The alumni of YES program
2010-2011 currently working on an alumni social project entitled “YES Berbagi”. Berbagi
in Indonesian means “to share”. YES Berbagi is designed to inspire young people to achieve their dreams by doing interactive discussion and active learning in emergency schools
around Jakarta Metropolitan Era (Jabodetabek) that mostly inhabit by the
underprivileged youth. This project is planned to held in 3 months, once in
every month and hopefully could still countinue thrice in a year in the future.
This program held in
collaboration with US Embassy in
Indonesia, Education USA Indonesia, Bina
Antar Budaya Foundation,
AMINEF (American Indonesian Exchange
Foundation), and
IYAA (Indonesian YES Alumni
Association).
Our first project held on 16
to 18 July 2012 in SMP Terbuka Ibnu Sina. SMP Terbuka Ibnu Sina is located on
Jl. Riau Kampung Rawa Barat Rt 004 Rw 05, Kel. Pondok Pucung, Kel. Pondok Aren,
Tangerang Selatan 15229. This school is sponsored by Maleo Foundation which is initiated
by a group of religious women (Quranic Club) who care about education and
health of underprivileged community around Bintaro Jaya. Therefore SMP Terbuka
Ibnu Sina is made for the underpriviledged youth who are willing to pursue
their education but don’t have enough money to afford a reguler education. This
school offer free of charge for those
youth to have a good education so that they can still pursue their dreams,
since most of the teachers are volunteer and school supplies given by the
school are donation.
The reason why we choose
this school because we think this school is ideal for our project . The
criteria that make this school fitted with our project are:
1.
Most of the
students are having finacial issues so they cannot afford a good education. We
want to help underpriviledged youth to have the same motivation, spirit and
passion as we do in achieving their dreams.
2.
This school is located in the suburban of Jakarta
in which youth around this area are also expected to support the development of
the capital city.
3. Junior high school (middle school) students would
be the ideal to assist for achieving their dream, because we want them to
continue their study to a specialized school
4. which is required more skill such as SMK or Academy
instead of going to SMA and college that require a lot of money.
5. As a part of YES Alumni, we don’t want the impact
of our program stop after a year of program has finished and only benefit to
ourselves. However, we want to give a greater impact to the community by
sharing our experience that we have got through our exchange years, generating
the volunterism, giving inspiration and motivations.
The main comitte of YES
Berbagi are Aryanda Ondrio as the Project Officer, Nadya
Azzahra and Dwinia Emil as
the Program Coordinator, Haikal Eki Ramadhan
as Secretary and Treasury, Nadia Shifa
Hardani as
Public Relation Officer, Annisa Sabila Aufary Chandra as Creative Team, and Hanissa Zianda as Secretary. This
project also welcome all of the volunteers who have the same vision and mission
to pursue the goal of this project. So far, there were 28 volunteers for the
first batch of YES Berbagi coming from both returnee and non returnee of the
YES program.
Initially, this program wants to make a “Class of
Inspiration” which is designed similarly to the Career Day in the School of
United States. This class will be a media for YES alumni to share their stories
and experience in order to inspire young kids to pursue their dream as high as
possible. However as the development of this project, it become more flexible
and dynamic to serve and support the school according to their needs such as
the form of this “Class of Inspiration” delivered in the School Orientation of
SMP Terbuka Ibnu Sina.
YES Berbagi program wants to give a different perspective
of how the School Orientation should be held in Indonesia, unlike the common
School Orientation that focused mainly on the interaction of the junior to the
senior which is sometimes have a high tendency for bullying to be happened.
This program tried to make the orientation become more fun, inspiring, creative
and interactive so that it can prepare the students to face their school life
as well as their future life ahead. In this program, the students are
facilitated to think critically and have a better self esteem to be confidence
speaking in front of many people to deliver their thoughts.
The first day began with a flag ceremony and then continued with an introduction of the
comittee and the volunteer of YES Berbagi to the students. The activities
followed by games and ice breaking, also group distribution. The group
distribution aimed to make the activties run more smoothly so the students
could be more focus and have a good interactive discussion. The first session
was exploring self potential and passion which facilitated students to express
themselves elaborately and creatively. The next session was inventing dreams which
the students were asked to write down their bucket list as many as possible.
The chaperone of the group then facilitated them to give a better direction of
how to classified their wish to be accomplished in a short term and long term
period of time. The session also discussed about the definition of success and
how each of the sudents define succes and how to achieve it. They also asked to
write down their dream in a bubble whcih it will be captured and the printed of
the photo will be used for crafting in the last day.
The next day filled up with mini outbonds to enhance
their leadership skills and teamwork. There were move the rope, shipwreck and
telling stories, which were designed in a fun way and in a form competition
between the groups. After that, the activities done in the outbond were
discussed in a larger forum so that all of the student would get the message
behind each outbounds. They were also encouraged to develop an organisation
inside their school such as student council. The day ended with a session of
“Entrepreneurship” and future exploration by US Embassy, Education USA and
AMINEF (American Indonesian Exchange Foundation)
The last day were entertained with drama performances
from Ibnu Sina students entitled “Kota Impian” (Dream City) which is guided by
the chaperone of the group and various performances from the comittee and the
volunteer. The students also decorated their classroom by making display from
the bubbles of their dream that have been creatively designed by them. To end up
the all of the actitivies of the program, there were announcement of the winner
of the drama, best student, group slogan, speech from Ms. Sri (Maleo Foundation
Representatives), and also donated books as a part of National Book Drive
project that held by Bina Antarbudaya Fondation and IYAA (Indonesian YES Alumni
Association).
Hopefully this project could be sustainable in the future
and give a great impact not only to the underprivilleged community that we
served but also to the volunteer so that they can ehance their sense to share
to their community.
Nadya Azzahra
Program Coordinator
of YES Berbagi
Alumni of YES
2010-2011
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