At least 2 Months (Any date except July 2014 - closed for holidays).
Abu Hurairah orphanage is one of moslem orphanages located in Salatiga (2 hours by bus from Semarang city center) with 65 children living in this orphanage. Orphanages in Indonesian's sense can be slightly different from those in other countries because orphanages in Indonesia do not always mean for the orphan children providing them with places to live, but also a place for the children coming from poor family background that they can get possibility to have education. Abu Hurairah orphanage serve the function as a place to stay for the children as well as to have education at least up to senior high school (in most cases up to the children reach the age of 18 years old). Most of children are orphan but many of them are also coming from poor family background that can not afford for the children's education.
The needs that we identified from this project are:
capacity building for the children to increase their self confident, inter cultural learning, additional English classes, and skill development for the children. Please note that the orphanage has 3 parts; 2 in Kauman (girls orphanage and for boys aged from 6-15 years old) and Soka part (for older boys). The volunteers’ placement will depend on the need and decision of the orphanage, either the volunteer will go to Kauman or Soka part.
Project:
Organized together with the Moslem orphanage of Abu Hurairah, the volunteers will organize additional English lessons for the children in the afternoon and evening (the children live separately between girls and boys and mainly the volunteers will work with the boys) and in the weekend or holiday, the volunteers can also organize additional fun activity for capacity building and self confident raising. Because of the limited time that the volunteers can spend to have activities with the children (most children will go to schools in the morning), the project will be also combined with school projects where the children are going to. The volunteers will be expected to organize English classes in some Muhammadiyah schools in the morning, either for elementary, junior or senior high schools.
Other activities like inter cultural night, cooking different kind of foods from different countries, movie nights, outing together on holidays are also suggested to the volunteers to organize together with the children for raising self confident and self esteem as well as inter cultural learning aspect of the children. Skills classes can be organized accordingly to develop the skills of the children that later on they can use the skills to earn money when they are out from the orphanage.
Work:
Organizing additional English lesson for the children in the afternoon, organizing English classes at schools in the morning where the children are going to, organizing different kind of skills development activities like cooking, drawing, music, etc, organizing inter cultural night for example movie nights or other cultural performances together with the children.
Accommodation:
in the orphan house together with the children. The volunteers will have their own room with an Indonesian shared bathroom and toilet, simple matters and closet, shared kitchen or else the volunteer will be accommodated in the boarding house close to the orphanage.
Location:
Abu Hurairoh, Salatiga, Central Java Indonesia. The orphanage is located very close to the main road and Salatiga city center which is very easy for public facilities. Internet cafe, university, hospital, markets are reachable from the orphanage on foot.
Language:
English, some Indonesian will be a great help.
Terminal:
Semarang Ahmad Yani Airport or Tawang Train Station or Terboyo Bus Station. Please do not come directly to the project site since volunteer will get orientation in IIWC office.
Special Remarks:
Please note that volunteers should wear shirt with sleeve and over the knee skirt/trousers. Volunteers with no visible tattoo, piercing on face, dread lock and big motivation are very welcome. There is a university project going on in Abu Hurairah orphanage. The University project is a project to give a scholarship and opportunity to the children in the orphanage to continue to the university and obtain higher education. In Indonesia, it is quite expensive to go to the university and most children in the orphanage do not have any chance to go to university because lack of money. Some ex long term volunteers set up a scheme to raise some fund and send the children to the university. The additional tasks for the volunteers will be preparing the senior high school children to pass the final national examination and enrollment test, selecting the children that will get the scholarship, mentoring and monitoring the children who get the scholarship. There is also garbage separation and environment education for children that the children are expected to separate the garbage and the previous volunteer built a burning storage in an environmental way. You are also expected to continue this activity.
Participation Fee:
190 Euro per month.
This fee is covering administration costs, information and support in obtaining visa before arrival, accommodation, transportation from IIWC office to Abu Hurairah orphanage when you start your project, orientation session, evaluation session, project coordination, supervision, police letter approval, and educational material needed by your project. Please note that the volunteers should bear her/his personal expenses, visa extensions for IDR 300.000 each extension and bear health insurance by themselves. Meals support provided IDR 600.000 each month.
at least 2 months (Any date except July 2014 - school holidays).
The project of Middle Term Volunteer in Fatimatuz Zahro orphanage is based on the needs of the children for a tutor for their English lesson. After further survey and observation for the needs of the children, it is obvious that the children need the help of the volunteer in their orphanage especially for skill development (in the form of foreign language skills and income generating skills), increasing the awareness for self hygiene, raising awareness about environment especially garbage management system, maintaining clean sanitation related to health, and how to build self confident. This project combines with teaching in two junior high schools where most the children go to study. There are Al-Islah and 10 November Junior High School. These schools give scholarship for the orphanage children.
Project:
the project will be organized together with the Moslem orphanage of Fatimatuz Zahro highlighting additional foreign language classes (usually English and Japanese), assisting English classes at Junior High School and skill development for the children. There will be possibility of organizing weekend workcamp together with other local volunteer to clean up the surrounding of the orphanage highlighting the environment and maintaining sanitation issues in the orphanage related with the needs of the children and the local people.
