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YCAB Foundation and Opera Software together, officially launched Browse For Change program on October 22nd, 2013 at Patio Function House. Browse For Change aims to facilitate underprivileged and school dropped-out children to attain primary education. The program invites millions of internet users in Indonesia to participate on this program from October 22nd, 2013 to January 21st, 2014 through downloading Opera Mini from micropage.opera.com/bfc and browsing at least one time. Opera will donate Rp 1,000 for every download and browsing activity to support 22 YCAB House of Learning Development (HOLD) across Indonesia. Opera records that Indonesia is home to the second largest Opera users in the world, and thus Opera has deep concerns to contribute to the Indonesian citizen. Through this program, as part of Opera’s CSR agenda, Opera wishes to deliver token of appreciation to Indonesian people.

Muhammad Iman Usman, one of YCAB Foundation staffs, an Indonesian non-profit organization that promotes economic empowerment for Indonesian women, conveyed his ideas in preparing future Indonesian young generations to take charge with Indonesia’s political endeavor. Reportedly in BBC News on October 17th, 2013, by Karishma Vaswani, citing some other sources, many young Indonesians seem “politically […]

Founded by Veronica Colondam in 1999, YCAB Foundation has developed into one of the country’s leading social enterprises, with a strong focus on providing economic assistance and education opportunities to empower young people in Indonesia. YCAB currently conducts three main programmes: HeLP, HoLD, & HOpE. To keep up with the increased scope of its operations, […]

On October 10th, 2013, Veronica Colondam, founder of YCAB Foundation, a Jakarta based non-profit organization that aims to provide economic assistance and education provision to empower Indonesian youths, delivered her opinion regarding Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo’s plan to relocate a million people to low-cost modern housing. Though the plan seems able to mitigate the human […]

Continuing the collaboration between YCAB Foundation and Johnson Home Hygiene Product (JHHP), on 4th September, 2013 a scholarship handover ceremony was held at Rumah Belajar Duri Kepa involving 30 selected students of Paket C (as well as Senior High School). The partnership with JHHP, running since last year, includes the donation of 3,000 pairs of […]

Prominent fashion designer Sebastian Gunawan, also known as Seba, revealed his new collection at the Grand Ballroom of Hotel Mulia in Central Jakarta on 3rd September, 2013. The blossoming partnership between Seba and YCAB has been going strong since 2005. Included in all his fashion shows since then – Classic Divine (2005), Rendezvouz (2006), Sweet […]

Angel of Change is an annual YCAB social fundraising event. Angel of Change was launched in 2009 to inspire individuals and companies in Indonesia to invest in the education of Indonesian children. We believe by providing education for the underprivileged youths and those who dropped out of school, we will be able to help break […]

Standard Chartered Bank, celebrating it’s 150th year in Indonesia, joins with legendary Liverpool FC (LFC) midfielder, Dietmar “Didi” Hamann and YCAB Foundation in educating 400 senior high school (SMAK) students about HIV/AIDS in Penabur, Bandung, part of the “Living with HIV” campaign. A total of 40 Standard Chartered Bank employees participated as volunteers in this […]

On May 23rd 2013, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection collaborated together to hold Financial Literacy Program for women. This event was a part of celebrating the 150th anniversary of SCB in Indonesia, which also included economic training program for 100 women from YCAB Foundation Cooperative by SCB employees. […]

In commemoration of National Awakening Day, Sucorinvest together with YCAB gave a campaign for students at SMK Purnama, themed Drugs Prevention for Better Future: Elo. Gue. Sehat! On this occasion, some employees of Sucorinvest took part as the trainers together with 20 students from SMK Purnama who already trained before. Market Development SBSN – Direktorat […]

On May 15th 2013, Microsoft Indonesia with ASEAN Foundation collaborated together to hold Microsoft NGO Connection Day to bring together developmental advocates to advance NGO programs through increased access and use of ICT with this year’s theme: “Utilizing Technology for Improving Social and Economic Development.” Through this program, local NGOs were able to learn from […]

As we remember, last year Scott Thompson completed his 1,250 km charity run from Bali to Jakarta for 25 days and raised about 3,8 billion for YCAB Foundation and Mary Cancer Kiddies. Then, as our gratitude, on November 2012 we launched the first Rumah Belajar of Scott Thompson in Kintamani, Bali. This year, the second […]