A recent population boom has made Jakarta, Indonesia, home to nearly 9 million inhabitants. The flood of people into this port city has pushed Jakarta’s poor into massive slums to make room for new commercial buildings. From makeshift homes and forgotten corners of the city, tens of thousands of street children come to Jakarta’s congested streets every night to beg.
The Nurani Insani School for Street Children was started to educate street children and break the cycle of poverty.
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Street Music for Street Kids was a unique and dynamic free event to raise support for the Nurani Insani School for Street Children and to raise awareness of street children around the world.
We wish to thank everyone for making this event a success!
| · Sounds of Blackness · Aby Wolf · Mighty Fairly · Wookiefoot's Mark Murphy · Patrick McCormick · Innocent · Ada Jane · Semeron · Hyland · Enchanted Ape · Billy Johnson · Tom Feldmann · Helen Hoffman |
· Hell's Kitchen · JAZZ88 · KFAI · Lisa Walker · Mark Hentges · Zach Nelson · Lance Lundstrom · Chase Hentges · Nate Peterson · Steve Floyd · Bronson Enriquez · Kyra Gibson |
· Youth Performance Company · Adam Hanson · Lauren Fischer · Ari Edes · Rachel Yuen · Tony Wald · Jennifer Bissell · Scott Schmidley · Rich Perkins · Maddy Buck · Liz Werner · Stephanie Kinnunen |
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