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Fun Saturday

Books for Hope — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:01:04 +0000

On Saturday morning, Nov. 20th 2010. Tangerang Youth Detention Center (The Center) with Books for Hope and Pustaka Lebah held Writing Workshop named “Fun Saturday“. This event took place at The Center’s Hall. There were 20 kids with age range from 13 to 18 years old participated in this event. Journalists from Gatra, MNC and Bintang Indonesia were also present. In addition to workshop, Books for Hope also donated books to the Center’s library.

Mr. Priyadi – as The Center’s Chief – delivered speech to start the event. He mentioned in his speech that he was very supportive with the workshop since it was aligned with his program – to provide applied skills to the kids. He added that recently there were various applied skills have been taught in the Center besides formal education. Some of these applied skills are: Computer course, mechanic skills, fishery, music, graphic design, drama etc. All these skills were provided in order to equip the kids once they were released. The Chief concluded his speech by sharing his aspiration that with so many applied skills taught in The Center, he hoped that in the near future The Center could become “living laboratory” for those who want to learn how to teach such skills to improve human life.

After The Chief’s speech, we continued to the movie session. We have selected “Kungfu Panda” as the movie. Olga Lydia – one of Indonesia’s Top Celebrities – led this session. She mentioned that there are so many values that we could learn from “Kungfu panda” one of them is the importance of having self confidence and strong willingness to keep learning in order to optimize someone’s talent.

During the movie, we saw some of these kids laughed happily as they watched the adorable main character – Po the Panda. The combination of simple story line, comedy elements and the value of life managed to captivate all these kids’ attention to the movie screen even though at the same time we tried to distract them by distributing delicious Krispy Kreme’s doughnuts. To these kids, watching television was a luxury activity in their daily life so we understood that they were really enthusiasts with this movie session.

Finished with the movie session, we continued with the workshop session. Koko from Pustaka Lebah opened this session by describing the workshop’s rules. He explained that after watching movie, every kids will be given a homework to write a story which theme aligned with movie’s theme. The story could be anything from movie’s review until personal experience as long as the theme aligned with the movie. These writings served as tickets for these kids which means those who don’t submit their writings in the next meeting – which will be held 2 weeks from this meeting – will not be eligible to participate in the movie session. Koko also mentioned that for those whose stories have been elected as the stories of the week will be rewarded. In order to facilitate these kids writing their stories, Books for Hope and Koko equipped these kids with workbooks and pencils. Koko ended the workshop session with encouragement to these kids that their writings could determine their future, as these writings will be published to the internet so the whole world could read it. “Physically you are confined in this place, however your writings are free to channel your opinion to the outside world” said Koko to conclude his session as well as to end the workshop.

Happy Kartini day to all Indonesian Women!

Books for Hope — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:28:15 +0000

The celebration of Kartini day at Elbow Room (Kemang Raya) brought different ambience as 21 gorgeous ladies stand hand in hand to raise funds to support Books for Hope.

Olga Lydia,Books for Hope’s Reading Ambassador, initiated this fund raising event. The event went well and the customers of Elbow Room are excited to know more about Books for Hope and how to participate.

These ladies really showed the Kartini spirit within. The funds raised will surely help to change the life of the children across Indonesia through books.

So,for all the women out there,let’s show the Kartini spirit and help making this world a better place to live.

Hope for Kids-Pre school action

Books for Hope — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:49:56 +0000

More and more people get involved in Books for Hope. Even the kindergarten children from Hope for Kids-Pre school joined hand in hand to be involved to help their friends in less fortunate areas.

Hope for Kids is located in Pantai Indah Kapuk,North Jakarta. The founder -Jenti Martono and the head master – ‎Luciana Maitimoe together with all the creative and energetic teachers conduct an event on February 13,2010 to celebrate Chinese New Year and Valentine’s day.

In the event, Mrs. Jenti as the founder of Hope for Kids donate some funds and books to Books for Hope.

Thanks to all the dedicated teachers and the lovely children of Hope for Kids in supporting Books for Hope delivers greater good to others.

Pulau Komodo

Books for Hope — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:07:44 +0000

Books for Hope, Lydia, jessy, olga lydia, and 2 reporters (from gatra and MNC) just got back from komodo village in komodo island (flores). We support the village there by donating 350books.

There are around 450children in the village, age from elementary to junior high. They have a proper school building only up to junior high. Those who want to continue to senior hig, have to go to the other island.

To build the library in komodo village, we work together w/ the kepala desa (pak adam). The space for the library is located below pak ridwan’s house (the houses in the village is rumah panggung, so we use the ‘kolong’ as library). The bookshelves are prepared by the community with the support of Taman Bacaan Pelangi.

When we arrived at the village, the children were lining up to welcome us with their ‘komodo’ theme song. So interesting. They even have a ‘manta ray’ mascot dancing during the songs.

