Eveline Winarko

"We will immediately send a team with the aid to Padang to help the victims," Eveline Winarko, head of Sant'Egidio in Indonesia, told UCA News.

Eveline Winarko, coordinator of the Sant'Egidio community in Jakarta, told UCA News the program "aims to promote respect for poor people and an appreciation for those fasting" during the Islamic month of Ramadan.

She said funds for the program came from the community's members who also prepared food for the occasion.
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Winarko said that the Sant'Egidio community in Jakarta has held similar programs each Ramadan since 2007.

According to Eveline Winarko, coordinator of the Sant'Egidio community in Jakarta, it has organized the Christmas celebrations since 1996, usually at its center in West Jakarta. But in 2008, the community held two celebrations outside the center to deepen its solidarity with marginalized people. "Through these events, we want to unite them regardless of their religious and social backgrounds," she told UCA News.

Eveline Winarko, coordinator of the Jakarta community, told UCA News during the program, "The Negeri Pelangi movement aims to teach children and teenagers to respect differences, develop solidarity, love the earth and promote the spirit of friendship."

It started in Indonesia in 1994 and now has 500 members from 15 Sant'Egidio communities across the country.

In Jakarta, Winarko said, the movement arranges various activities such as visits to homes for elderly people and for disabled children, and meetings with street children, as well as gatherings for its members.