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After being dormant for about 400 years, Mt. Sinabung had its first eruptions on August 29, 2010. It begun shooting lava and cloud of ashes up to 1.5 Kilometers into the sky, forcing more than 10,000 people of Karo District, North Sumatra to leave their home to a safer place.  People suffer from respiratory problems that associated with volcanic ash. Two persons have been reported died during the panic.

CWS Indonesia, through the PURE (Protecting Urban Refugees through Empowerment) Project collaborating with the Ministry of Social Affairs, the National Commission for Child Protection, Child Fund, PT. Pos Indonesia, UNICEF, PT. Faber Castell, SOS Children's Villages Indonesia, ILO, World Vision and Kino Innovator, commemorated National Children's Day on July 22, 2010 with the theme "With a Cheerful Smile, I Face the World".

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood. This transition involves biological, social, and psychological changes. During this period, normally within the age range of 13 - 19, curiosity is high which sometimes leads adolescents to reproductive health and drug abuse concerns.

One of the constraints to develop a cooperative faced by the savings and credit groups (KSP) that Church World Service assists in Poso District is the absence of networking with other institutions.  In addition, these groups have no registered status. There is a lack of awareness among the groups on the importance of building networking and establishing registered entity.

By Ismira Lutfia.

Refugees of all ages and many nationalities seemed to be enjoying themselves at the Bogor Botanical Garden on Tuesday to celebrate World Refugee Day.

Some faces looked familiar from a year ago, as they have been waiting in Jakarta and Bogor for years for resettlement to a third country.