By I Wayan Suteja | EBPP Pengalusan Headmaster
As we reported in August, our students celebrated the 76th Indonesian Independence Day on August 17th by holding a virtual competition that students participated from home due to the Covid pandemic, after judging by teachers and management, we are pleased to share information on the winners, as follows: Story writing competition for senior high school: Pengalusan’s Senen won 2nd place; Painting competition for primary school: Jatituhu students Aryadi and Gotra won the first and second place respectively.
From August through to the beginning of October Pengalusan and Jatituhu students at all levels continued remote learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic until 11th October 11th 2021 - the happiest for all of our students: finally our governor allows all schools to open and conduct restricted face to face learning with applying strict health protocols. This decision was taken because the number of Covid-19 cases especially in Bali had decrease. All students learn based on schedule given.
The joy of coming back to schools was short-lived however! On October 16th at 4.20am an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.8 occurred rocking all of Ban village and destroying many houses with others suffering minor to heavy damage. In Pengalusan there were 2 students who were severely affected: One girl’s home was completely destroyed and a boy’s house was badly cracked; while in Jatituhu 7 students were affected. EBPP is currently seeking funding to provide temporary bamboo A-frame shelters for all families’ whose homes were destroyed by the earthquake.
EBPP also conducted observations through counselling by the psychology teacher to determine the level of trauma and the psychological state of the students, then continued with Trauma Healing activities from a professional psychology counselling team.
From 15 – 19 November, all students took their first semester exam to determine student competence and on November 26th 2021, all students were given gifts of Balinese sarongs and bamboo drinking straws, donated by Ms Twone from her Eco-Living Bali store, forced to close due to the pandemic. Thanks for your support for our students in this rainy season.
On December 6th, the EBPP teachers started the plastic awareness training campaign for students in all schools. This campaign is a program from Mudfish No Plastic to give EBPP students self-awareness to participate in reducing the use of single-use plastics in their daily lives. At the end, each student was given a prizes of a reusable water bottle – designed and provided by Mudfish No Plastic - as a replacement for plastic bottles.
On December 9th, 2021, the students from Pengalusan received the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine from the government after getting the first dose of vaccine on July 19, 2021. And on December 17th all students will receive school book report as to end this semester and as a result of their study performance during the first semester.
The EMpower Extracurricular program continued, remotely, with creative activities students’ selected of painting, singing, composing songs, cooking with ingredients from one's own garden, English class, communication, photography, and sports, as well as computer learning with the themes such as Microsoft Office and the introduction of Internet.
EBPP continued providing monthly staple food packages to all students during Covid-19 since May 2020, with this month, December being the 20th month, as all our students’ families are still suffering an economic crisis due to the pandemic and – recently the earthquake.
We are very grateful for GlobalGiving Crowd funding who keep supporting us through our hardship and struggles. We hope 2022 would be a much better year.
By I Made Suarjana | EBPP Head Teacher
By Ni Nengah Merdekawati | EBPP English teacher
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