Gerobak Pintar Visit Bantar Gebang Area

PROFILE of BANTAR GEBANG

In this landfill area, there is a study area for children operate under by the Cahaya Fajar International Foundation (YICF). There are 4 learning places around this landfill and they are located close together.

ABOUT CAHAYA FAJAR INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION (YICF)

Established in 2012, the “Life on Landfills: Indonesians Finding Education & Enterprise” (LIFE) program serves approximately 170 children and 300 families living and working as waste pickers on one of the world’s largest landfills, Bantar Gebang.

LIFE provides preschool classes, after-school tutoring, and university/vocational degree scholarships. The program has also provided school buildings, safe places for children to play, and the area’s first toilets. LIFE operates in 4 communities on the landfill and 2 communities in nearby slum areas.

The goal of this program is to break generational cycles of poverty by empowering the children and youth.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN THE SCHOOL OF LIGHT FAJAR BANTAR GEBANG

This learning place is a stopover learning place for children around the garbage dump, Bantar Gebang. Here they carry out teaching and learning activities such as: reading, writing, drawing, doing homework, etc.

• There are more than ± 120 children studying in this learning center

• The study schedule is divided into 2, namely Morning and Evening

• The age range is from early childhood to high school.

• This place really helps children to get deeper education knowledge that they cannot get from their slum areas.

• Teachers who teach are volunteers from the Cahaya Fajar International Foundation.

THE FUNCTIONS AND BENEFITS OF KEBUN BAYAM LEARNING HOUSE

Learning House Function:

1. As a forum for children who are less able to learn

2. As a place to create and learn soft skills

3. As a playground and gathering for both children and parents

4. As a place for children to stay who are less attentive than their parents

Benefits of Learning House:

1. Provide a place to fulfill children's rights so that children can grow, develop and participate optimally in accordance with human dignity

2. A place to appreciate creativity and improve skills for underprivileged children

3. Providing knowledge spiritual and scientific to children who are less able

4. Teaching children to read, write and draw

5. Provide supplies and religious motivation for children to comply with the teachings of norms and religion

Activities in Bantar Gebang

Gerobak Pintar at Paud Kasih Ibu – Sponsored by Kinderland Bonavista & PT Rain TBK

Kinderland Gives Back was the theme for the school year 2011-2012. Kinderland Bonavista decided to give back to the community by launching the Gerobak Pintar project. Gerobak pintar is a 'Smart Library & Puppet Theatre on Cart' program which we donate to the poor community. This program is created by Kinderland to allow the underprivileged children in the poor community to have access to story books. It's main objective is to increase these children's literacy level, thus they will be able to do better academically in their schools.

After surveying several locations and considering the community that are in need of this Mobile Library, we decided on a local preschool(Paud) in Lebak Bulus area. This preschool is small but it serves several communities around the area. It consists of 5 very hardworking and caring group of teachers who are inspired to teach all of the preschool-aged children around this area by charging very low affordable fees. What is lacking in their school are books. Therefore, parents of Kinderland Bonavista together PT Rain TBK as our main sponsor donates a Gerobak Pintar to Paud Kasih Ibu, located at Karang Tengah, Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta on 12 September 2011.

Until today, the Gerobak Pintar program has been diligently conducted as part of Paud Kasih Ibu program as well as storytelling sessions conducted during the weekends for the rest of the underprivileged children in the community, from 3 to 8 year olds.

GEROBAK PINTAR PEDONGKELAN– KINDERLAND PULO MAS

Pendongkelan in East Jakarta is strategically located in the borders of Central Jakarta, East Jakarta and North Jakarta. A number of houses and huts lay by Ria Rio reservoir. Citizen of Pendongkelan are mostly outsiders, who have been occupying the land for decades. As public residence area, the number of citizen of Pendongkelan fluctuates everyday. But clearly, there are more than one thousand (1000) people live there. Mostly, they work in informal sectors like labours, scavengers, street sellers and street musicians. This area is known to be prone to criminality. Well-known criminals 'kapak merah', pocket thieves, and transvestites operate freely in this area.

We intiated Gerobak Pintar in Pedongkelan area on 29th of January 2011. It catered young children from 2 till 11 years old with our implementation partner HOPE Worldwide Indonesia. Activities were usually delivered two to three times a week. Children were being introduce to story books and also to pre-reading activities. Pedongkelan area was burned in year 2013 and people used to live in that area have been relocated to other parts of Jakarta.