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Once a banker, Andy Stein ran the Hospitality Group for WestLB and was responsible for funding the development of the Mandarin Oriental in Washington DC, Copacabana Palace in Brazil, Esperanza in Cabo San Lucas, St. Regis Laguna Niguel and many other five star properties.

In 2001, he started the Orphaned Starfish Foundation because “I’ve always loved working with kids”, he told WiT, “and knew I could change their lives through education.”

His foundation teaches IT skills to kids in orphanages. It builds state-of-the-art computer centres and to date, it has 79 computer centres in 33 countries. It has four centres in Asia – in the Philippines, Cambodia and Nepal.

WiT For Good will support its Asia programme.

Donations can be made directly at OSF.org/donate

Andy Stein, Executive Chairman & Founder, Orphaned Starfish Foundation

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Artist-in-Residence

Djuwadi Ahwal

Yogyakarta/Timor Leste | Ubah Rumah Residency Artist, Nikoi Island
Member of Taring Padi

Djuwadi Ahwal (b. 1974), part of Nikoi Island’s Ubah Rumah Artist-in-Residence programme,  is a self-taught and accomplished artist from Blora district Central Jawa, Indonesia, who is well-known for his woodcut prints and highly skilled in Javanese wood carving.

His commitment to community-based arts has diversified his forms of expression to visual and performance arts and street art. He often takes on the role of a teaching artist in communities, focusing on environmental and social political issues.

Growing up near a Teak forest, he began an informal apprenticeship in traditional Javanese wood carving at age 15, learning from several master practitioners living in Randublatung, In 2005, he became a member of the renowned Yogyakarta-based art activist collective, Taring Padi, with his art reflecting strong political and social activism.

In both his personal work and his collaborative work with Taring Padi, he seeks to raise awareness of human rights through the culture of sharing and exchange. Over the years, Djuwadi has accumulated a rich and diverse experience, working collaboratively and living with communities, artists and on themes of nature and ecologies.

He has participated in numerous exhibitions, festivals and ran workshops as an independent artist and as a member of Taring Padi in Indonesia, Malaysia. Australia, East Timor, Thailand, Papua New Guinea and the USA.

He is currently based in Dili, Timor Leste.

Accommodation sponsored by Hotel Telegraph, Luxury Hotel, Singapore.

Some of his works

Here's what we are raising for

Donation Amount

Impact of Donation

USD 100,000

Supports English Language Programming across all Orphaned Starfish Programs

USD 50,000

Supports all operations for any of the 33 Orphaned Starfish countries ($100K for US, Brazil or Colombia)

USD 25,000

Supports all computers for any of the 80 Orphaned Starfish Programs

USD 10,000

Supports a teacher’s salary in any of the 80 Orphaned Starfish Programs for one year

USD 5,000

Provides 10 new computers to a program around the world or half a teacher’s salary for a year

USD 1,000

Provides 1 month of a teacher’s salary or two computers to a program around the world

USD 500

Provides a new computer to a program in any Orphaned Starfish Program around the world

USD 200

Supports a child’s technology education in one of the Orphaned Starfish programs worldwide

USD 100

Supports a child’s English Language education in one of the Orphaned Starfish programs worldwide