Kampung Cianjur, Puncak

Location : On mountainous area, 200km from Jakarta
No. of Children : 1000
No. of School : 2
No. of Library : 0
Socio-Economic Profile: Farmers, Maids in Middle East

Issue :
‘Contract Marriages’ – 7 of 10 mothers/ women in the village are brought to Middle East to work as home helpers. However, scams occur and these women signed ‘marriage contracts’ instead. As they are illeterate, it is often too late after they found out they have been cheated. The Village Head requested that women are taught the basic ability to read to curb this problem as soon as possible.
Drop out after Junior School due to lack of money for senior school textbooks

Books for Hope approach:

• Provide basic reading books
• Provide English books
• Provide high school text books

Kampung Borobudur, Jogjakarta

Location : 1km from Borobudur Temple, Jogjakarta, Central Jawa
No. of Children : 250
No. of School : 4
No. of Library : 1
Socio-Economic Profile: Farmers, Tourism

Issue : Children do not visit the existing library as it has only old, yellowish books. Also, it has mainly school textbooks which children do not like to read outside of school. There was also a specific request from the Headmaster to have foreign languages books as the Borobudur temple (one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world) is just 5 minutes away. A person who can speak a foreign language earns 5 times more .

Books for Hope approach:
Provide colorful story and enrichment books.
Provide language studies books (e.g. English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean)

Kampung Taming Julu, Padang, Sumatera

Location : Palm oil plantation, 6 hours from Padang town
No. of Children : 250
No. of School : 1
No. of Library : 0
Socio-Economic Profile: Plantation workers

Issue : A village tucked away in dense jungle, they did not own a library. With 250 children and a make-shift wooden school, resources were insufficient. Children were not exposed to the outside world and had limited awareness about basic general knowledge. Books were almost non-existent.

Books for Hope approach:

• Provide colorful story and enrichment books.

• Provide plantation/botany and handicraft magazines, and children magazines

• Provide textbooks

• Provide books on general and world knowledge

Location : Tangerang, behind Jakarta’s international airport

No. of Children : 400

No. of Library :  0

Socio-Economic Profile : Factory workers, trishaw riders, maids

Issue: This was a school with relatively good resources. They had more than 400 children and enough teachers. However, they did not own a library. There was however, part of the staff room which stores old books and text books which are shared by students. The existing books were tied up in strings and were yellowish in colour. Students had no interest to read.As there were some students of Chinese descendants, the principal requested Chinese dictionaries and writing books as well.

Books for Hope’s Approach:

• Provided new, colourful children storybooks
• Provided Chinese dictionaries and books
• Provided text books and work books so that more students can have their own text books

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