We held WEW as usual. There were around 80 children attending the workshop.

Olga Lydia has been very helpful in arranging this visit and in getting the media coverage. So the promotion will be from the tourism side komodo island and books for hope is mentioned as well.
the media coverage,will come from more media, coz olga arranged press conf yesterday.

Olga Ingin Merdeka dari Buta Huruf

Books for Hope — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:59:43 +0000

Source: Koran Seputar Indonesia, 17 Agustus 2009

Olga Lidya Ajak Belajar Lewat Dongeng

Books for Hope — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:49:13 +0000

Source: www.kapanlagi.com

Tawa Merdeka di Muara Angke

Books for Hope — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:40:18 +0000

Pada tanggal 16 Agustus 2009, ada yang berbeda di perkampungan nelayan, Muara Angke, Jakarta Barat. Sekitar 50 anak berkumpul dengan menggenggam buku kesukaannya. Mereka tak sabar menunggu giliran untuk segera menunjukkan kemampuannya berdongeng di acara: “Merdeka Lewat Buku”.

Acara ini merupakan kerjasama antara Books For Hope (BfH) dan PWCare (CSR Activity dari Price Waterhouse Cooper) dalam rangka merayakan dirgahayu kemerdekaan Indonesia yang ke-64. Pada kesempatan ini hadir Olga Lydia, duta baca dari Books for Hope yang juga bertindak sebagai juri untuk lomba mendongeng.

Antusiasme peserta lomba tidak terbendung. Sebut saja Gopi, walau belum fasih membaca ia tetap percaya diri untuk berdongeng di depan teman-temannya. Semangat Gopi untuk menunjukkan kemampuannya merupakan gambaran sekilas anak-anak Indonesia yang memiliki semangat untuk merdeka dari segala bentuk kebuta-hurufan dan merdeka untuk berkhayal melalui berbagai cerita yang bisa mereka akses dari buku-buku.

Bukan hanya anak-anak, tetapi orang tua, tetangga, kakak dan adik dari para peserta pun turut memberi tanggapan positif terhadap acara ini. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat dengan membludaknya penonton. Mereka berbondong-bondong untuk menyaksikan kemampuan membaca dan berdongeng dari para peserta.

Semangat ini jugalah yang tumbuh di Books for Hope dan PWCare untuk terus membantu pengadaan buku untuk taman bacaan di Muara Angke. Salah satu orang yang berjasa dengan hadirnya taman bacaan ini adalah pak Mahmud, salah satu anggota Komisi Nasional Perlindungan Anak. Pak Mahmud mendambakan anak-anak di desa Muara Angke kelak dapat berhasil di kehidupan. Dan ia percaya, salah satu faktor yang dapat mendukung terwujudnya impian itu adalah dengan menyediakan tempat dan bacaan yang berkualitas. Niat ini disambut hangat oleh Books for Hope yang langsung menggandeng PWCare sebagai partner dalam proyek ini.

Sudah hampir 2,5 bulan ini BFH dan PWCare bekerjasama untuk mengadakan buku berkualitas bagi anak-anak di perkampungan nelayan Muara Angke . Tidak hanya itu, BfH dan PWCare juga secara rutin memberikan Weekend Enrichment Workshop yang mengajarkan anak-anak berdongeng, menggambar dan mewarnai, menyanyi serta permainan interaktif lainnya. Tujuannya tak lain dan tak bukan agar anak-anak di desa tersebut dapat tumbuh menjadi pribadi yang berwawasan dan memiliki creative thinking.

Acara tidak berakhir sampai disana. Setelah mengumumkan pemenang untuk lomba mendongeng, maka acara dilanjutkan dengan lomba ala 17-an. Perayaan 17-an tidak akan afdol tanpa lomba makan kerupuk dan juga lomba joget balon. Bahkan, Olga Lydia, sang juri juga tidak ragu-ragu untuk turut serta dalam lomba makan krupuk dan berbagi kecerian dengan masyarakat di desa nelayan tersebut.

Demikianlah segelintir cerita dari desa nelayan Muara Angke. Dengan semangat dan kerja keras, Books for Hope akan terus berusaha untuk mengadakan buku dan taman bacaan tidak hanya di Muara Angke, tetapi di berbagai desa di pelosok Indonesia. Sudah saatnya anak Indonesia juga merdeka dari segala pembodohan dan kebuta-hurufan. Dirgahayu Republik Indonesia. Merdeka!

Acer & Microsoft Kerjasama Lewat Books For Hope

Books for Hope — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:04:28 +0000

Source: www.kompas.com

Books for Hope Perluas Wawasan Anak Pedesaan

Books for Hope — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:02:32 +0000

Source: www.vivanews.com

Companies bring computer literacy to children in villages

Books for Hope — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:25 +0000

Source: www.thejakartapost.com