Work:
the actual work that the volunteers need to do are organizing additional English lesson for the children in the afternoon, helping the orphanage with the skill development or the children, capacity building of the children by organizing out bound activities, sport competition, music class and gardening with the children, give environment education and organizing weekend workcamp to clean up the surrounding which will be related to the maintaining of personal health of the children.
Accommodation:
in the orphan house together with the children, the volunteer will have their own room separated from the children though.
Location:
Fatimatuz Zahro, Semarang, Central Java Indonesia. The orphanage is located closed the access for public facilities like market, internet, hospital, post office.
Language:
English is a must for additional English lesson, basic knowledge of Indonesian language will be very useful.
Terminal:
Semarang Ahmad Yani Airport or Tawang train station.
Participation Fee:
190 Euro per month, covering administration costs, information and support in obtaining visa before arrival, transportation from IIWC office to Fatimatuz Zahro orphanage when you start your project, orientation session, evaluation session, project coordinator, personal supervisor, police letter and educational material useful for your project, if necessary. Accommodation will be provided by the orphanage. Please note that the volunteers should bear her/his personal expenses, visa extensions for IDR 300.000 each extension if needed and bear health insurance by themselves. Meals support provided IDR 600.000 each month
First week of each month, except July-August 2014 due to Ramadhan.
Duration:
at least 2 months.
Pasirsari, Bugisan and Poncol villages are three small slum area in Pekalongan City, part of the famous North Java main land road and its Batik industry. It is IIWC’s home based project since 2009. Volunteers will work with IIWC Local Staff and other volunteers as a team at 3 spot which reachable by bicycle.
Work:
With help from Local Staff from IIWC, volunteers will organizing interesting non formal education activities to motivate the children to stay at school or go back to school, skill development, giving additional lesson to support children education, raising awareness and monitoring personal hygiene (washing hand, brushing teeth, etc.) among the children and another actual tasks can vary according to the projects current needs and depend on the volunteers own initiative.
Location:
Pasirsari,Bugisan and Poncol Pekalongan City, Central Java Indonesia.
Language:
English is a must, the knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) will be necessary because most of the target group and local people DO NOT speak any English.
Accommodation:
Sharing house with the other volunteers at Volunteer house.
Terminal:
Ahmad Yani Semarang International Airport or Semarang Tawang Train station.
Special Remarks:
Very challenging project because of complexity of social and economical problems. Volunteers are expected to be very open minded, independent and creative to join this project.
Participation Fee:
190 Euro per month covering meals, accommodation, administration cost, information and support in obtaining visa before arrival, transportation from IIWC office to the project site when you starting your project, orientation session, evaluation session, project coordination, personal supervisor, police letter and educational material useful for your project. Please note that the volunteers should bear her/his personal expenses, visa extensions for IDR 300.000 each extension if needed and bear health insurance by themselves. Meals support provided IDR 600.000 each month.
SD Muhammadiyah Semoya Brebah (Muhammadiyah Semoya Brebah Elementary School) is a private Islamic elementary school. This school was one of school that visited by IIWC cares after earth quake in 2006. Some programs such as emergency workcamps, NVDA special camp, Notebook Action, donation for rebuilding one kindergarten, donation for sport facilities in primary school around this area had been done successfully. Recently, the school would like to have more International Voluntary Service (IVS) activity for the student there. The spirit and motivation brought by volunteers are expected to raise the motivation of the student to study more for their future. There is a need to have international experiences for the students as well as the teacher to build more their knowledge and soft skill in term of non-formal education approach combined with the formal education at school. At the same time, this project is also to offer the volunteers a chance to see the recovered area of which IIWC and some partners in the year of 2006-2008 did the post earth quake IVS action-The IIWC Cares Jogja as well as to share opportunity to the volunteers to experience local culture of Jogja which is not the touristic side.
Work:
Volunteer will assist English classes for 1st – 6th grade, non-formal English class for Teachers and staffs, culture exchange with the local people, help the work of local events, visiting kindergarten, and character building for the children. Volunteer can also help local people in their daily work in farm.
Accommodation:
Host Family
Location:
Semoya Village, Brebah, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta
Language:
English for communication for teaching and learning activities.
Terminal:
Ahmad Yani Airport Semarang, Tawang Station Semarang
Special Remarks:
Good in English and want to learn Bahasa Indonesia, Has a letter of teaching of English is more preferable, cheerful, patient, self confidence builder and high motivation.
Participation Fee:
190 Euro per month covering administration cost, information and support in obtaining visa before arrival, transportation from IIWC office to project site when you start your project, orientation session, evaluation session, project coordinator, police letter and personal supervisor. Please note that the volunteers should bear her/his personal expenses, visa extensions for IDR 300.000 each extension if needed and bear health insurance by themselves. Meals support provided IDR 600.000 each month.
« I can say that the best things about the workcamp and this whole experience were the chance of making a real difference to the lives of very needy children. This is an extremely valuable project where volunteers can have a massive impact. Also the possibility of learning a huge amount about a country so different from our own. I learnt ten times as much by carrying out a workcamp than I would ever do backpacking. »