Progress Report of Children Learning Community in March 2018

Dear friends,

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Wishing the Hindus a peaceful Nyepi, day of silence, Caka year 1940.  

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Wishing all the Christians, the best of three holy days, Maundy Thursday, Holy Friday and Ressucrection Sunday 2018

 

We were grateful to God and to our loyal friends who supported the children learning community activities throughout March 2018. In both Cakung and Sarang Tupai, Ciawi, the activities ran as usual.

Mrs. Lanny, Mrs. Vera, Mrs. Ruth, Mrs. Tjandra, Rachel, and big sister Debby taught children Sarang Tupai. Meanwhile Mrs. Mar’ah, big brother Amad, big brother David, and big sister Debby taught the children in Cakung.

We thank facilitators, volunteers and surrounding community who relentlessly gave their time, efforts, finances and place for this learning program.

Since March 2018, the activity skill for young women and mothers has been moved to Monday.

So far, young women and mothers are still creatively making products out of coffee packs. Mrs Tjandra taught them weaving.  Then, later on they developed their weaving skill into making dining mats, bowl and glass covers.

Besides weaving, the women and mothers were also knitting. They started making clothes with simple patterns and are gradually moving into making more complicated scarfs.  

Since several years before, the women in Cakung still diligently focus on weaving recycle coffee packs.

In Cakung, the women collect, wash, dry, separate and group dry coffee packs according to the pictures on the packs. It is a long process even before the actual weaving.   We centralized this process in Cakung. 

We usually bring cleaned coffee packs to Sarang Tupai for weaving activity. 

Some Sarang Tupai mothers, voluntarily collect and clean their own recycle coffee packs, but the majority of coffee packs come from Cakung’s facility.

Throughout March, there were several events in the community. We gave our outmost service and support to the community. We always remember them in our prayer.

We are saddened by the passing of big sister Ari’s father in the middle of March 2018. For several months, big sister Ari was given leave of absence from our activity to attend her sick father.

We sympathized and attended the funeral. Our deepest taught and prayer to the family. We pray for forgiveness and final resting place in the Lord’s home. 

In March, we fulfill the needs of scholarship recipients such as photocopies of school materials, school supplies, shoes, school needs and school fees for boarding school recipients, school activity fees and routine school transportation allowance. 

We also need to prepare for some recipients who are willing to go to higher schools.

Some parents already asked our assistance for their children to go to middle schools and vocational high schools.

We hope for our respected donors’ positive response.

We thank our loyal donor who support this program. Your support is valuable for children’s future.

Throughout March 2018, we prepared various healthy meals for Cakung’s and Sarang Tupai’s children. We made cookies, green bean soup with cuts of banana, “duku”, (small ball sized local fruits), hamburger with egg, oranges, mangosteen, tofu with vegetable filled, seafood egg rice noodle, peanut spicy sauce, shrimp crackers, fried banana and fried soybean slice.    

Sarang Tupai’s community prepared “rujak”, peanut sauce fruit salad and “lontong sayur”, packed steam rice fill with vegetable sautéed wrap with pandan leaves. Mrs Tjandra prepared “opor ayam”, coconut milk chicken soup, packed steam rice, fried flour wrapped vegetable and cookies.  

 

We thank Mrs. Tjandra for preparing meals for Sarang Tupai’s children. We also thank the facilitators and the community of Cakung and Sarang Tupai for preparing healthy meals for Cakung’s and Sarang Tupai’s children throughout March 2018.

Kartini cooperative effort ran well. Community also spare their time to purchase their grocery at the cooperative after learning session.

We thank our dedicated and loyal friends who support this program.

We wish for longevity of this program.

April 2018 Plan:

1.                Learning Activity

a.   At the end of April, Cakung’s and Sarang Tupai’s children will be reviewed on their learning subjects and informal skill development.

2.                Scholarship

a.   Provide school needs for recipients.

3.                Staple Food Cooperative Effort

Purchase out of stock food.

We are grateful to our friends for their support in prayers, finances, efforts and materials for this month.

We are deeply touched by many of our donors’ generosity who put others before themselves. We truly appreciate your trust in our effort.

We thank the donors for recycled coffee packs donations and for the healthy food donation to Sarang Tupai’s children. 

We thanked our donors for their financial support. Your donations were valuable for daily operational of this program.

Thank you very much to Jason and Mr.David for your kindness in translating this report. 

We thanked you for your loyalty, commitment, trust and your warm friendship.

May the Lord grant you with healthy body and financial blessings. Thank you for your contribution to the program.

We are called to bring peace and welfare to the world.

God bless us all.

For monthly activity report, please visit us at: http://cakungchildrencommunity.blogspot.com.

To order teenagers’ and mothers’ crafting product, please kindly look us at: http://cakungchildrencreation.blogspot.com.

Warm regards,

On behalf of the Children Learning Community,

Debby 

P.S.
To place your donation through the bank.

Account holder : Debby Maitimu or Dwi Resmi Sari
Bank                  : BCA Branch office Matraman, East Jakarta, Indonesia
Account no.       : 342-2792161

Swift code         : cenaidja

Feel free also to contact me at +628129685594 or childrenlearningcommunity@gmail.com for any supporting documents and materials.