, they are in the best cardiovascular center in Indonesian capital, not in my hometown where doctors could only rely on their trained ears and a stethoscope. I could only hope and pray for the best outcome for her surgery, which is to be decided next week. But if you have followed the story you will know that, one of the factors to decide whether and when she would get the surgery also dependent on whether Rondo’s family and friends can come up with an extra $6,600. True, it is only $6,600 US, but please wait until after you’ve heard the conversion rate. It’s 60 million Indonesian rupiahs! 60 + 6 zeroes!
That number reminds me the number in my Adsense and TTZ accounts. I was checking my Adsense Report and saw 4 clicks today and that gave me $0.80 while my TTZ account also shows 4 clicks for $0.60. Hahaha, great! Would my server be able to handle the visitors when my fellow bloggers out there started to send people here?
Just wait and see! 
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