Provide Skills for Indonesian Unemployed Youth

2017 has been quite a difficult year for the Vocational Training Center in Cipanas. Starting last July, the government launched the Full Day School (FDS) program. Even though this policy is not mandatory, most of the high schools in Cipanas have applied this program since the beginning of school year. Normally the schools would dismiss students at 2pm, and the students would then come to YUM VTC afterwards for classes, but now with the FDS, students now remain at school until 4pm. This situation has affected the number of participants because it is impossible for them to attend the classes on weekdays. In order to solve this situation, luckily we have very dedicated tutors who are willing to teach on the weekend. Six dedicated tutors continued to teach more than 200 students in Computer, English and Sewing classes since August. Besides that, we also welcomed 123 participants in the Job Seeking Skills workshop.

Another notable activity in 2017 is that, since June, we opened a very simple Internet connection rental with four computers for the people in the area. We realized that not every house, school or community space has computers or a reliable Internet connection. Therefore, by opening this facility, we would like to accommodate the people’s needs, especially for the students and youths, as this could be used for school assignments, job seeking, sending job applications etc.

These small and simple happenings in 2017 would have been impossible without any support from you, our GlobalGiving generous donors. At this end of year, we would like to thank you for your continued support and dedication. Your help is still very much needed to continue our work and we hope that if you haven’t yet made a donation this end of year, please do consider donating to this project.