Deden

Deden

Seeing how Deden running on the soccer field is...

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...

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...

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....

Thank You Proteam

We are very grateful to Proteam Indonesia for being a donor for the sports equipment for the boys and women in jail, and for every sport activity at the Free and Safe foundation. Today we received extraordinary assistance from Proteam Indonesia, such as:⚽️ 30 futsal...

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,...

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...

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...

sharEmotion

Here it is !! This is the day ✨ New women's program! After all this time we had a program in prison we found that the thing that was most needed to empower them are friends! Yes, they need friends. Friends who are there for them, pray with them, play volleyball,...

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...

Psychological Counseling for The Boys

The boys who joined FSI program are being given psychological counseling with professionals from our partner @get.kalm to help manage their mental health. Kak Exa from @get.kalm who provides psychological guidance for the boys creates a comfortable counseling...

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Free and Safe

We’re a charity based in Indonesia focused on helping at-risk youth and and even supporting girls and women in crisis.

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Vision & Mision

Deden

Deden

Seeing how Deden running on the soccer field is...

The Mailbox

The Mailbox!! Shout out to our creative volunteers who have been teaching the girls for more than a month. Besides having English class, fun dancing class, and singing class, among others, the kids recently made a mailbox for the class. Every meeting our volunteers as...

Where Dreams Begin : Scholarship for Grace

(8 September 2023) Watch here : https://youtu.be/b8PnHMbiw68?si=og8pyLlCKclz5VJG Grace used to attend a public school with B accreditation. She was quiet, hardworking, and full of potential. When we met her, we saw more than just a student, we saw a dream waiting for...

Distribution of Sembako

(18 December 2023) At the end of this year, we distributed Sembako again to the women who live at Cipedes residents. We are happy to see them smiling 🤗 We hope that the groceries we distribute can help to fulfill their daily needs and those of their families as well...

Psychological Counseling for The Boys

The boys who joined FSI program are being given psychological counseling with professionals from our partner @get.kalm to help manage their mental health. Kak Exa from @get.kalm who provides psychological guidance for the boys creates a comfortable counseling...

Friendly Match – Futsal Kids Bali

Weeks ago, our U14 team played a friendly match with other team in Denpasar, Bali. Coincidentally, Jefri is part of the trainer team from Brave Bali where Brave Bali & FSI Bali work together to give training for the kids in Denpasar, ​​Bali. It was a fun...

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...

National Children’s Day 2020

Happy National Children’s Day 2020! On special day, Free and Safe Indonesia Foundation who were asked to attend an event for National Children’s Day event and meet the head of all Correctional Institutions in Indonesia, Vice Governor of West Java, Mayor of Bandung,...

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...

Free & Safe article on The People of Asia

The wonderful people of The People of Asia (pun intended) have written a great article about us here at Free and Safe, check it out! You can read the articles here:Life After Prison: Children's Journey to Free and Safe IndonesiaThe newest Story - Free and Safe: "When...

Welcome Home, Rizky

Welcome home, Rizky, our new boy at the transition house!So blessed and happy to have Rizky in our transition house, just as he joined us last week. Rizky is one of our children who is studying in our teenagers class and decided to live in a transition house because...

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Free and Safe

We’re a charity based in Indonesia focused on helping at-risk youth and and even supporting girls and women in crisis.

Program

Vision & Mision

Deden

Deden

Seeing how Deden running on the soccer field is...

Jorge Gets a Reward

This year, Jorge Márquez, the founder of Free and Safe, received an award from Mexican foreign affairs as the “Distinguished Mexican” this was later given and celebrated by the Mexican embassy in Jakarta. Jorge became an influential Mexican in the social world as Free...

The Boys went to Tangkuban Perahu

The boys went to Tangkuban Perahu Mount with a group from America! To get there, they need to walk down a long flight of stairs, but it all pays off. The view was amazing, there are forests and valleys. They also soak their feet in a pool of hot water while also...

Wahyu’s New Bike

New Bike Update for Wahyu  As you already know, one of our boys, Wahyu, works in a place that is quite far from the Transition Home. It takes almost an hour by bus to get there. So we put the need out there and raised funds to buy a motorbike. Now Wahyu can go to work...

Kids Class with A Group from America!

We had a group from America consisting of 5 members and a native volunteer. We invite them to visit and take part in some of the programs we run at FSI. One of them, they visited the Kids class at the Center of Hope and saw learning activities there for elementary...

Welcome Home, Rizky

Welcome home, Rizky, our new boy at the transition house!So blessed and happy to have Rizky in our transition house, just as he joined us last week. Rizky is one of our children who is studying in our teenagers class and decided to live in a transition house because...

Thank You Proteam

We are very grateful to Proteam Indonesia for being a donor for the sports equipment for the boys and women in jail, and for every sport activity at the Free and Safe foundation. Today we received extraordinary assistance from Proteam Indonesia, such as:⚽️ 30 futsal...

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...

FSI Got Talent!

FREE AND SAFE [Cipedes] Got Talent!! ✨ At Cipedes Got Talent, we had a group from Singapore visited and performed a song! The kids were very enthusiastic and jumped up and down when the group from Singapore performed. We’re very happy for this group from Singapore who...

Home to Home (Indah & Nur)

(8 August 2023) We visited Indah’s and Nur’s homes with a lovely group from America. Over a shared dinner, we exchanged stories about life, encouraged one another, and created beautiful memories together. We’re always so grateful for every 'Home to Home' visit. It’s a...

Building Your Future

(11 November 2023)Beacon Community Care holds classes for FSI Kids and FSI Women ✨ The topic is 'Building Your Future'. The aim of this class is for community empowerment in the fields of education and waste management to protect the environment as an investment for...

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Free and Safe

We’re a charity based in Indonesia focused on helping at-risk youth and and even supporting girls and women in crisis.

Program

Vision & Mision

Deden

Deden

Seeing how Deden running on the soccer field is...

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,...

Ceramic Workshop

For Women and Economic Development Program We made a ceramic workshop that is open to the public since the end of 2022. This ceramic workshop has a purpose to invite and involve people in helping the women & economic development program in Free and Safe. We want...

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...

Risky’s Story

This is a story of Risky, one of our boys that already released from LPKA. He was participated in football training activities while at LPKA. Even Risky has a difficult past, it doesn't determine his future. Last week he has contacted us and telling about his life...

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....

Center of Hope

Hope is a word that touches our hearts. There are so many women and children that end up wasting their lives because they feel that their future is hopeless. But we believe that is not true, because God always gives each of us a second chance which means there is...

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...

Deden accepted into a private high school!

Finally, Deden was accepted into a private high school in Bandung and had already bought his school supplies, such as uniforms and a ceremonial hat! He will start attending school on July 24. We hope he can follow the lessons well and feel comfortable with his new...

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...

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...

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Free and Safe

We’re a charity based in Indonesia focused on helping at-risk youth and and even supporting girls and women in crisis.

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Vision & Mision

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