YOU are the KEY

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Rumah Belajar students continued with hybrid learning and thrived despite the circumstances and recurring challenges. Some of our students, who are overachievers, were granted the scholarship at Global Sevilla, one of private schools in Jakarta. 

“I am very fortunate and grateful to have such a memorable learning experience. With the skills that I obtained from the scholarship, it allowed me to work as a Sales Executive at a mall in Jakarta. Not only that, but with my willingness and determination, I continued my studies at Uhamka, the Islamic Education study program. 

YCAB PKBM taught me many valuable lessons and life skills that I can apply to my work and school opportunities. Thus, the scholarship allowed me to apply the skills I have learned and received a higher education that I did not initially plan for myself. 

I hope that YCAB Foundation can use their resources efficiently to open doors for other passionate and driven students like myself, for a better future for them and their family.” shared Vina, one of Rumah Belajar graduates of 2021.

Vina's story is one of the motivating factors that keeps us going. We are utterly grateful for your support and dedication during these tough times. With your assistance, we are continuing to thrive in what we do in the most efficient and effective way possible. Thanks to you, our students are set to achieve their dreams.

“Help others achieve their dreams, and you will achieve yours” 

Best regards,

YCAB Foundation

YCAB Foundation’s Rumah Belajar reopened its first school gates to students to sit and study in the physical classrooms in October 2021, following the Indonesian government’s regulations. Thanks to your kindness, our students have experienced online learning with its best perks and are now mentally preparing themselves for offline school.

Activities done face-to-face at school are crucial to students’ development and well-being. They provide academic instruction, support for developing social and emotional skills, safety, physical/speech, and mental health therapy, and opportunities for physical activity. While the pandemic hit us hard in 2020, schools were forced to shift and students were sent home to study remotely. This has definitely impacted our students’ and teachers’ way of doing traditional schooling. 

We acknowledge that for many students in Indonesia, the educational gaps that existed before the pandemic—in access, opportunities, achievement, and outcomes—are expanding. Many of these impacts are falling disproportionately on students who went into the pandemic with the greatest educational needs and fewest opportunities—those from historically marginalized and underserved groups. 

Online schooling has become another obstacle in our students’ daily lives. Inequity in devices, internet access, and data packages are one of the many challenges that they need to face. This has certainly needed additional costs which are not small to our students, whose families are struggling to make ends meet.

With school reopening and activities back to their normal state, students, teachers, and educators of YCAB Foundation Rumah Belajar will follow strict health protocols and only those who are fully vaccinated can come to school. This initiative is hoped to minimize transmission of COVID-19 among students and staff in Rumah Belajar and to their families and the broader community. 

We, YCAB Foundation, want to take stock and begin the hard work of building our Rumah Belajar to get back better and stronger—with the resolve necessary to ensure that our schools are defined not by disparities but by equality and opportunity for all students to flourish and thrive. 

Once again, we want to thank you for your benevolence and kindness. With your support, students under the wings of our YCAB Foundation’s Rumah Belajar continue to study, reaching their dreams, one step at a time.