Marjanne Oomen

Meet Marjanne

Marjanne is the founder of Stepping Stones Bali.

Marjanne’s love for volunteering started at an early age when, after graduating secondary school, she travelled to Nepal in 2001 to volunteer for six months. During this time, she taught at several special education schools and helped at a Mother Theresa home for patients with disabilities.

In 2007, while studying physiotherapy, Marjanne came to Indonesia for the first time where she was active in rehabilitation care in Bali from the very beginning. There she realized that many parents and care providers did not know which rehabilitation care is needed and/or present. The first seed of Stepping Stones Bali was sowed, although it was not until 2013 that she actually had the idea to help these parents who do not have the resources to find the right care for their child. In 2014, she started identifying where this problem came from and which stepping stones were missing. This led to the creation of Stepping Stones Bali.

In 2012, Marjanne married her Balinese husband Putu Supertama and together they have three children. Putu supports the foundation and is also a teacher at a local primary school.

Marjanne eats almost all Indonesian dishes, but she remains a Dutch at heart: the cheese sandwich remains her all-time favourite.