Sponsor Marchya: http://www.compassion.com/sponsor_a_child/child-biography.htm?needKey=IO4930180In her home, 3 year old Marchya helps by running errands. She lives with her father and her mother. Her father is sometimes employed and her mother is sometimes employed as a project worker. There are 3 children in the family.
Marchya is not attending school because she is too young. Singing, playing house and playing with dolls are her favorite activities. She also attends church activities regularly.
Please remember Marchya in your prayers. Your love and support will help her to receive the assistance she needs to grow and develop.
Her Country
Indonesia consists of 17,000 islands along the equator between Australia and Asia. The larger islands have central mountain ranges and fertile plains and lowlands. The climate is tropical with a rainy season from October to April.
The country squeezes a population nearly the size of the United States into a landmass roughly triple the size of Texas; it has the fourth largest population in the world. Indonesia is also a diverse nation with many resources. More than 700 languages are spoken but the most common is Bahasa Indonesia. Islam claims 90 percent of Indonesians; however, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and animism are also practiced.
When Columbus sailed from Spain in 1492, he sought a new route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. The Portuguese arrived in the sixteenth century but in 1602 the Dutch began slowly gaining control of the islands. Following Japanese occupation during World War II, the country, led by Sukarno, proclaimed independence in 1945. Suharto ousted Sukarno in 1968 and held the presidency of the military-controlled republic until 1998, when a collapsing economy fueled riots and demands for reforms. In 2001, the country elected a female leader, President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
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