Give An Education To A Trash Picker's Child

In March, XSProject had a productive month as school started for the children. They also received various donations in terms of toys and staple food commodities. Based on the facilities provided by XSProject, we prepared some fun activities like scavenger hunt, played various games, and organised a library club activity with Jakarta International School (JIS) students. Whilst continuing to follow strict protocols and maintaining their health, considering the current situation, we wanted them to still be able to learn through other educational activities and play outdoors.

The Jakarta International School (JIS) offers a collaboration where their High School students create various programs and extra-curricular activities. The school can collaborate with other non-profit organisations under the umbrella JIS cares (JIS Peduli). A few examples of their activities are Library, Garden Club and ‘take a bow drama’. XSProject children participated in all the three activities.

The first one was at the XSLibrary where the kids interacted with the JIS students online by doing an activity given by them. On normal circumstances, the JIS students would come and read books or play different games with the children. The second one was the Garden Club activity where the JIS students come and plant trees in our facility. The third activity was ‘take a bow’ drama club. Due to the pandemic, the JIS students created a website with skits/games using videos and sent it to us for us to practice and play with the children.

The main idea is to provide activities that will keep the children busy and happy but also have some activities that will make them mobile so they are not only sitting in one place. Overall, it was an enjoyable set of activities that enliven the spirits of the children by allowing them to interact with JIS students in a new way.

Our continuous efforts to keep things moving allows us and the children to feel positive and motivated.

We thank you, our customers and community for their support and dedication to our project.

XSProject starts the new year in the new facility with many activities to keep the children busy while continue to follow the pandemic protocol.

They continue to do distance learning and since we now have more rooms, we can provide smaller group of students to study together. The place is also providing a space for the boys to do some exercise or extra room to move around in an open space.

We want the children to continue to stay healthy. This year we are lucky to welcome dr. Berli who would love to volunteering his busy time, to come twice a month to help us in running our health programs for this year. We started with checking their weight and height and he will conduct interviews to some of the children who are underweight, to find out more about their diets, their habits, etc. We will provide the children with vitamin and worm medicine.

This coming month of February, dr. Berli will meet with all the moms and will discuss about Family Planning.

In December we welcomed also a volunteer eye doctor who conducted an eye checkup for the Primary school and 3 of the students need to wear glasses.

Indah was in tears when the doctor told her that she needs glasses, but she is very happy now to finally can see things better.

There will be more activities for all students in this coming month that we will share.

Thank you for your support. Your donations through GlobalGiving will help us continue providing necessary health service for the children and their parents, so they continue to be healthy in this uncertain pandemic.