Provide Skills for Indonesian Unemployed Youth

As we have discussed in previous report, the VTC had to face the impact of the new school schedule set by the Government starting at the end of 7^th term.

For that reason, we were obliged to re-schedule our classes in order to avoid clashes with the new school schedule for the 8^th term. So, we shortened the opening hours at our VTC during week days and opened English and Computer classes on Saturday and Sunday.

Despite our efforts, we could only have 8 classes, compared with 12 during the previous term. And for the above reason, from 192 students registered, 154 only could continue attending our classes. But, those remaining students showed much diligence with the result that 151 students were entitled to receive their certificate based on the test results and their attendance commitment.

On the other hand, Job Seeking Skills Workshop held three times, it was attended by YUM VTC’s students and outside students. Besides, we had some requests from school teachers around YUM Cipanas, to hold other workshops. After assessing the needs and problems of the teachers working in the area of Cipanas, we decided to hold some Computer Workshops for 55 participants from teachers and administrative staff working in preschools and elementary schools or in governmental and social institutions, because they have no computer skills when, in fact, it is much needed for their work.

The workshop was carried out every Saturday and Sunday delivered by VTC’s Computer tutors, Mr. Adi Y Abdul Rahman and Mr. Deden Tosin. Participants learned about Computer basics including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Publisher and others and those who attended the 2-day workshop were entitled to a certificate.

Dadan Iskandar, an administrative staff from Sindanglaya village, Cipanas wrote us saying:

“Thank you YUM for the attention paid to the administrative staff working in small villages. Currently, we canunderstand more about computers. I hope that YUM will have some other workshops in the future from a very basic to a higher levels.”

Despite the difficulties at the beginning expressed above, we could successfully finish the 8^th term thanks to your donations.

Currently, we have one young man, a bookkeeper at YUM Head Office, Paridi Akbar, who wants to continue his studies at university level. Paridi wishes that he can improve his quality of life and that of his family. Paridi's Education: A Role Model For Thousands will be in the GlobalGiving Bonus Day coming on March 18^th, 2015, where you can double your donation up to a 30 % on all donations up to $ 1,000 per donor per project or while funds remain.  There is $ 60,000 available in matching and matching begins on March 18^th 9:00:00 EDT and run until funds lasts or until 23:59:59 EDT (INDONESIAN TIME March, 18^th at 20:00 WIB until March 19^th at 10:59 WIB).

This BONUS DAY will only happen on March 18^th, 2015 so if you are to help, please share this message to your friends and family. Please let them know to wait until March 18^th before making their donations. YUM would like to make the most of this amazing opportunity, and we can’t do it without your help. THANK YOU!

After finishing successfully the 7th term of the Vocational Training Center (VTC) in September, we realized that we had to overcome a challenge: the new governmental school schedule. This new schedule affects, especially, to Senior High School students who start school at 6.30 am until 3.30 pm, that is, 9 hours of studies. This obviously clashes with our VTC’s classes that are supposed to start at 1pm. As a result of this, by the end of the 7th term, from 200 students only 141 students could take the final test and only 115 students were able to receive the certificate (due their attendance became less of 75% required for receiving the certificate).

Hopefully the 8th term will run well and we will be able to face the challenges by opening the VTC on weekends. That will serves to accommodate students needs to improve their skills and their quality of life.