Board of Directors

Compassion 4 Kids International, Inc.

The Board of Directors for Compassion 4 Kids International are supporting Cikal Hope for Children so that they will be able to give orphans and street kids a home where they will be safe and able to have a childhood, just like you give your children.

Here is your introduction to the current members:

       Joseph Burke and N Jean Burke:

Director Joseph Burke, CEO, serves on all Committees

Being married since 1962, it is a milestone because they believe in working through all problems, no matter how insurmountable they may seem to be.

Joseph Burke began going to the Mentawai Islands to help with medical clinics, even though he was not a doctor, nurse, or a paramedic beginning in March 2000. He has been helping with medical clinics where up to 15% of the children die before they are 15 years old. He had a burden for helping children that lost their parents do to diseases but then the tsunami and 9.1 earthquake too place. His burden to help these children multiplied.

One village that Joe went to had not seen a white person for more than 10 years. At first the children would run away from him when he got a picture taken. It only took a couple of pictures, turning the camera around so they could see the picture, and then most of them wanted their picture taken.

In March 2005 Joe returned to Indonesia 5 months after having 2 heart attacks in 6 days and having 3 stents put in the vessels around the heart. He had to do something to help the children of that catastrophic tsunami that hit the west end of Sumatra. He went to the island of Nias for 10 days. After leaving Nias he spent two days in Medan where he took 2 very ill people (1-30 yr old lady and 1-8 month old boy) to the Catholic hospital. While he was there and having refreshments at a street-side restaurant, small children came up to him, a number of them. Joe asked the interpreter who these children were. Were they sent by parents to help raise money for food? "Most of them are children without parents. They are either orphans or they are throw away kids that parents do not have the money to support them," was the answer.

When Joe returned to the USA he did an internet search for "Indonesian Street Kids" and that give Joe the push he needed to start working on getting the corporation to recognized as a charity. The award letter was signed on December 15, 2006.

Joe and his wife, Jean, have been working with children for over 30 years and would love to have you join them in continuing to help even more children. A child's smile is priceless, and when you support a child, you bring a forever smile within the heart of that child. Join with Joe in reaching out to one child at a time.

supporthekids@compassion-4-kids-int.org

 Jason Muccino

Director Jason Muccino oversees the education of the children at the Cikal Hope for Children.

Jason has taught instrumental music in Hackensack, New Jersey for the past 10 years.  From 2007-2008, he will be teaching in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Jason has traveled throughout Europe with students on musical tours. He has also visited and taught in various schools throughout Asia, including Japan, China, Thailand, and Nepal.

Jason has also worked for a short time with children in Ecuador and Costa Rica, teaching them English. His latest trip to Nepal made him realize how much more fortunate his students are back home compared with many places in the world. He decided that he needed to do something to help these children who simply cannot help themselves.

As a director for Compassion 4 Kids International, his goal is to help allow the many street children of Indonesia to live a happier and more fulfilling life with other children with a loving parent to guide and train them.

As the Director of Education Jason will oversee curriculum and learning goals for the children and also for all staff members working at the home for children. He will implement the teaching curriculum to also teach English to not only the children, but also the staff. This will enable the children to obtain better educational prospects for secondary education and to help them get better paying jobs and vocations after graduating from high school.

Many jobs in the Indonesian economy use English in their interchange of business on the world market. So the better English a young adult knows, the higher the wage or salary that they will be able to earn. Non-English speaking jobs, if there are any for a graduate, is not more that $60 per month.

So now you can get involved, probably not as a director, but as a person that will support reaching out to children. No matter where a child lives, they do not deserve slavery or child manipulation, just to live. Help support Compassion 4 Kids International, Inc. and take a child out of prostitution, being pimped, or manipulated by pedophiles. Contact us by sending an email asking how you can help.

supporthekids@compassion-4-kids-int.org

    Henney Saraswati

Director Henny Saraswati serving on the Website and the Health Nutrition Committee

Henny Saraswati was born in Jakarta and after graduating from High School in Jakarta-Indonesia, She attended her College at Cambridge University, England. Then she also went to International Airlines & Hospitality Academy in Vancouver-Washington.

Henny has been to 29 different cities, countries, or US states during her life giving her a life of seeing the plight and needs of children.

Henny accepted Jesus as her personal savior in January 2008 and came upon the outreach program of Compassion 4 Kids International, Inc. and found a place where she can be fully immersed into helping children, especially street children and orphans that society does not respect or take care of in Indonesia, her home country.

“My heart has been broken since I was teenager for the orphans, street children, hungry people and very poor people. But I think that being a person that joins a group to sponsor a child or even become an ambassador has given me new insight into how God is working in the world. Then by reaching out to one child at a time things can happen and one person can make a difference. I know that many seeds have been planted by Compassion 4 Kids International, Inc. and this has given me a great joy!"

 supporthekids@compassion-4-kids-int.org

     Angela Tobing 

     Director Angela Tobing  is the Director contact in Indonesia

Angela Tobing is the CEO and President of Cikal Hope for Children. Angela Tobing responded to the request to help in building a home for street children. Angela did not think very long and within a couple of weeks had advised Joseph Burke that she would help him in reaching out to children that have no hope of a childhood or a respectable adult life.

After sharing this with her father, her father gave permission to use the property behind his house to begin a home for children.

You can also join Angela and reach out to children and provide a safe shelter, provide food, make sure they receive a good education, and will have great medical care up to when they turn 18 years of age, or even into a college or secondary school.

When in Stabat in February 2006, Joe was invited by Angela Tobing to go to the school that she taught at. She taught in the Kindergarten room with 13 children and one assistant helping.

Angela was also on the island of Nias with Joe and she remained behind to be with a nurse and her daughter from Hawaii, and Paul Petty from Evergreen, Colorado. All of them were to stay an additional week of medical clinics when on Monday night March 28, 2005 at 11:59 a 9.1 earthquake hit. After returning to Stabat she applied and was accepted as a school teacher at a school. The school head master made the decision that Joe was a welcomed guest and they would be honored if Joe would pose for a picture with each class. So Angela and Joe had their picture taken with Angela's class and then went from room to room with the head master taking these precious pictures.

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