YCAB Foundation
search
  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • About YCAB
    • YCAB in Numbers
    • Premise of Change
    • Meet Our Team
    • Our Core Values
  • Programs
    • Center of Change
    • Our Programs
    • Beneficiaries
    • International Footprint
  • Impact Reports
  • Publications
  • Milestones
  • Our Partners
  • How to Participate
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Job Vacancies
  • News & Media
    • News Updates
    • Media Coverage
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
  • Volunteer
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

YCAB Foundation

Child by Child We Build Our World

search
  • Donate
  • Volunteer
  • News Updates
  • Press Releases
  • Photo & Video
  • Campaign
  • Volunteer
  • Media Coverage
  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • About YCAB
    • YCAB in Numbers
    • Premise of Change
    • Meet Our Team
    • Our Core Values
  • Programs
    • Center of Change
    • Our Programs
    • Beneficiaries
    • International Footprint
  • Impact Reports
  • Publications
  • Milestones
  • Our Partners
  • How to Participate
    • Donate
    • Volunteer
    • Job Vacancies
  • News & Media
    • News Updates
    • Media Coverage
  • Contact Us

Story of HOpE

Rahmat’s Story

Posted on March 11, 2013

Dominikus Rahmat (center), Head of Microfinance Operation

Helping others is not the way it used to be. Working in YCAB’s microfinance programme, my efforts are well appreciated and I get to help people.

I have been active as a microfinance coordinator since 2002, and am interested in doing something that can be of real benefit to others. We may think something is beneficial, when it actually is not. There are many obstacles in the process of providing loans to a client. We even encounter rejection at times. Loans are nothing new.

I became interested in joining YCAB because of Veronica’s innovation to integrate a microfinance programme with their existing Rumah Belajar (learning centre for dropouts) both serves as an answer to the sustainability of Rumah Belajar and at the same time, a means to recruit school dropouts at the bottom of the pyramid. This is a very unique and novel idea.

Microfinance acts as an entry point for delivering good news to the community, in the form of constructive value, useful information, and training.

In this programme, our mission is not only to deliver loans for business capital. We provide additional value as well by offering the opportunity of Rumah Belajar (our community learning centre) for out of school children, whose parents cannot afford to educate them, and for parents who seek vocational courses with affordable fees. My team and I feel a sense of self-satisfaction when we are able to be part of this process.

What is great about YCAB is the community learning centres. Other than microloans, we can immediately see and feel the benefits of helping a child go back to school. This is what keeps me motivated. The integration of microloans with education are complimentary and has a positive impact to the community. It gives me great joy to see the smile of a mother who has benefited from us being there for them.

Next →Petamburan slum, West Jakarta

sidebar

Follow Us on Social Media

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Linked In

Enter Your Email

  • Contact Us
  • About
  • Donate
  • News
  • Terms
  • Privacy

"Apart from the free survey software, we also have access to QuestionPro's free survey templates.
We've found many of them useful and powerful to collect insights from various stakeholders of our organization."

Copyright © 2023 YCAB Foundation. All Rights Reserved.