Dearest friends,
Thank you very much for all of your attention and support to the Children Learning Community so the activities could run well in October 2012.
In early October, exactly on Saturday, Oct 6th, 2012, we had visitors, friends of alumna St. Ursula high school ’88. They visited and talked to know our and the people of Cakung’s activities. They have plan to hold some collaboration activities.
The children showed their creation, such as life-skill creation and salted egg which they make regularly every week. After the guests visited the Cakung people’s farm area, the children performed their dance learning Rampak Gendang and playing some songs by recorder instrument.
Thank you very much to the friends of Alumna St. Ursula High School who would like to visit us and bring some biscuits. We hope our collaboration could run sustainly.
In mid-October 2012, we have donation to provide the learning equipments from Mr.Mehdi and Mrs.Margareth Laftavi. To increase the spirit of the children’s learning, we bought multi function equipments of tape recorder-DVD player-radio. Now, children could enjoy some CD and English lesson’s cassettes which kept for a long time in the library.
Thank you very much for Laftavi family’s attention and support which meant so much for improving the children’s ability and knowledge. We hope our collaboration could run well and sustain.
Also in Mid-October 2012, we visited Ms. Eka who was in hospital. Ms. Eka is one of our faithful friends since Komunitas Anak Cakung was developing. She is one of our donor who sometime accompany her Marsudirini Elementary students to Cakung children community.
We pray for Ms. Eka for recovering and starting her teaching activities after long leave til mid-November 2012.
As we have October 2012’s schedule to raise fund for the operational activities of Children Learning Community, we followed the bazaar at Salvator Church, Slipi, West Jakarta. The bazaar conducted by the Young Catholics Club for raising fund for their activities from the week III of October 2012 until the end of November 2012. We have some space to sell our product and children’s creation.
It supports us in raising fund and promoting the children’s creation. During October 2012, our famous products are salted egg, beats creation, and some knitting’s creation.
We were glad and thankful to Ms. Lucy Wenehen and the board for their attention and support. May our collaboration run well and sustain.
In mid-September 2012, we found the good location for the permanent learning activities for the children. It is a small house in the 400m2 land near the old location of the learning tent and not so far from the rent house for learning. It is 810 million rupiahs which is so expensive for us who still have less savings. We need the permanent place for the learning activities of the children, while at the end of November we have to rent another house because the owner intend to sell it.
We plan to have the permanent place for learning and for the long term projection to legalize it as a foundation.
We hope you all understand the situation and would like to support us.
Alternative Learning Activities
Now, the learning activities at Cakung are four days in a week. Every Tuesday and Thursday, we accompany the children at Cakung farm area, while every Friday and Saturday at the Learning House.
The learning activities at Muara Baru is every Sunday.
a. Cakung Children Community
In October 2012, the learning activities could run well.
The facilitating of learning are done by the young facilitators who are projected to accompany children to learn. The young facilitators are the children participants at the Learning House and now learn to teach the younger children.
As human being who have moral responsibility, in the early stage, children learn to understand their task and the purpose of their life by developing the habit of cooperation, tolerance, serving and caring every God’s creature well.
Every Friday, the reading library book program is for the children of the 2nd and 3rd categories. After the activities, we give them task according to the ability of the category. For the children of the 2nd category, after reading books, usually the children retold the story, and after that, we make some sentences based on their reading and read off so the children could learn to write. While for the children of the 3rd category, they learn to write in narrative way.
The life-skill activity is regularly done every Tuesday, on the same day of the library administrative task. This activity is in different level from the activities every Friday because the products are for the income accelerating program for the children savings. You could see their productions at their blog; http://cakungchildrencreation.blogspot.com.
b. Muara Baru Community
In October 2012, the learning activity run well, accompanied by two facilitators.
Before learning, the children clean the house well. We divide the children in two groups as well as in Cakung farm area. While we provide some equipments according to their needs and they keep it at one of the children's home. It is done because there are some activities beside learning activity in it.
At last Sunday of October 2012, after learning, the children accompanied by the facilitators went to the beach at Muara Baru. They enjoyed the togetherness. Although they live near the sea, they seldom went there, moreover no guards.
We thank all the collaborative works between the facilitators, the volunteers, the children and residents of Cakung and Muara Baru, especially to Mrs. Herda, Yana, Indri, Riska, Ms. Uju, Mrs. Mar’ah, and the children coordinator program.
Bibliotheque
In October 2012, the activity was covering on the books supported last month.
Until the end of October 2012, the total of the registrated books in 2012 are 678.
The presentation of the children reading books is every Saturday based on what their read every Friday. Each children should prepare themselves by summarizing their reading and presenting a day after. We hope all children have knowledge by listening and speaking.
Children are giving speech with pictures from the books, when all of the children drink milk before learning. We have many encyclopedia so during this month, the children still read encyclopedia.
Nutrition Improvement Program for Children
In October 2012, the nutrition improvement activities run well.
Besides drinking milk, the healthy menu for this month was hard-boiled egg, watermelon, bread with chocolate jam, and steamed corn.
The variety of healthy menu also based on the beginning of the rainy season which there are more fruits harvest, especially watermelon in Cakung. The team chose it as the healthy menu on the 2nd Saturday of October 2012.
We thank the team who organised it and to the mothers who had prepared the menu for October 2012.
Scholarship Program
In this month, the needs of some learning materials for the elementary and university students increased. They were such as student books and copy learning materials. Beside that, a university student need accommodation during her time at campus, where she has to prepare to go to campus in the early morning before the traffic jam and go home in the evening in the traffic jam condition as well.
Thank you very much to our friends who would like to support the program regularly. We hope the collaboration will continue well and worthy for the children future.
November 2012 Activity Plan :
1. Finding the rent house for the children learning.
2. Fund raising by marketing the community production.
3. Providing the needs of learning activities, bibliotheque, nourishment improvement, and scholarship programs.
4. Regular learning activities on the 3rd quarter (September – early December 2012).
Every end of Saturday of the month, we hold the meeting cooperation organization which involved the women of Cakung community. In October 2012, we have 1 new participant and now the total is 14. In cooperation, we could buy share and borrow it for every parents need, including the household and running their business.
In this month, we voted the new team. Mrs. Mar’ah as the coordinator, Mrs. Erni as the treasurer, while the previous team, Mrs. Sutini and Mrs. Siti as the cash box and the key holders, so we hope the process of learning could run well, assisted by the previous team.
Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to all friends who sustainably supporting us in their prayers, donations, materials and time. Without your support, our activities would not be realized.
Thanks for the biscuits from Mrs. Widya Yohanes and friends of alumna St. Ursula High School, tape recorder-DVD player-radio from Mr.Mehdi and Mrs.Margareth Laftavi, also for some secondhand clothes from Sr. Annunciata, OSU.
Thanks for the funds which are used for our activities in Children Learning Community. Special thanks to Mr.Arif – Mrs. Maria, Ms. Elissa, Mrs. Vina – Mr.Arend - Michelle Maramis, Mrs. Rina Anwar, Mrs. Ciske Simanjuntak, and Ms. Arry Fitriana.
Our monthly progress report could be accessed in our blog : http://cakungchildrencommunity.blogspot.com
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
P.S.
You could give donation via bank:
Acc.holder Debby Maitimu or Dwi Resmi Sari
BCA Branch office Matraman, East Jakarta, Indonesia
Acc.no.342-2792161
Swift code : cenaidja
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