Children’s palliative care in Indonesia
When a child is living with cancer or HIV, treatment alone is not enough. Rachel House nurses visit children in their own homes across Jakarta — managing pain, teaching families how to care, and staying beside them for as long as they are needed. Always free of charge.
Why we’re here
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Morphine and other essential pain medicines remain hard to access for children in much of Indonesia, and few clinicians are trained to prescribe them for paediatric patients.
When curative treatment ends, parents are left to manage symptoms, feeding, wounds and fear on their own — often in a single rented room.
It is widely read as “giving up”. In practice it starts at diagnosis, runs alongside treatment, and helps children live better for however long they have.
Who we are
Rachel House is an Indonesian non-profit providing free palliative care to children living with life-limiting illness. Our nurses travel across Jakarta by motorbike and public transport to reach children in their homes — relieving pain, dressing wounds, coaching parents, and making sure no family faces a child’s illness alone. Alongside direct care, we train doctors, nurses and community health workers so that this care reaches far beyond the families we can visit ourselves.
Our services
Three services, one aim. The first brings care to the child’s own home. The second builds the skills of the clinicians around them. The third carries both into communities our own nurses cannot reach.
Home visits from our paediatric palliative nurses: pain and symptom relief, wound care, nutrition guidance, and emotional support for the whole family — free of charge.
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Courses and hands-on mentoring for doctors, nurses and students, so that paediatric palliative care is understood and practised well across Indonesia’s health system.
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Training and mentoring for community health workers, nurses and doctors, so children in districts we cannot reach still receive skilled, compassionate care.
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A child’s story
“For eight months he had not asked for anything. Then one morning he asked for his uniform.”
Arif was nine when the pain in his legs became too much to hide. Our nurse began visiting twice a week — adjusting his medication until he could sleep through the night, teaching his mother how to keep the dosing steady, and slowly giving a boy back the ordinary hours of his day.
Watch
A cancer diagnosis, an amputated leg and a school that turned her away have not dimmed Tyas’ dream of becoming a teacher. Watch her family’s story, and nurse Dadan’s part in it.
Made by our friends at Poshture, Langkah by Lina Lee and LunaHabit.
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Foundations, companies and hospitals who make free care possible.
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Get involved
Give your time, your profession or your weekends — in the office, at events, or supporting families.
Apply to volunteerRun a birthday campaign, a school drive or a marathon, and bring your community with you.
Start a campaignCorporate partnerships, in-kind support and employee giving programmes that fund entire nursing routes.
Talk to our teamTake one small step
Every gift keeps a nurse on the road, a pain-relief kit stocked and a family supported through the hardest months of their lives.
