Progress Report of Children Learning Community in October 2018

Dear friends,

We were grateful to God and to our loyal friends who supported the children learning community activities throughout October 2018. The activities run smoothly at Cakung and Sarang Tupai, Ciawi. 

Children Learning Community has been running continuously since 2006. We are grateful to our faithful donors and to all our dear friends who support us. 

We come to the closing of 2018. The Children Learning Community has been blessed with financial supports, material donations for the children, committed efforts from volunteers and community. Due to lack of time and short of funds, we manage to prioritize the most important activity first, pushing back some activities for the coming months. There are several activities that need to be postponed. 

Up to this moment, we only succeed up to 56% of total budget. Since there are several unavoidable financial commitments to the children, we had to squeeze our way through the available fund. We hope to close this year with several priority activities and commitments. 

We still need your help to fulfill our responsibility to the children until the end of fiscal year 2018. 

Children are in debt to our committed friends and kind donors. They have given these children opportunity to grow to be smart, independent and virtuous citizens.  

 

In October 2018, we attended several Cakung’s and Ciawi’s community events.

In the beginning of October 2018, with his family, we celebrated a Ciawi’s child Muslim commencement. 

The celebration holds at the villa where learning taken place. 

Together, parents and children are excited attending the event.

At the end of September 2018, we visited Cakung’s resident who just came out of a spinal surgery. 

After a few months went back and forth using limited state health insurance, she finally had a chance for surgery. Everything was covered by the insurance except medications. She had to pay for all medication that was prescribed. 

 

We were glad to see her home with her family.

We talked to her children. Although she will be better soon but she will not able to do her usual occupation as cake and food vendor or as a house maid at people’s home.  

We wish Holil a fast recovery after Muslim commencement and Mrs. Hasnah a fast recovery after her surgery. 

 

There were also four High Scope middle school students who completed their school assignment by doing community service for 12 hours assisting children at Cakung Learning facility.  

In doing their assignments four students were grouped into two. They came every consecutive Saturday in September to October 2018.    

At the end of their assignment, the first group had returned earlier but the other group, Tanaya and Calya bid farewell to the children by distributing cookies and milk. Children enjoyed the cookies with warm chocolate milk. 

The children thanked these four middle school High Scope students, Tanaya, Tabina, Jasmine, and Calya for helping them study. They also appreciated their treat of cookies, cakes and snacks that were given after studying.

Children and facilitators expressed their gratitude as well apologizing for their behavior during learning. We also expressed our regrets for any short comings during their time with us.  

We hope for continuous relationship.

Meanwhile, other activities in Cakung and Ciawi ran well throughout October 2018.

In category zero, children learned alphabet by reciting it together with the facilitator and eventually in time reciting it individually.

They learned words and recited simple sentences.

The children took turns to write on the board. After that, children recited their own handwriting. They also recited words out of reading section in their text book.

Mrs. Lanny, Mrs. Ruth, and Mrs. Vera accompanied the children.

Children at age of 10 to 13 learned with big sister Lenny, Jagad’s mother, and big sister Debby.

  

The mothers also did their handy craft such as knitting small wallet and making place mat out of recycle coffee packs. 

In October, Cakung’s children were accompanied by Mrs. Mar’ah, big sister Indri, big brother Ludo, and big sister Debby. In Sarang Tupai, children were accompanied by big sister Lenny, Mrs. Ruth, Mrs. Vera, Mrs. Lanny, Jagad’s mother, and big sister Debby.

We thanked facilitators, volunteers and surrounding community who gave their time, efforts, finances and facility for this learning program.

In the month of October, we fulfilled scholarship recipients’ need such as monthly school fees, school transportation, school supplies, photocopies fee and monthly school activity.  

We thank loyal donors who relentlessly providing us with scholarship assistance. Your support is valuable for these children’s future.

In Cakung and Sarang Tupai, the healthy menu of October 2018 include cookies, warm hot chocolate, fruit punch, mango chocolate pudding, mangoes, rice dish, snake fruit, steam bread fruit, fruit salad, and dry spinach crackers.   

Entering the rainy seasons, we also enjoyed harvesting mangoes. In Cakung and Ciawi, the children enjoyed mango fruits and chocolate pudding with chunk of mangoes in it.  

Together with Ciawi’s community, we prepared various dishes. We prepared rise dish and sautéed salty fish; sautéed anchovy and jengkol; chili paste; tempe ; boiled papaya leaves and cassava leaves; with cucumber and  various garden vegetables and plants from community’s yard.  

We also thank facilitators Cakung’s and Sarang Tupai’s community for their effort in preparing the healthy menu throughout October 2018. 

Cakung’s children thank big sister Tanaya and Calya for cookies and snacks. 

Throughout October 2018, “Kartini” saving and loan cooperative effort ran well.

Cakung’s community spared their time to purchase their grocery at the cooperative after learning session.

We received payment from Cakung’s community on time. We purchased a few basic needs in the middle of October 2018.

We thank our loyal friends for their support.

We wish for longevity of this program.

November and December 2018 Plan:

1.                Learning Activity

a.   Third Quarter Review at the end of November 2018.

b.   Ciawi’s mothers will do the knitting and continue with making goods out of recycled coffee packs.  Cakung’s mothers will do the entire production of recycle goods. They wash the used recycle packs and make the goods out of them. They also made ornaments to be sold during Christmas session.  

c.   In December 2018, Cakung’s children will receive guidance about bullying. Ciawi’s children will receive guidance in sex education.

2.                Scholarship

a.   Fulfill Elementary, Middle School, High School and Vocational High School recipients’ school needs and supplies.

3.                Staple Needs Cooperative Effort

Purchase out of stock items.

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 big sister Ari for clothing and recycle coffee pack donations.

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

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

We thank for your loyalty, commitment, trust and warm friendship.

May the Lord grant you with healthy body and financial blessings. We hope for your continuous work together.

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, WhatsAp +6288210537251 or childrenlearningcommunity@gmail.com for any supporting documents and materials.