Provide Skills for Indonesian Unemployed Youth

VTC Courses

YUM started a new VTC Courses in mid-June offering: English (4 levels); Computer (3 levels) and Sewing (2 levels). Our tutors are very happy on the interest and attendance of our participants and confident they will do very well at the time of facing their final evaluation scheduled to take place in mid-September.

Dede, Student of Basic 1 Computer Class

“Before I never had the chance to be in front of a computer therefore I had to learn starting from the hardware. Now I am familiar and smarter in using the computer and excited to see how many things I can do.”

Neng, Student of Sewing Class

“This class has broaden my horizon and upgrade my sewing skills. My tutor is very patient with all students and I am very happy to see how much I am learning.

Workshops

The highlight activity during this term has been our Workshops directed to our VTC students and some outside participants in how to prepare them in getting a job. “How to make an atractive Application Letter and CV” and the “Importance of the Interview” were the themes chosen. Indeed, those fit the need of our participants who deseperately look for jobs in the area, site of many 2 or 3 starts hotels receiving influx of visitors coming from the nearby capital, Jakarta, during weekends.

That was the reason to choose Speakers from the Hostelry field. The first workshop was delivered by the Room Manager of Hotel Cianjur, and the second by the Operational Manager of Hotel Puncak Institute. YUM was happy to see how our Aula was fully attended.

After the sessions, we were happy when participants expressed their gratitude to YUM for the chance given to them in knowing about what Employer expects when receiving a Job Application Letter and the important of them to show self-confidence in the interview.

Hope our workshops has been useful for some of our participants to find a job and able to improve their quality of life.

Thank you GlobalGiving Donors for imparting to hundreds of young people skills. Many others are waiting their chance, through the YUM VTC project, to improve their quality of live and YUM rely on your valuable and continouos support for them to attain it. Thank you.

The 9^thterm at the Vocational Training Center (VTC) started on February 9^th with 233 registered students.  After placement tests and selections processes, 227 students were accepted to follow the classes. This term VTC Cipanas started with 4 English classes as well as 4 for Computer and 2 for Sewing. The course ended on April 30^th 2015. The last final exam was held on May and there were 174 students who were entitled to a certificate due to their attendance and exam qualifications.

All students who attended regularly our Courses passed the final exam. The graduation of this term has been 100 % !!!

The enthusiasm of this workshop is very high, but unfortunately the weather was not very supportive. The third session had to be cancelled for bad weather. This year the rainy season was very long in the area of Cipanas with heavy rains up to May. We believe next term will be better since we get into the dry season. Even though the weather, a total of 92 participants attended our Workshops on Job Seeking Skills with the following themes:“Company’s perspective in employee recruitment” by Agus Triyanto (HRD Manager Hotel Novus Cipanas) and “Job interview and Company’s perspective in employee recruitment” given by Bapak Kadek (Operasional Manager Hotel Cianjur dan Palace).

On April 25^th, 8 students from Singapore International School came to do community service at YUM Cipanas. Besides having YUM’s activities like: distributing packages with nutritional food to 25 YUM’s beneficiary children and working together in art and craft activities at the Library, they also participated in VTC’s English classes. They were in the conversation class for English Basic 3 and English Kids Class. Their visit was an excellent opportunity for our students to practicing their English and having an interaction with foreigners.

Neng Peni Novianti, Student of Sewing Beginner Class:

 “I would like to thanks for all the good lessons and services during my course. There were so much knowledge and techniques that I did not know before. Now, I can manage to open my own business at home and also help my mother.”

Ai Salamah, Student of Computer Basic 4 Class:

“The computer material given by YUM VTC was more focusing and has more practice than theory. I feel more confidence to find a job or continue my study in Computer Science. The lesson that I learned related with web design, blog, Microsoft office and many others will be useful for me in the future. All the best for  YUM VTC and crews”.

Thank you very much for all GlobalGiving Donors for your help.Through the VTC we can help to facilitate and accommodate students to improve their skills and by doing so, to improve their qualify of life and those of their communities in the future.

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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. 

In mid April 2014, the Vocational Training Center (VTC) Cipanas with the help of Priscilla Hall Memorial Foundation (PHMF) started its renovations. The building that has served us for more than 30 years, during the last rainy season there were several leaks disturbing much our classes and activities. Clearly, we needed to do some serious repairs.

Initially, the renovations were meant to repair only the roof and repair few doors and window frames, but by the time the works began, we found that most of the wooden window frames and windowpanes and ceiling needed to be replaced. No need to say, repainting as well the walls were cracks were very visible.

In early July, we had the visit of a group of 8 volunteers from Ceres Global Group from Australia, for an organic farm workshop and community services for a period of a week at our YUM Cipanas and another week at YUM Kalimantan. They were very enthusiastic with the works and thanks for them, the outdoor walls of the building could be painted and with it the works ended. They were very happy to contribute in the VTC's changes and we truly thankful them for their help.

Now, the VTC looks very fresh and clean. The colorful walls in green give a bright effect inside the class while the cream color walls outside is in harmony with its environment. On the other hand, we got a good number of chairs donated by the Jakarta International School (JIS) that are placed in the terrace to facilitate VTC's students waiting for their classes.

We wish to emphasize our sincere gratitude to everyone who has helped us: friends, supporters and donors. We hope that our VTC will be able to continue contributing its efforts in reducing unemployment by providing its best services to disadvantaged youths so that they are able to earn a living. Thank you!