In commemorating Woman’s Day 2013, ANZ employee Hanie shares her skills in making jewelries to students at Rumah Belajar Dorkas, WTC Mangga Dua. Here’s the story told from her eyes. “Thank you YCAB Foundation for the opportunity that has been given to me to know and share a little bit of my life with friends […]
Publications
Rumah Belajar & Me: My Time with YCAB
Dear Ibu, It’s been a long and winding journey since I first join YCAB in 2003. It has been a life changing experience, especially when you entrusted me to lead Rumah Belajar YCAB. At first I was afraid knowing that I’m not really a good student back when I was still in junior high and […]
The Flip Side
FOREWORD by Veronica Colondam Inspiring young people to care and do something for others is what we, adults, need to do. The writers of these articles are teenagers who are not afraid to step out of their comfort zones to embrace the flip side of Jakarta’s glitter – poverty that exists right next to where […]
Shena’s Reflection
We started the program with a briefing about the survey we were going to do. We were given a set of papers, five sheets per person with a survey for their household, sicknesses, income and their satisfaction with the PUSKESMAS. The survey was going to help the YCAB team find out specifically what the slum […]
Kharis’ Reflection
This community and service is not what we thought it was first like. We thought that the community service will be a social work like painting and helping other people that are in needs in the are that is called “Petamburan”. But then this community and service activity is actually an indirect community and service. […]
Jeanne’s Reflection
This community and service activity was initiated by the organization known as YCAB, Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa. During the activity, I observed a completely different lifestyle from my own. I learned by observing the way they lived their everyday lives. It was a small area in Pertamburan, but there were lots of people living there. […]
Tiffany’s Reflection
On April 29th, we went to start the data collecting from 100 respondents in Petamburan Area as the second step in this program. We would be helping each household with their needs and also each respondent will probably take about 25-30 minutes to answer one set of questionnaire. This is a good opportunity for us […]
Alvin’s Reflection
This community and service is rather interesting. First thing in the morning, we had to meet at a specified location. There, we are briefed on what we will be doing and what we have to ask the people there. We are also divided into groups and in that smaller groups we are split again so […]
Dito’s Reflection
In this community and service activity, my friends and I helped an organization called YCAB in helping them to collect surveys of people concerning of their health and living conditions in the Tanah Abang area so that YCAB will be able to set up a BAKSOS program later on for this community of people. With […]
Callysta’s Reflection
Towards the end of the second semester, I realized that I was in need of community and service hours and because I wasn’t too sure about how many hours I had, I jumped at the chance to take part in this activity to supplement the hours that I needed to complete the C&S requirements for […]
Alexander Anggada’s Reflection
During one Sunday morning, my friends invited me to join with the non-profit organization, YCAB to conduct a survey on their micro-finance clients. The place was a large slum, with hundreds of houses merely two meters from the train tracks. This slum area was in Rumah Susun Petamburan, a place near Grand Indonesia and other […]
Iris’ Reflection
A non-profitable organization named YCAB is a very impressive organization that helps better society. YCAB stands for Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa. During this activity then would like SPH students to participate in developing a health profile for some of the citizens that live in Petamburan Area. This job will relate to YCAB’s project called the […]