Quality Education for Children in Indonesia

Dear friends and supporters,

Happy New Year!

We wish you a new year filled with peace, joy, and prosperity! We survived 2020 and thrived because of your continued support. We were able to exceed our goals and expand our services because of the generosity and commitment of people like you.

As we begin this new year, we are thrilled to inform you that Yayasan Usaha Mulia's project  https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-promote-good-reading-habits-in-kalimantan/  has been chosen as GlobalGiving's Project of the Month for January 2021! Our project to enhance the quality of literacy and education in Central Kalimantan was duly selected from a pool of more than 5,000 nonprofit projects in 170+ countries. Nearly 3,000 donors come together and make monthly donations to keep the Project of the Month going. This extra support means the world to us—and to the children living in Bukit Batu, Central Kalimantan. 

The project in Central Kalimantan is similar to the one you are supporting in Cipanas, West Java. YUM continues to facilitate small group learning sessions by providing tutoring activities for primary school students who struggle in reading, writing, and math. In Cipanas, with the collaboration of 3 schools and 9 teachers in the area, YUM has run tutoring sessions for almost 100 students. Meanwhile in Bukit Batu, due to the vast area and lack of transportation from home to YUM's premises, we were only able to support 1 school, 3 teachers, and 50 students. But we are optimistic that we will be able to reach out to more students in the area as more schools participate in this program. Hopefully, by the end of this year, we will be able to achieve our target to ensure children in rural areas keep learning and achieve basic reading, writing, and maths.

We look forward to continuing our efforts and reaching out for more children to help this year and we can only do so with your continued compassion and generous support. 

Sincerely, 

Yolanda

Project Leader

Dear kind donors,

As schools are still closed since March, more and more children have learning difficulties since most of them have to learn on their own. In rural areas of Indonesia, where parents are working all day and/or have low levels of education, they are unable to support their children’s learning. 

With your donation, we are facilitating small group learning sessions and providing tutoring activities for primary school students who struggle in reading, writing, and math. The tutoring classes run every afternoon. Each group has a maximum of 5 students taught by 1 tutor. They attend classes twice a week and the lesson goes for one and a half hours. 

These learning activities also extend to schools in the area whereby the students are tutored by their school teacher. Once a week a group of 10 students either gather at their teacher's home or at one of the student's homes to attend two hours of ‘face to face’ class. Your donation supports school materials for these students and an incentive for the teacher as part of the tutoring program. 

In our own facilities, the activity takes place in the library so kids are free to use any of its properties in order to support their learning process. YUM is very strict with the Covid-19 prevention protocol. All visitors, including the children, must wear a mask, wash their hands, have their body temperature checked, and maintain social distancing.  At times, it’s a challenge for our tutor to constantly remind the children to keep their masks on and keep a distance from one to another during the session.

On a final note, we will be participating in this year’s #GivingTuesday campaign on GlobalGiving. We’d love you to join us and donate to this project because GlobalGiving has $1,000,000 in matching funds for all donations received on December 1st! Will you help us provide more tutoring classes to children living in rural areas?

In solidarity, 

Yolanda