Help 50 Indonesian Kids Continue Their Schooling

Education has a vital role in our life. Most of the people that were accountable and responsible for that vital role, are our school teachers back when we needed that life advice and push to succeed. We want to highlight the importance of women’s contributions to Indonesia’s education over the past years. They are motherly, caring, and passionate in working to teach and educate young children from many backgrounds and races without prejudice.

Based on the 2017/2018 school year of Ministry of Education and Culture data, there are around 68,37% female teachers across Indonesia in comparison to 31,63% of male teachers in elementary schools. Also, there are 60,79% female teachers compared to the 39,21% male teachers for junior high schools in Indonesia. This data shows that female teachers are generally double the ratio of male teachers which showcases the passion these women have in educating future generations.

From the elementary schools that we’ve chosen to help, we’ve captured moments from Tunas Karya, Bina Pusaka, and Suraya Elementary School’s day-to-day activities, where they are located in Jakarta’s poorest districts, Tambora and Koja. We’ve seen that most of the teachers that are teaching in those schools are women. We are giving you a glimpse of female teachers who are helping these poor kids and still have the patience in teaching these needy kids while they barely have an income to cover their own lives. While the standard income of working people in Jakarta is about 4 million rupiahs, these women teachers only get half of that, and sometimes even less than half a million rupiahs. It is only noble we praise our teachers and mothers and value education highly by achieving better results and education quality.  

We want to keep you updated with photos and progress of the school’s preparation for the students to face their national and school final tests in the 6th grade soon! So keep yourselves updated on our project page at all times!