Beni tells his story

"Hello how are you all? I hope you are in good condition and pleasant, introduce my name is I GD MD BENI DWI ANGGARA PUTRA, I am the second of three siblings, I have an older brother and a younger sister named Jayanti Mustika Dewi, 

I live in Jatiluwih village, Tabanan district. I used to live with my parents, my younger sister and my grandmother, but as time went by. When, I went to junior high school in 2010, I had to be separated from my father, he past away because of an illness that he had been suffering from for quite a long time. 

Because that incident made me depressed for a long time, and then I lived with my mother, my sister and my grandmother. 

Time passed so quickly and I graduated from junior high school and will continue to Senior high school, 

But the surprise that I never expected was that I had to separate again from my mother, the only one who I hoped would keep me going, she pass away in 2013, and made me sink and dissolve into sadness. 

With that incident, I never thought about life without parents to direct me in life, and had to fight alone, encourage myself, when I cried there was no one to consult with.

Time is still time that continues to run without turning back, and when I was discouraged I knew Mr. Frank offered to go to the university I wanted, to make it easier to find a job. 

After I finished senior high school, I was invited to join and live at the Strong Angel Adopt School in Nusa Dua, at first I felt strange because this was my new place, but everything changed when over time I entered the diploma campus, and at Strong Angel I had many friends like family who came from various districts in Bali. 

Not only that, I also feel like I'm living again, sharing a room with new people, and cooking together like a demo hahaha, but I'm happy and don't feel lonely anymore, especially since I know a friend at Strong Angel who likes futsal and we make time at the weekend to do it together. 

We share our ups and downs together and can experience eating together when our sponsors come like Susane, Margaret and the late Donn, we can sing and perform without any restrictions when they come to visit us, and once we visited the foundation in Klungkung with the strong angel children who were invited by Mr Frank, we could feel sadness when we remembered that we were from families who couldn't afford it, our sponsors could support it, and I said thank you very much, because Can't everyone feel it, when we are below there are heavenly angels who help our lives, 

and it didn't feel like time was going by so fast, I finished my studies at my university, and graduated, and after that I started to move into the world of work, the first time I worked at Happy Villa which is in Kedongan, Jimbaran, and had to stop because of Mount Agung, but I didn't abstain gave up because I remembered that the struggle of the people who helped me up until that time was not easy, and I tried to find work and finally I worked at The Chillhouse in Canggu, at that time I had been working for a long time, around 3/4 years, which finally stopped because of Covid-19, and had to be at home for almost 2 more years.

We've had to be in a difficult phase for quite a long time, but it's not just us who feel it, but the world. 

Well, because Covid subsided, I tried to go out to look for work, and I got a job close to home, about 20 minutes from home, and until now I work at Adhi Jaya Suite Jatiluwih. OK, that’s all my very impressive experience, and thank you to the good people who have helped me get to this point, thank you to Mr. Frank and his whole family and thank you to our sponsors from Australia, and thank you to Strong Angels. 

Best Regard, 

Beni"

Beni at his workplace

Beni and his sister, Jayanti