Progress Report of Children Learning Community in November 2014

Dear friends,

In November 2014, the alternative education of Children Learning Community ran well. The children, the team, and I are so grateful for your prayer and support.

​On the 1st week of November 2014, to be exact on Wednesday, November 5th, the Children Learning Community welcomed the 5th semester students and the teacher of Fashion Design Binus International university. They visited us to follow the workshop of recycling creations.

For few hours, we exchange the knowledge and skill together. The students and the teacher explained us how to make the simple pattern for making bag and other creations.

The mothers and the teenagers of Cakung taught step by step how to make a recycling bag from coffee sachets. Begin with sorting, cleaning, and ready to make by folding and weaving to be a hand bag.

The students were very enthusiastic to learn. They learned in some small groups with a teenager of Cakung as their mentor.

After learning, they saw the creation and many of them bought the creations. It’s so helpful, especially for the teenagers and the mother’s saving. We hope it could rise their spirit to be more productive and have some savings for their family need.

We thank so much for the visiting of the students and the teachers, especially to Mrs. Julita Oetojo and Mrs. Indira and other teachers of Fashion Design Binus International University. May our collaboration will continue well.

A day after, on November 6th, 2014, some youth of Magis group, Ms. Melita and Ms. Carla as the committee of live-in program, visited us in the learning house. They met us and explained about their planning to do live-in program in Cakung for the member of Magis. We went to some houses of Cakung residents and introduced them to know the real life in Cakung.

On Thursday morning, November 13th until Saturday afternoon, November 15th, 2014, we welcomed two members of Magis, Ms. Christine and Ms. Anggi. Each of them learned to work and knew the reality of the family in Cakung from morning til afternoon and took a rest in the learning house.

On Saturday afternoon, November 15th, 2014, they followed the learning activity with the children before they back to the group.
Thank you very much for Magis member’s visiting. Hopefully the real experience could give the meaning and enrich their spirituality. Thank you very much for the support and trust of Magis and may our collaboration will continue well.

In early til mid November 2014, we moved all things and renovated some parts of the previous learning house. On Saturday, November 8th, 2014, we moved to another house gradually. Three men of Cakung residents and some facilitators together moved all big furnitures. The activity continued on Sunday, November 9th, 2014 until next week. We put in order the small stuffs into the shelves, while some people were cleaning and renovating the previous house.

On Friday, November 21st, 2014, the children began to learn in the new learning house. It’s just two houses from the previous house. The new house is smaller but we can feel the nuance of arrangement. This second story house is more efficient so we can arrange the learning activities better. The children of the group of 0 category learn in the front room and there is a small computer room behind while the other children learn in the second story.

On Monday, November 24th, 2014, a friend who is a volunteer of health division in Africa, Dr. Frans Senff visited us in the learning house. He met some facilitators, a lady and her grandson who live in and take care the learning house. In 2012, about two years ago, he visited us in Cakung.

We are so thankful for his attention and support. Hopefully, his visit encourage us to do this service better and may our collaboration will continue well.

Alternative Learning Activities

a. Cakung Children Community

In November 2014, the learning activities ran well.

There are 5 children from the nearby environment involved in the activities this month. A child is in the group of category 0, 2 children are in the group of category 1, and the others are in the group of category 2.

For few months, the children of the group of category 3, age 12 above decreased until no one come. The decreasing of numbers of teenagers even increasing the numbers of early aged children and pre-teen. On this year, more early aged children and young mothers involved. The mothers learn skill activities and gather in the income generating program.

Few weeks before the end of November 2014, Sr. Agustina, BKK whose called Ms. Tina, a friend who helped us in doing pioneering works in Cakung, has started again to support us in children learning every Friday.

We are so glad and thankful for her attention and support.

The joy and the innocent of the children who irreplaceable in times lead us through the sweet memories of the children freedom when they learned in the field area to the fullest stage of the real life today.

In the end of November 2014, to be exact on Saturday, November 29th, 2014, we closed the learning activity by holding the 3rd quarterly learning evaluation. More children followed it and some couldn’t.

The evaluation ran well and all the Friday and Saturday facilitators came. We share the task, giving evaluation and accompanying the others learning.

Thank you very much for all the children and the facilitators. Hopefully the year-end spirits bring a better achievement in the coming year.

The life-skill activity for teenagers and mothers in Cakung done together with the arrangement of the things in the new house. On this month, they still focused in producing the creation from the coffee sachettes, paper quilling creation, beads creation, and baking biscuits for Christmas and New Year’s parcel.

We were so thankful for the attention and support of the community of Ursulin Sister in Juanda in collecting the coffee sachettes and the ladies of Cakung residents as well. We hope our collaboration will sustainable well.

We are gladly receiving your plastic garbages for supporting the income generating program for the teenagers and the mothers of Children Learning Community. Together we move the action of reduce, reuse, and recycled the plastic garbages.

b. Muara Baru Community

In this month, the learning activities ran on the week I and V.

