INDONESIA • INDONESIA
UNA MIRADA DE ESPERANZA
GLIMPSE OF HOPE It is a challenge of being in a mission living in a small Dayak village where the source of living is mostly working in the animal farms and plantations such as vegetables, fruits and palm trees. Some goes fishing in the river, catching turtles, forging in the forest for food, hunting for wild animals like monitor lizards, snakes and even squirrels, are some of the practices of the Dayak people that according to their culture, is the basic way of living. Forest and rivers is enough for most of them. Because of this, a lot of the families here does not value higher education so much so the early childhood education, the educational foundation. One of our missions here in Sukaria, part of our charism of evangelizing education, we encourage families to send their children in our simple kindergarten. Last school year, we only have seven children who regularly go to school but as of this time after visiting their houses and encouraging parents, we now have almost double the number of the children who enrolled this school year. A hope of awareness of education as another way of life. A hope for the brighter future of their tribal generation.
Last Easter, it was a journey of faith and a gift of grace. Dayak people of the past are a tribe of no religion, they are animists. They are living in nature, with nature and for nature. Now a days many of the Dayak families are already converted to Christianity in different denominations and even other religions such as Islam and Buddhism. Thank you to the first missionaries. But still, many of the old Dayak people kept their practices and rituals to preserve their tribal culture. Last Easter, it was by the grace of the Lord and the prompting of the Holy Spirit that we are able to help four catechumens, two of them are elders of the village and one mother and child baptism to Catholicism. It was an unexpected journey that just started with an ecumenical question, “How is your Sunday? Have you been to church?” …then the journey begun… A journey of hope bringing people to Jesus, through Jesus and for Jesus.
Ma. Feda Lyndon A. Broqueza, ACI Filipina ACI, Missionary in Indonesia
Es un desafío estar viviendo nuestra misión en una pequeña aldea Dayak.
Para ellos la educación no está muy valorada, sobre todo la educación infantil. Por lo que una de nuestras misiones aquí, en Sukaria, es una guardería infantil. Es parte de nuestro carisma de educación y evangelización. El pasado curso solamente tuvimos siete niños que han asistido con regularidad. Al ver esta situación, hemos visitado las casas y animado a las familias, y este curso hemos duplicado el número de niños matriculados. Es un reto para nosotras y una esperanza para el pueblo Dayak.
Para el pueblo Dayak, el bosque y los ríos, según su cultura, es su forma básica de vida, suficientes para su subsistencia. Tienen granjas y plantaciones de verduras, frutas y palmeras. Van al bosque a buscar comida. Algunos van a pescar, coger tortugas, , cazar lagartos, serpientes e incluso ardillas.
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