In May 2014 SEEDS professionals partnered with local organisation Yayasan Pendar Pagi to hold a community open day in a densely populated urban area of Jakarta.
Family at the heart of the community
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Rehabilitating a House
The SEEDs partnership with local Indonesian organisation Yayasan Pendar Pagi includes the placement of professionals in a rural Riau region of Sumatra. Collaborating with a local builder, workers recently completed the rehabilitation of a home for an elderly widow in one village.
Reading program in Riau
SEEDS members working in the Riau province of Sumatra have established the “I Love Reading” program in four elementary schools located in a remote village setting where illiteracy is still a common problem.
Assisting Poor Families with University Education
In mid 2013 a SEEDS initiative was introduced to assist poor families who could not afford to send their children to university. The initiative began with support for three young adults. One of these was a man named Abdur, from a village around 40 minutes outside of Pekanbaru, the capital city of the Riau province of Sumatra.
Shelter from the Torrential Rain
During 2013 SEEDS, working with its partner national organisation in Indonesia, Yayasan Pendar Pagi, was able to part-finance a loan for three families in the village with whom we have had long-term connections, enabling them to carry out essential renovations to their homes.
Training in New Technologies that Brighten the Future
Recently a SEEDS member conducted two training days for both bachelor and master students on using up-to-date technology for integrated chip (IC) design. The training was held at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, Indonesia. Students in East Indonesia have little access to new technologies such as IC design which could bring a major boost for developing new industries and create jobs for graduates.
Fighting Poverty with Chicken Coops
Finding sustainable ways to help impoverished families can be difficult. SEEDs workers are identifying families that are unable to find regular work due to poor health, age, or other limiting factors. SEEDs workers desire to empower these families with the means to supplement their income with home-raised chickens.
Walking with a community through health and life
It meant death not to amputate, but to see the mourning of a teenager for his hand was hard. Here, the loss of Mansur’s hand means a loss not only of his dreams of owning a motorbike and being the best goal keeper, but of productivity and being an integral part of society.
A Brighter Future for Sumatra’s Fishermen
More than half of all fishing households in beautiful Betel-Nut village in West Sumatra are poor according to government statistics. Ongoing research with poor fishermen and their families is unearthing the causes of this poverty. “Basic infrastructure such as a good road, coupled with a senior high school would go a long way to giving fishers the leg up that they need” one local leader reported. “We don’t want handouts, just the opportunity to compete fairly”.
Creative Reading program launched in Jakarta
In July 2013 a group of excited children in inner-city Jakarta registered for the first ever summer ‘Creative Hour’ program in their area. Forty six to 12 year-olds took part in the summer club which ran for six days during the month of Ramadan, while schools were closed. Short term volunteers designed and led a fun-packed program on the theme “Our colourful world”, collaborating with long term colleagues already working in the area.