[Sunday Times: Yun Seok-moon, Chris Lee Reporter] From Indonesia, appealed to the world for help in treating her daughter's rare disease, and Natalie Tjahja, who had not lost hope in her desperate prayers, lost her seven-year-old daughter from a lung Infection from bacteria.
Natalie Tjahja, who has made great efforts to treat her daughter, has established a foundation - Maria Monique Lastwish Foundation to serve in her daughter's name in order to use her continued sponsorship in value even after she has lost her daughter, and through the foundation, she has been volunteering to help disabled and underprivileged people.
Natalie Tjahja, who founded the Maria Monique Lastwish Foundation at the end of 2006, has been active in earlist since 2007 and has so far provided 42,000 aid, with 1,400 volunteers around the world helping the Maria Monique Lastwish Foundation through volunteer work.
Producing 'Movie Boccia' to promote Boccia
Natalie Tjahja said, "Since the founding of the Maria Monique Foundation, we have been trying to give dreams and hopes to many children around the world, giving joy and happyness to 46,000 children in 42 countries with disabilities or rare diseases around the world."
Natalie Tjahja said she was introduced to Bocchia in 2017 through Tunku Maziah of the Bocchia Federation, a Malaysian royal family, and had a chance to meet Lean Chin Kit to learn more about Boccia. Of course, the public do not know about Boccia, so they planned to produce the movie ‘Movie Boccia’ to promote Boccia to the public who do not know.
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Natalie, who met with the beautiful heart of Chutinant Bhirombhakdi, who wanted to introduce the story of Thai disabled athletes into a documentary film and tell them hope and happiness, said she was impressed by his great efforts, so decided to produce the movie 'Movie Boccia'.
She was introduced to the Singapore Bocchia Federation through Tunku Maziah of the Malaysian Bocchia Federation, where she met Singaporean Boccia player Neo Kah Whye, who said he had a rare condition (a cerebral palsy accompanied by muscle tension). And, confirming that Lee is exercising every day taking 14 painkillers to do Boccia exercise, she judged it important to let the world know about Sports Boccia, and that the need for filmmaking also felt stronger.
Natalie Tjahja, who has decided to make a movie and is making a movie around the world with the help of many people, arrived in Korea on the 26th for filming the Korean part of the movie, and stayed at the Indonesian Embassy with a kind support of Mr. Umar Hadi, the ambassador of Republic of Indonesia in Korea and the first-class secretary, Mr. Furmo Widodo. And finally on Feb 27th, through consultation with the Korea Boccia Federation, shoot ‘Movie Boccia’ related to Korea at Icheon Disabled Training Center.
Relationship with Korea's Boccia through the Jakarta Asian Paralympics
Natalie Tjahja met members of Korean Boccia national team Ho-won Jung, Sung-jun Jung, Mink-yu Kwak and Korean Boccia national team manager Gwang-taek Im through Hye-kyeong Yang, a member of the Boccia Sports Science Support Team and a research fellow at Seoul National University who participated in the game translation at the Asian Paralympics Games in Jakarta in 2018.
After that, team manager Im introduced International Affairs Coordintor Ji-eun Bae and the secretary general Sang-jong Lee from Korean Boccia Federation to Natalie so they helped a lot to prepare the filming in Korea.
Also the Secretary general Sang-jong Lee introduced Korea Paralympic Committee, so they helped to get the approval of filming the movie in Korea. “Ho-won Jung plays a key role in filming in Korea and he helped a lot in filming with these 3 reasons”, Natalie tjahja said.
“He wanted to tell to many people about their story of Boccia and send a message of support that if they try hard and do not give up, they can be the best in a field and also Boccia is a big part of his life.
Ho-won Jung, who won the 2017 Paralympics for the Disabled, won the gold medal at the Asian Paralympics in Jakarta in 2017, and won the Grand Slam in five major events for the first time in the history of the Korean Paralympics. And he lives a life of giving scholarships named ‘Ho-won scholarship’ every semester for his alma mater for the junior students of Soong-duk School.
Ho-won Jung, who plays a key role in the filming, said, "The sport that allowed me to learn that I could be the best in any field is Boccia, and I was able to come out in the world through to Boccia." And also explained "I first appeared in movies and participated in scenarios, and it was very difficult and awkward. But the new challenge is exciting, and filming with good people is a different pleasure from the moment of playing.”
"Even if there is a difficult environment, if you don't give up and hope hard, you can always achieve that dream, so don't give up until the end and do your best," he told junior players who are having a hard childhood.
"Ho-won Jung has been a member of the national team since 2002, has participated in three Olympics and five Asian Games, and is a player who does his best in every game and stays at No. 1 ranking without any conceit and always studying and working hard in every games, and now he is preparing for the Tokyo Paralympics" said Lee Moon-young, a coach at Boccia.
'Movie Boccia' Made with the Help of the World
Boccia is a professional sport for people with severe disabilities. The Boccia competition consists of six red balls, six blue balls, one white ball, and a total of 13 balls, similar to winter sports curling competitions, with matches that attach closer to the target ball than the opponent's ball. Curling is a sport in which the house is fixed, but the Boccia target can move flexibly in a stadium of 6 meters wide and 12.5 meters long, requiring high concentration and thought.
In particular, Boccia has won gold medals for eight consecutive times from the 1988 Seoul Paralympics to the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
Sung-hee Kang, the chairman of Korean Boccia Federation, is giving a full support to Korea's Boccia team to reign as the world's best by attending international competitions, supporting the hosting of domestic competitions, and supporting sports science support (competition video analysis, sports psychology, sports massage) teams.
The movie "Movie Boccia," which is being filmed by Natalie Tjahja around the world, is being carried out with the help of many people. Magjd Rashid (President of the Asian Paralympic Committee), Tormar Rajesh (President of Cerebral Palsy Sports Association of India), Tarek Souei (CEO of the Asian Paralympic Committee), and Chutinant Bhirombhakdi (President of the Paralympic Thailand), who have played many roles in leading the organization, are providing systematic help for the smooth filming through active cooperation and sponsorship.
In Korea, sports manager Seung-hoon Lee of the Asian Paralympic Committee and Yoon-ki Kim, a filming team for extreme jobs, are helping out a lot. Seung-hoon Lee met Natalie in Jakarta last year and gave a lot of help, including advice on filming and also visited the filming site on the 27th. And Yun-ki Kim heard the general story of filming and helped Natalie with no pay in the shooting.
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