The learning activity has done in three groups, the first group (age 5 – 7 years old) is for the children who can’t fluently reading, writing, and counting, accompanied by Ms. Debby, the second group (age 7 – 10 years old) who usually has assignment in counting and writing all the vocabularies sorted alphabetically accompanied by Tino and Ms. Thesa by turn, and the last group from 11 to 13 years old children participants accompanied by Ms. Indri.

We were glad for the children’s enthusiasm and the Muara Baru parents’ support.

We thank all the collaborative works of the facilitators, the volunteer, the children, and the residents of Cakung and Muara Baru, especially to Mrs Herda, Ms Thesa, Ms Uju, Ester, Tino, Mohandri, Indri, Ms. Tina, and the children coordinator programs.

Bibliotheque

The administration of library activities in this month was arranging the library books in the shelves. The team did them for few days helping by all the facilitators and the other team & programs.

Now, the books are classified in annual order in every shelf.

Thank you very much for the perseverance of the coordinator and her team to do the assignment.

Nutrition Improvement Program for Children

In November 2014, the program activities ran well.

Besides drinking milk every Saturday, the healthy menus were hardboiled eggs, watermelon, rice flour porridge with caramel sauce, and fruit salad.

On the first Friday of November 2014, the team prepared watermelon after the children learning. Washing hands requirement has done before eating. The children sang together while the healthy menu distributed.

On the second Saturday of November 2014, the team prepared hardboiled eggs, which the children usually eaten with soyasauce or sprinkle salt.
As usual every Saturday, after drink milk, the learning activity begin and end with eat the healthy menu.

On the third Friday of November 2014, the children enjoyed rice flour porridge with caramel sauce after learning, while on the fourth Saturday of November 2014, after the children learning evaluation, while listening the result and the evaluation of the facilitators, the children enjoyed fruit salad. There were pineapples, watermelon, melon, mangoes, apple, with lemon juice adding with milk custard as substitute for mayonnaise which not all of the children like it. It rised the spirit of the children to eat the rich vitamin menu.

Thank you very much to the team who organised the healthy menus and cooked them in November 2014.

Children Scholarship

In November 2014, the donation used to provide the children’ school need, such as copy learning materials, computer service, monthly swimming fee, monthly class fee, karate clothes with accessories for a child who need support, class assignment fee, and the students weekly accommodation.

To follow the semester examination, the vocational high school students have to pay the school fee until December 2014 so we provide it and the semester examination fee as well for a vocational high school student.

The scholarship students followed the English class every Monday at 6 PM in November 2014. The program is either improving their English and their confidence in speaking English or increasing their responsibility to teach English to the younger children in the 2nd and 3rd categories. In this month, the teacher came to the learning house.

Finally, we are so grateful to our friends who would like to support the program regularly. We hope the collaboration will continue well and become the worth provide for the children’s fullest potential in the future.

December 2014 Activity Plans

1. Learning Activities


a. Early sex education for all the children on Friday, December 19th, 2014 in the learning house in Cakung, supported by the postgraduate students of Psychology faculty of University of Indonesia.
b. Leadership training for all the facilitator on Saturday, December 20th, 2014 in the learning house, lead by Mrs. Alvieni.
c. The evaluation and the schedule of programs and curriculum on December 13th – 18, 2014.
d. The life-skill activities as substitute for the learning activities which ended on Saturday, November 29th, 2014. It is focusing on paper quilling cards, coffee sachettes creations such as handbags, purse, bags for drinking bottle, and coaster for glasses and bowls, bead creation such as rosary, also baking biscuits for Christmas parcels.

2. Children Scholarship

a. Campus Comparative Study on December 7th – 11th, 2014 in Yogyakarta for a student of the 5th semester.
b. Semester examination on December 1st – 8th and 4th – 12th, 2014 for all the scholarship student in high school and vocational high school.
c. Semester examination on December 8th – 13th, 2014 for the students of elementary and junior high schools.
d. English class every Monday afternoon in the learning house and in the teacher’s house until Monday, December 15th, 2014.


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.

Thank you for all the donors who truly care others above their interest, respect us and appreciate for what we have done.

Thank you very much to Jason and Justin for supporting book covers and student books, and Sr. Agustina, BKK for supporting notebooks and stationeries. Thank you for the support of the community of Ursulin Sister in Juanda in collecting the coffee sachettes for life-skill activities in Cakung.

Thank you abundantly for the funds which are worthy for operating our activities in Children Learning Community. Special thanks to Ms. Jenny, Ms. Sofia Erlinda Indra, Ms. Elissa Meiliana Wiguna, Mrs. Djiauw Swie Tjing, Mrs. Hanaria Putri, Mr. Arif Budi Subekti – Mrs. Maria, Dr. Frans Senff, Ms. Meltari Daruningtyas, Magis Group, and Ms. Arry Fitriana.
Again, our sincere thanks to all of you. May God bless all of you abundantly and may our collaboration will continue well. We are chosen to share and serve others.

Our monthly progress report could be accessed on our blog : http://cakungchildrencommunity.blogspot.com

The production of Cakung teenagers creation could be accessed on our blog : http://cakungchildrencreation.blogspot.com.


Warmest regards,
On behalf of Children Learning Community
Debby



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