Our Core Team
The People Who Make BaliLife Happen
Behind every BaliLife project are people who show up every day — caring for children, walking alongside families, empowering communities and turning ideas into action. Our Core Team is made up of people who have given years of their lives to BaliLife. Some have grown with the Foundation from its earliest days, while others have joined more recently, bringing new energy and leadership.
What connects them is simple: they care deeply about people. They know the children by name, understand the communities we work with, celebrate the small victories and stay through the difficult seasons. Together, they are helping shape the next chapter of BaliLife.
Rio Sitinjak & Desi Purba
Rio Sitinjak & Desi Purba
Rio and Desi have been part of the BaliLife Children’s Home since 2014, dedicating their lives to caring for the children who call the Home their family.
As House Parents, their role goes far beyond providing a safe place to live. They walk alongside the children through everyday life — nourish them, encouraging them, guiding them, listening to them and helping them grow into confident young adults.
For more than a decade, Rio and Desi have watched our children grow, celebrated their achievements and stood beside them through their challenges.
For the children, Rio and Desi are not simply house parents. They are family.
Fani Simorangkir
Street Kids Centre Manager
Fani leads the BaliLife Street Kids Centre, working closely with children who are growing up in challenging circumstances. She is also arrange and develop curriculum for every level of PKBM program in the centre
She brings patience, compassion, vision and a genuine heart for every child who walks through the Centre’s doors. As the Centre Manager, she leads the team and helps create a place where children feel safe, valued and encouraged to believe in themselves.
Fani has become an important part of the BaliLife family and a role model for many of the children she works with.
For many of them, Fani is someone they can trust, look up to and believe in.
Christine Fitriany
Women Workshop Manager
Since joining BaliLife in 2023, Christine has been leading our Women Workshop and working closely with mothers from street and disadvantaged communities.
Her work is about creating opportunity with new ideas of creativity— helping women develop practical skills, embrace and build confidence and find ways to earn an income for their families.
Christine walks alongside these women, encouraging them to see that their circumstances do not have to define their future.
She is helping women build not only skills, but confidence, dignity and hope for their families.
Feny Ndun
Suwung Community Centre Manager
Feny has been part of BaliLife since 2013 and is one of our longest-serving team members.
In 2016, she helped establish the Suwung Community Centre and has continued to lead and expand BaliLife’s work in the community ever since.
Working closely with scavenger families and children in Suwung, Feny has helped grow the Centre into a place of education, support and opportunity.
Over the years, she has also helped manage several BaliLife centres and programs, bringing experience, consistency and deep relationships with the communities we serve.
Feny has walked alongside Suwung for years with compassion and love — she continues to believe in what the community can become.
Domonta Barus
Project Education Manager
Domonta joined BaliLife in 2025, bringing fresh energy, new skills and leadership as the Foundation looks toward its next ten years vision.
With experience in education, schools and child welfare, Domonta is helping BaliLife strengthen its education programs and develop new opportunities for children and communities across Indonesia.
He is part of a new generation of BaliLife leaders helping turn our long-term vision into action.
His focus is simple: creating more opportunities for children to learn, grow and build a better future.
Siska Nababan
Finance & Human Resources Manager – Daycare & Kindy Department
Siska has been part of BaliLife since 2008, making her one of the Foundation’s longest-serving team members.
For almost two decades, she has helped care for the people behind the work — supporting our staff, teams and the wider BaliLife family.
As Human Resources Manager, Siska plays an important role in creating a healthy working environment and making sure the people serving our communities are themselves supported and valued.
Her long journey with BaliLife means she carries a unique understanding of the Foundation, its people and how far it has come.
Siska is one of the familiar faces who has helped make BaliLife what it is today.
Fitri Yolanda
Marketing & PR Manager
Olan’s story is one of the most special within the BaliLife family.
She first came to BaliLife as a child, entering the Children’s Home at just 12 years old. She grew up within the BaliLife family, completed her education and later chose to give back to the organisation that had been such an important part of her life.
Olan joined the BaliLife team in 2018 and today leads our Marketing & PR team, helping share the stories of the children, families and communities we serve.
She brings something unique to her role.
Yolanda doesn’t just tell the BaliLife story — she has lived it.
Atap Josua
Marketing & Media
Atap came to the BaliLife Children’s Home with his sister in 2014. We have watched him grow from a young boy into an independent young man, while remaining closely connected to the BaliLife family.
Since 2021, Atap has been working with BaliLife and plays an important role in our Marketing & Media. He has helped grow our social media, website and video content, bringing the stories of our children, families and communities to life.
Since 2023, he has also been studying Visual Communication at university, developing his creative skills while continuing to contribute to BaliLife.
Atap grew up with BaliLife, and today he uses his creativity and talents to help share its story with the world.
Growing Together
Our Core Team represents different generations, skills and experiences, but they share a common purpose. They are caregivers, teachers, mentors, managers and leaders Some have been with BaliLife for almost two decades. Others are bringing new ideas and energy for the future. Together, they carry the day-to-day responsibility of turning BaliLife’s vision into real change
one child, one family and one community at a time. This is the BaliLife family.