By Christine Parfitt | Founder and Managing Director
We've certainly been on a rollercoaster over the last three months, but are excited to end this quarter on a serious high!
Saras, our fabulous Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, received a scholarship to study a Master of Marine Science in Australia (congrats Saras!!). We've since expanded our team in Bali to include Sonja, our Social Media and Communications Officer and Ajeng, our new School Support Staff. Herni, our Indonesian Program Manager has been such a fantastic asset through this period of change. Unfortunately, due to the earthquakes in Sulawesi, the School Support Officer that we hired to work on Nusa Lembongan was unable to fulfil her contract so we are still seeking a staff member to work full time to support our teachers on Nusa Lembongan. Thankfully, we have a fabulous volunteer on Nusa Lembongan and we've built the capacity of the existing teachers on the Island to run the program without a support officer so we still have an update for you :)
Our aim through this crowdfunding campaign was to send 240 students from two schools through the BfB eight-lesson education program. So far, 122 students have completed the program and many more are on their way. There are a total of five primary schools in Lembongan Island and BfB is aiming to work with all of them in the coming year.
SDN 1 Lembongan The number of students join BfB program this period is 42 students, 20 students from year 4 and 22 students from year 5. The students have just finished lesson one.
SDN 2 Lembongan The number of students join BfB program for this year is 52 students; 27 students from year 4 and 25 students from year 5. The students have completed up to lesson six.
SDN 3 Lembongan This school completed one round of the BfB eight-lesson program, however as we mentioned in previous reports, we want to re-train these teachers to ensure they are maintaining the integrity of the BfB program. We have received many applications for our School Support Staff (SSS) on Nusa Lembongan and will conduct interviews on Monday. Once we hire our SSS, we will visit Nusa Lembongan as a team and re-train the teachers. We hope this school can continue lessons in January.
An New School: SDN 1 Jungut Batu This school is still on the Island of Nusa Lembongan, but located a little closer to the tourist region in an area called Jungut Batu. After having a meeting with the principle, our BfB volunteer on Nusa Lembongan was able to visit the school to meet the teachers. We were able to explain the BfB program to these teachers and show them how the school can take part. Once we've hired our SSS, we will have another meeting with the school in the hopes we can work together next year.
With Christmas coming up, it's the perfect time to make a donation. We'd love your support to expand to these new schools and truly make Nusa Lembongan Plastic Free.
Thank You,
The Bottle for Botol Team
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