Descriptive study about Children well-being on homeless drifters who go to school in the age of 12 in children protection house (RPA) of Bahtera foundation Bandung.

Abstract

Homeless drifters who go to school are the unfortunate children because of family condition. They have no time to spend with their families and enough facilities to fulfill their own necessity (Suhartini, 2009). The objective of this study is to describe domains about children well-being on homeless drifters who go to school in the age of 12 in Rumah Perlindungan Anak (children protection house) Bahtera foundation bndung. Bahtera foundation is a community self-supporting institution whose programs are mainly for making efficient use of the society especially children in Bandung city. Children well-being is how the children judge their lives in subjective way commonly and specifically as UNICEF stated as 8 domains. The method used is descriptive study with 20 respondents who go to school in the ge of 12 as the sample. The data collecting technique used is by providing a questionnaire arranged by ISCSI and UNICEF. The questionanire contains statement items about 8 life satisfaction domains. The results show that the dominant domain on homeless drifters who go school is personal satisfaction domain, school and health satisfaction. And indominant domain is satisfaction domain with material things.