Progress Report of Children Learning Community in March 2012

Hello my dearest friends,

Happy Caka New Year 1934 for you who celebrate it.
May we all intend to be more conscious and self-perfection.

In March, the Children Learning Community run well. There’s a holiday on the 4th Friday of March, exactly on March 23rd , 2012 due to Caka New Year 1934.

On Thursday evening, March 8th, 2012, we visited to Ms.Tiny’s house. She is one of the facilitators, who facilitating the children of the 1st category. She gave birth the first babyboy. The facilitators & some children brought a present for Ms.Tiny & the baby before went together at her house.

Congratulation to Ms.Tiny & husband for the new baby born. May you all are always happy to be the parents.


Alternative Learning Activities

a. Cakung Children Community

In March, the learning activities run well. The children of the 0 category increased. & need another table, while the preparation to make it has not finished. The children will learn to make a table, facilitating by a father of one of the children of the 3rd category.

The life-skill activities for the children of the 0 category to the 2nd category were colouring pictures, origami, & sport’s game.

In March, we learn and practice about Love & Affection Value (as part of Living Value Activities). This activity is held every Saturday for a month & from this month we prepare it in team. Usually we have sharing, singing, & meditating. We started with love ourselves. Kak Qori’ah lead it.

The next Saturday, children learned about love others, including parents, brothers-sisters, & friends, who lead by Ester, while the last Saturday of this month, Indri lead the activity about love the environment & the country. We ended The Love & affection Value activities with playing train to the farm area. Every children greet the environment, such as sky, birds, vegetables, soil, chicken, etc. After that, we were back to the tent & singing a nation’ song, Rayuan Pulau Kelapa.


b. Muara Baru Community

The Learning Activities run every Sunday, where we have studying together as well as reading books from our little library.
The activity starts at 10AM and finishes around 2PM. After studying together, the children usually read books and play scrabble.
On the early Sunday of this month, children learning English, facilitating by Ms.Saneri, who just come. The children learned about the part of body. They learned an English song about the part of body.

From this month, we have a new facilitator in Muara Baru. She is Ms.Marisa, who is in charge to facilitate the children in English & Math.

We thank for all the collaboration between the facilitators, the children and residents of Cakung and Muara Baru.

Thanks to Kak Uju, Kak Qori’ah, Kak Uwie, Kak Ari, and Kak Marisa, also Yana, Indri, and Mala.


Library

We open our library on every Wednesdays. Mostly we start it with book registration and numbering, then we put covers on the books.

On this month, the library activities are annual re-registration all the books from 2009 until now. On the 3rd Wednesday of the month, we already done & have arranged all on the bookshelf.

From now on, the reading activity for the children of the 3rd category is in the library room, at the house of activities (which we rent for a year). Usually children read at the learning tent & the team of library activity have to prepare the book. The coordinator of library activity accompany the children while they are in reading activity.

On Friday, March 9th, 2012, Mrs. Margaretha donate reading books for the Children Learning Library. We thank to Mrs. Margaretha for her kindness to support us.


Nutrition Improvement for Children


During March 2012, the nutrition improvement activities run well. Beside drink milk, the healthy menu for this month are bananas, hard-boiled eggs, sweet potatoes, & mixed vegetable with spicy coconut slices. Once again, the menu was prepared by one of the residents, Tia’s mom, at their house. It has done because of Tia’s resident is the nearest from the learning tent.

On the 2nd Saturday of this month, we did not provide healthy menu – except still providing milk – as we celebrated Intan’s younger sister; Fajar’s 3 years old’s birthday. Her family would like to celebrate together with the children by games, singing, cutting birthday cake, eating cake & turmeric rice. The birthday celebration was so special for the family, because after few months, now Fajar has recovered from her TB.

Happy birthday Fajar, we wish you a good health, be a smart & creative girl, and also submissive to the parents. Thank you very much to Intan’s family who would like to share the happiness & provide special menu for the children.

On Sunday, March 18th, 2012, after facilitating at Muara Baru, we visited sanggar akar. We have some groceries, such as rice, sugar, vegetable oil, soap, shampoo, toothpaste & toothbrush. We brough directly to Cakung.

Thank you so much to the board of sanggar akar for supporting the groceries.

We thank to the team who organized it and to Tia’s mom who had prepared the menu for March.


Scholarship


In February, Indri and Mala, both are scholarship recipients who are now in their last grade of their vocational high school, came to help our community on routine basis. They helped after they finished their school and study.

Now, they are involved in facilitating regarding to the schedule, including Yana, their friend, who dropped out in the 2nd grade of the vocational high school. They facilitate from the children of the 0 category to the children of the 2nd category.

There were several routine expenditures for vocational high school students, especially for them who were in the last grade. It was for their tuition fees, exam fees, and photocopy as well as internet rental for searching their study references. Some expenditures for the elementary students, such as English & Indonesian dictionary, school uniform, and stationeries.


April 2012 Activity Plan

1. The Library activity will off for a month, as the coordinator have to prepare the school exam. The life-skill activity will done every Wednesday for this month.

2. To make additional & repair learning desks, also the additional bookshelf. The children of the 3rd category will involve in it regarding the life-skill activity.

3. Days off on the 1st week of April due to Easter celebration.

4. To provide the milk powder in the Nutrition Improvement Program for the children.


Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to all friends who continuously supporting us in their prayers, through donations, materials and time. Without their support, our activities would not be realised.

Thanks to the funds which we use for operating our activities in Children Learning Community. Thanks to Winda, Mrs. Vina, Mr. Arend, Michelle Maramis, Mrs. Hanaria Putri, Mrs. Rina Anwar, Ms.Elissa, Mr. Jahn Schlosser, & Ms. Arry Fitriana.

Again, our sincere thank to all of you. May God bless all of you abundantly and may our collaboration will continue well.

May God bless all of us.


Warmest regards
On behalf of Children Learning Community
Debby


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