2020 was a year of tremendous disruption for the world, and Indonesia was no exception. The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in school closures and the cancellation of all in-person teacher training and mentoring for SEEDS partner Yayasan Tunas Aksara and the Saya Suka Membaca (I Love Reading) program.

As a result, the team turned its attention online, making a series of online videos that teachers can use as a reference for how to teach reading, and that parents and children can use to practice reading at home. The team started off using the cameras on their smartphones but quickly learned how to improve the quality of the picture, sound and presentation in the videos, eventually producing more than forty videos in 2020, and making them freely available via YouTube (see link below).

Since the start of the pandemic, the Saya Suka Membaca videos have been watched more than 11,000 times, helping teachers and parents to learn new techniques to teach their children to learn to read, and to love reading – the foundation of education.

The Yayasan Tunas Aksara team is looking forward to getting back into the field in 2021.

For more information visit www.sayasukamembaca.org