FSI Bali Team Won 1st & 2nd place

Last week, we had the incredible opportunity to host a mini league at Bangli Drug Prison, in collaboration with YWAM Bali and the Bangli Drug Prison team. Five teams from four different prisons participated, showcasing remarkable talent and teamwork. We are proud to...

Sharing is Caring

Last Sunday, we took the boys to perform community service at an orphanage in Bandung. We wanted them to practice the social and emotional skills that they already have. It's a simple thing, but it's meaningful to them! Why is practicing social skills important?...

Cooking Class at Cikondang

Last Sunday, we did a cooking training class in Cikondang village, Kota Baru Parahyangan. This village is a place for fishing attraction in the lake near it. The village head opened his house to hold the cooking class. The purpose is to help the residents learn how to...

DIY (Do It Yourself)

New Leather Wallet made by Rizki! We have a new volunteer who likes to make wallets, belts, and other items using leather. Yesterday Rizki learned how to make a leather wallet with his own hands, with help from Andrew, the new volunteer. Rizki was able to follow every...

Pledge United

Today was the last day of the Pledge United program that we ran with our boys in the Juvenile Prison. Pledge United is an experiential football program that uses football to make boys aware of the issues of gender based violence within Indonesia. The hope of Pledge...

Fikri, Our New Boy

We want to introduce our newest boy in the transition home. He is 16 years old boy name Muhammad Fikri Najib. We call him Fikri. He likes football a lot, just like our other boys. Before living in Bandung, he lived with his grandmother and aunt. Fikri's mother died...

Empowering Women

During the current pandemic in the city of Bandung, we are trying to empower the community. We found Ibu Sari, one of the mothers who lives near our foundation and needed help.    Ibu Sari has typhoid and has not been able to work for months because she's sick,...

Games Night

Games night is our family bonding night ✨🥰 Family time with our boys is one of the most important things in the transition home. Our Friday games night create fun teamwork, doing a positive activity and working together.

Crochet Class

Free and Safe Indonesia with Free and Safe Indonesia Women held a crochet class today, January 19 and 26. Anggreani, who is good at crochet, is now teaching other mothers to learn crochet. Anggreani is one of the women from Free and Safe Women friend. Some of the...

Congrats Rikzar

Congratulations Rikzar! We are very proud of you! After losing both of his parents, Rikzar was forced to become an independent person. Rikzar lost his mother to cancer in 2015, and lost his father in 2016 because of a stroke. Rikzar's parents had a dream for Rikzar to...

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Happy Tummy

This week has been super busy for some women in getting catering orders. They cooked more than 40 boxes of lunch and ordered for four days. The taste of delicious, healthy, and hygienic food is satisfying for all of us. With the order of 40 more food boxes coming in,...

Feri’s Semester Break

Feri's semester break is used to go to Central Java and help his mother who lives there to sell Gudeg. They also open a delivery service for their Gudeg. Not to forget they also spent time having dinner together after work while talking about each other's life updates...

Welcome Reza!

(28 August 2023) We decided to help Reza by giving him a job at Free and Safe. Now Reza has joined the FSI staff team and helps us with household chores. We are grateful to welcome Reza to our team. Hopefully, Reza can become a more responsible and independent person....

Happy Graduation, Boys!

It was a sad but proud for this Saturday night. Three of our boys in the transition house; Jayadi, Riski, and Sovian graduated from the transition house of Free and Safe Indonesia foundation. They have accomplished their stay in the transition house doing a really...

Gathering Partners and the Strengthening of Class 2A Women’s Prison Guardians in Bandung

Today Free and Safe Indonesia was invited to attend the Gathering Partners and the Strengthening of Class 2A Women's Prison Guardians in Bandung. This event was to express gratitude for the cooperation of foundations or other organizations that help, foster and become...

New Whiteboard

Yesterday, while training and visiting the women's jail, we handed over the whiteboard for our activities there. This whiteboard will be our tool for teaching English purposes. With the proceeds from the foundation and jail funds, we are grateful to provide the...

Cooking Class Batch 2

Something good is coming!​​​​​​​​This week we are starting to do second batch cooking training with different locations in the village area.​​​​​​​​We are thinking about how we can help them to have income while they are struggling with a financial problem. Because...

Online Classes

Online Zoom Classes for creative and English classes 📚💻Due to the unfinished pandemic situation and the Bandung city government imposing protocols again, the foundation has to close temporarily. This month we are starting online classes so that the kids can still...

FSI Reading Class

A new class at Free and Safe.We open Reading Classes for kids who are not fluent in reading yet. Our goal is to prepare kids who are about to go back to school but have difficulty in reading. Their mothers also said it is quite difficult to teach kids to read by...

2 New Boys!!

Riski is a very happy kid who just turned 17 years old. His story is incredible. He is one member of a set of quadruplets. Yes, four babies at once. Sadly, one of them died. He is from a village close to Cirebon (about a four hour drive from our city.) We had the...

