Education Indonesia Project #50082

Teach 3,000 Indonesian Children to Read

by Yayasan Tunas Aksara

Project Report | Mar 6, 2023
Project Update (Q1 2023)

By Stu Patience | Board member

Dear Supporters,

Thank you for your continued support of this campaign. It is of great significance to us, but especially to all the children and teachers we can support with this. Please know that your contribution has a big impact!

General Update
We are grateful to inform you that:

- Two colleagues work daily in our small office in Kupang. Partly due to the support from the Ministry of Education, we were able to train 37 new teachers there in the past month in the use of the Saya Suka Membaca material.

- This new office in Kupang will serve as a catalyst to reach more schools, teachers and children in this NTT region. We see that there is a need, so we continue to look for opportunities to make our materials available (together with other partners).

- In the coming months we will start preparations for a major project in Kalimantan. A number of about 75 teachers will be trained in the third quarter of this year. This requires a lot of preparation from the team, but at the same time it is also a wonderful opportunity to provide schools in different provinces of Kalimantan with effective reading education.

Jakarta Team
We expanded our team with one colleague in February and will do so again in April. This addition of staff is necessary due to the increasing demand for our materials and mentoring. We are grateful to see that over the past few years our organization has been growing and reaching more and more schools, teachers and children.

Looking forward
The Saya Suka Membaca team has started this new year full of energy. Last year we greatly exceeded our targets, which has given us a huge boost. We are grateful to report that we have been able to train 119 teachers in the past year. The goal for this year is to train 175 teachers, but from the requests so far, we may be reaching that goal in Q3! We hope that this news will also delight you. Together we work on a future until every child in Indonesia can read and loves to read!

Salam literasi,

Stuart Patience
on behalf of the SSM team.

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Nov 4, 2022
Project update (Q4 2022)

By Stuart Patience | Board Member

Dear Supporters,

Thank you for your continued support of this campaign. It is of great significance to us, but especially to all the children and teachers we can support with this. Please know that your contribution has a big impact!

Kupang Update

Our partnership with the Ministry of Education in Kupang is going well. It will serve more than 800 new children this academic year, bringing the total to more than 1700 children. This quarter we've trained 8 new teachers, replacing teachers who were rotated to new positions by the education department or retiring, and our team has conducted more than 40 mentoring visits to remote schools. Other significant developments include:

- We have paid a deposit on a small office in Kupang, another step towards establishing an official branch office for Saya Suka Membaca in Eastern Indonesia so that the team can serve teachers and children more effectively;

- The head teachers of our 20 partner schools have agreed to pay the cost of reproducing activity books for children in their schools. This is a huge endorsement of Saya Suka Membaca, and a boost to the program's sustainability (and the impact of your donations) by more than US$3000.

Jakarta and Beyond

The Jakarta team has also been busy training new teachers, providing SSM training for than 23 teachers in three training events in the last three months. 8 of these were teachers working at a school on the outskirts of Jakarta; 5 were leaders of an organisation with plans to use SSM in Sumba, Eastern Indonesia, in 2023; 10 were teachers from three new partner organisations in Pekanbaru, Riau. A small grant from one of these groups enabled us to provide training more affordably for the other organisations, multiplying the effectiveness of your generous donations.

Plans for 2023

We're so grateful for your support throughout 2022, and are excited to look forward to 2023. Watch out for our end of year social media campaign, where we'll look back at what you've helped us to achieve this year, and share more of our plans for the year ahead.

We wish you and your family all the best as we head into the festive season.

Salam literasi,

Stuart Patience

on behalf of the SSM team.

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Jul 11, 2022
Project Update (Q2 2022)

By Stuart Patience | Board Member

Progress in Kupang

The program in Kupang has been going well, despite reductions in funding from the Ministry Of Education. The field team have just finished collecting endline testing data for the program's first cohort in order to evaluate their progress. Initial results look promising - more in our next update!

More than 940 children are being taught to reading using Saya Suka Membaca materials as a result of this program. You can see the story of one of them, Bryan, by clicking on this link to Youtube.

Teacher Training in Jakarta

At the end of June we delivered three days of training for 9 teachers from across Indonesia at the office of a partner charity in Jakarta. Several of the teachers involved serve in extremely isolated rural communities, so we're very happy to have been able to equip them with the materials they need to teach reading effectively in the field.

You can watch a video of highlights from the training here.

Mentawai Loves Reading

Surfers travel for thousands of miles to experience the world-class waves of the Mentawai islands. Sadly, children living on these beautiful islands have little access to quality education or reading books - in some cases, they don't even have electricity. We're delighted to be partnering with a group of surfers from the U.S. to provide training for teachers at six schools on the island of Siberut, in what we hope will be just the start of a program to serve many more teachers and children across Mentawai.

Thank You

As ever, your donations and other support are vital enablers for this work. Thank you.

With your help, we'll continue to improve the quality of our programs and serve more teachers and children across Indonesia.

Best wishes,

Stuart Patience
Jean Oberlin

Yayasan Tunas Aksara - Saya Suka Membaca

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