Help 15 Girls in Bali Graduate from High School

Dear Donors, 

First of all, YKIP would like to thank you for your kind donation so that our project to help 15 girls to finish their senior high school is funded. It is all because of your generosity that we can make the dreams of 15 girls to finish their education to grade 12 come true.

As the project funded is for 15 girls to finish their senior high school will take some time until all students in this project are finishing their high school, we will keep you updated on the progress of the project. We are also delighted to inform you that this year, one of the students that you are sponsored finished her high school in the middle of this year. Sari sends you a thank you for sponsoring her so that she finished her senior high school as below:

Hello, donors at GlobalGiving,

How are you? I hope everything is fine.

My family and I are in a good condition, we are healthy and fine, but we still have to stay at home due to the pandemic.

I would like to thank you for the generosity that you have supported my education in senior high school. Now I have graduated from vocational high school.

I plan to find a job after graduating. Finding a job is hard if you don’t have any experience. For me, I am grateful that I choose the vocational school that gives me the chance to have on the job training period. I got training in one of the villas in the Candidasa area and I got quite a lot of experience during my training. I also got a certificate in the training and it will be proof that I gained experience in the tourism industry. I believe by this chance it will be easier for me to get the job. However, due to the pandemic, the tourism sector is not operating as it used to be, but I hope that this will be over soon and everything will be back to normal.

Again, I would like to thank you for your support to me so that I can have the opportunity to study and get training in the tourism industry. It is really useful for me and my parents too. I hope that I can meet you in person someday. I hope your generosity can assist more students like me so that they can also finish school.

Sari

* We have proofread the letter and edited the letter without changing the context.
 

Donation Distribution  

We started the donation distribution of the new academic year 2020-2021 in the second week of September 2020. The donation that we distribute in this event as below:

1. School supplies (books and stationery)
2. Internet allowance (previously was the pocket money/transport allowance, but due to the pandemic and most students are studying online, we still distribute the allowance, but now is allocated to buy internet package)
3. Admission fee for those who admitted in grade 10. 

As the distribution is held in the pandemic situation, the health and safety of everyone is the highest priority. We keep the contact minimum, have the students and family wear their mask during the event, and obliged everyone to wash their hands before entering the venue.  

YKIP also paid the monthly school fee for the first semester in the fourth week of August 2020, when YKIP field and admin staff visited each school where the sponsored students study. We hope that by distributing the school supplies and allowances we can help the children more during this uncertain time. 

YKIP would like to thank you for your generous donation to this project. We will keep you updated about the project's progress in the future. 

You can still support YKIP on GlobalGiving. Please donate to our other projects: Helping girls to get more skills and help 25 more students finishing their studies in senior high school.

May you and your loved ones always healthy and well,

YKIP Team

Dear Donors and supporters, 

May this report finds you well,

The Covid 19 pandemic has changed all aspect of our life, and YKIP programs and its beneficiaries is not an exception. YKIP takes necessary steps in preventing the spread of the disease right after the government of the Republic of Indonesia announce the existing case in Indonesia. YKIP staff started to work from home since the third week of March and do all monitoring to the children in the program remotely and with help of our local partners is the area. With heavy heart, YKIP also had to postpone the fourth quarter distribution of 2019-2020 academic year due to the pandemic situation.  

YKIP supported students are study at home started from the second week of March 2020, following the order of the government. They need to study online, and most of them find that online study is rather challenging. Some of them do not have sufficient tools to do the online study, while other students are struggling to have the internet package in the middle of decreasing income of their parents.  

We then try our best to assist all the children and families in all YKIP programs by conducting the 4^th quarter distribution on May. Although the students are study at home, we still distribute the fund that intended to be the pocket money for the students, but now it is reallocated to buy the internet package, so they can buy more internet package to study online. This is will also ease the parent, so they can support their children study online without worrying that they should allocate their money to buy internet package.

The distribution was started on May 14 and ended on June 3, 2020. We took longer time to distribute the donation because we would apply the preventive method to make sure that all people involved in the event are safe. Unlike previous donation distribution events, we did not make a gathering. The student or parent need to come to the venue in designated time. We also required all people who came to the distribution to wash their hands, using face mask, and keep safe distance from other people. We also disinfected the area before and after the event. In the area where we have many students, we divided the distribution into several days, to make sure all people are obeying the preventive measure. 

Another additional support we gave to the students and family in the program is food package support. Thanks to our donors who support us in this initiative to support the families further. We distribute food package that consists of rice, eggs, cooking oil, sugar, instant noodle, and biscuits for the students’ family. The distribution of this food package was conducted in the same time with the 4th quarter donation distribution of academic year 2019-2020.  Not only we distribute the food package to our students in KEMBALI, but also to the families in our other programs such as KIDS, Vocational, and University Programs. We hope that this initiative will help the family during this uncertain time.

We are grateful that we have such generous donors like you so that we can continue to support the sponsored students in our programs during this challenging time. Thank you for your kind support to Balinese girls to finish their high school.

Stay safe and healthy,

Sending you all the best wishes from Bali,

YKIP Team