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Rice Donation

Free and Safe keep growing to help more people in Indonesia, getting more considerable means more responsibilities and needs. One of the most important needs in Indonesia is rice. 800 kg of rice, can be used for consumption in our Transition Home and program needs....

Creative and English Class Graduation

Finally, the girls class managed to hold their performance graduations for the classes of of Creative Arts and English yesterday afternoon. Of course, with the Covid 19 health protocols, all guests must wash their hands, have their temperature checked, always wear a...

Giving Sembako

There is always a way to share love with others, because everyone is precious and important. A little story when we shared groceries (sembako) that we did last week. We met one of the women named Mrs. Mashita. She is a strong woman. But less than a year later she...

Games Night

Games night is our family bonding night ✨🥰 Family time with our boys is one of the most important things in the transition home. Our Friday games night create fun teamwork, doing a positive activity and working together.

Celebrate Independence Day!

(17 August 2023) Independence Day 🇮🇩🇮🇩 Celebration with the kids at the Center of Hope assisted by some of our new volunteers 🥳 instead of reguler classes, we held an independence contest in 2 days (Monday and Tuesday). The kids really enjoyed the event 😆 Some of them...

Pledge United

Today was the last day of the Pledge United program that we ran with our boys in the Juvenile Prison. Pledge United is an experiential football program that uses football to make boys aware of the issues of gender based violence within Indonesia. The hope of Pledge...

Sharemotion Journal

What inspired us to create the ShareEmotion Journal? Yes, the amazing women in the women's jail! After 3 years of FSI Women holding programs in the women's prison and women's jail, we have realized that what they need is someone to give them new hope and a place to...

FSI x JAC

The holiday break is over, online school starts tomorrow, and the FSI office will open again. To begin the new year on the right foot, we had a day of fun activities and team building for the boys and FSI staff. We were hosted by Java Adventure Co., an amazing travel...

FSI Kids

More than just a chance to have fun, play is serious business when it comes to a child's health and development. Playing is crucial in enhancing social development in children. Unstructured active play with others, including parents, siblings, and peers is a...

Welcome Home Bu Asih

Life After Prison: Women’s Journey to a Free and Safe FutureAsih from Bandung Detention Center has finally completed her prison term and she is ready for a new life #SECONDCHANCE. Many things shaped Asih during the process. Her family is one of the support systems for...

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Congrats Rikzar

Congratulations Rikzar! We are very proud of you! After losing both of his parents, Rikzar was forced to become an independent person. Rikzar lost his mother to cancer in 2015, and lost his father in 2016 because of a stroke. Rikzar's parents had a dream for Rikzar to...

New Boy

Meet Wahyu our newest boy to join the Free and Safe family. Wahyu is 21 years old and has already been staying in our transition home for almost 2 months 🙌🏻✨ Wahyu is the seventh of eight children, who comes from Cicalengka, a small town in West Java  Apart from being...

We Won!

Congratulations to our boy, Deden. He and his team won a championship at FJL Jawa Barat U-13 First Division. They competed in Purwakarta and won the league 🏆⚽️We are so proud of you! Keep up the good work.#freeandsafeindonesia...

Leather Craft Training – The Boys

Fikri and Reza took part in a short 2-month training starting in May to make handicrafts from leather materials with Andrew. The training is held 2x a week every Monday and Thursday. Fikri and Reza was taught how to make a wallet at their first meeting, and how to...

Welcome Reza!

(28 August 2023) We decided to help Reza by giving him a job at Free and Safe. Now Reza has joined the FSI staff team and helps us with household chores. We are grateful to welcome Reza to our team. Hopefully, Reza can become a more responsible and independent person....

FSI Working with Indonesian Goverment

Free and Safe is working with the Indonesian Government of the Ministry of Social Department from the City of Bandung and the province of West Java.Free and Safe have sent 165 pairs of new shoes to be distributed to people in need. We believe that by working together...

English Village

We are so happy to see Rikzar and Feri having fun in English Village Bandung learning the English language! 🤭 For more than one week they took classes, meet new people from different places, and introduced themselves to many people even though their main language...

Women’s Prison Story

Many imprisoned women are mothers and are usually the primary or sole provider for their children. When a mother is imprisoned, frequently the father does not continue to care for his children, resulting in large numbers of children being institutionalized. In a...

A Journey of Impact: Youth Team from America Visits FSI #FSIChangemakers

(20 October 2023) We were so grateful to welcome a youth team from America who visited us at the Free and Safe Indonesia Foundation! During their time with us, they visited every program we run from our kids’ program to the juvenile prison, and even joined us for home...

Buy our T-shirts, change a life!

We've had some wonderful help from locals in Bandung who helped design a line of t-shirts for us. You can now order those online, if you're in Indonesia and from outside Indonesia, and we'll get them to you! Buy them on: The People of Asia social marketplace Tokopedia...

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