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In commemoration of World AIDS Day 2013 on December 1, 2013, DKI Jakarta’s Commission on AIDS Eradication together with Unilever Indonesia Foundation and YCAB Foundation invited 500 high school students, and other AIDS related institutions to raise awareness through a Fun Walk, yell competition, and flash mob. The commemoration event was also attended by Jakarta’s […]

World Aids Big Campaign Day was conducted on December 1, 2013 at FX Lifestyle Center, attended by 800 students from 5 schools and 300 staff of Standard Chartered Bank. The campaign agenda consisted of a fun walk, flash mob, and some creative competitions, such as HIV/ AIDS poster and yell competitions. The objective of this […]

Best known for its healthcare products, OBH Combi, part of PT. Combiphar’s Corporate Social Responsibility agenda, seeks to help underprivileged youths pursue their education. Through this unique charity event, the “Combi Bike Sunrise Challenge”, PT. Combiphar invited the biking community to ride on Car Free Day from Sudirman Central Business District (SCBD) to Bundaran Hotel […]

Coach Tastemaker Tote Project Fundraising Exhibition was held on November 20, 2013 at Gaia Altitude, The Plaza Jakarta as its aspiration to support YCAB in sending more underprivileged children back to school. The project invited ten leading Indonesian style influencers to design a customized bag, namely Legacy Duffle Bag. Founder/ CEO YCAB Foundation, Veronica Colondam […]

World Innovation of Education Summit (WISE) was established by Qatar Foundation in 2009 as an international and multi- sectoral platform that accommodates creative thinkers to discuss and produce significant actions through innovation, whose end is to build the future of education. The WISE activities involve annual Summit and an array of programs with strong belief […]

YCAB Foundation and Opera Software together, officially launched Browse For Change program on October 22nd, 2013 at Patio Function House. Browse For Change aims to facilitate underprivileged and school dropped-out children to attain primary education. The program invites millions of internet users in Indonesia to participate on this program from October 22nd, 2013 to January 21st, 2014 through downloading Opera Mini from micropage.opera.com/bfc and browsing at least one time. Opera will donate Rp 1,000 for every download and browsing activity to support 22 YCAB House of Learning Development (HOLD) across Indonesia. Opera records that Indonesia is home to the second largest Opera users in the world, and thus Opera has deep concerns to contribute to the Indonesian citizen. Through this program, as part of Opera’s CSR agenda, Opera wishes to deliver token of appreciation to Indonesian people.

Muhammad Iman Usman, one of YCAB Foundation staffs, an Indonesian non-profit organization that promotes economic empowerment for Indonesian women, conveyed his ideas in preparing future Indonesian young generations to take charge with Indonesia’s political endeavor. Reportedly in BBC News on October 17th, 2013, by Karishma Vaswani, citing some other sources, many young Indonesians seem “politically […]

Founded by Veronica Colondam in 1999, YCAB Foundation has developed into one of the country’s leading social enterprises, with a strong focus on providing economic assistance and education opportunities to empower young people in Indonesia. YCAB currently conducts three main programmes: HeLP, HoLD, & HOpE. To keep up with the increased scope of its operations, […]

On October 10th, 2013, Veronica Colondam, founder of YCAB Foundation, a Jakarta based non-profit organization that aims to provide economic assistance and education provision to empower Indonesian youths, delivered her opinion regarding Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo’s plan to relocate a million people to low-cost modern housing. Though the plan seems able to mitigate the human […]

Continuing the collaboration between YCAB Foundation and Johnson Home Hygiene Product (JHHP), on 4th September, 2013 a scholarship handover ceremony was held at Rumah Belajar Duri Kepa involving 30 selected students of Paket C (as well as Senior High School). The partnership with JHHP, running since last year, includes the donation of 3,000 pairs of […]

Prominent fashion designer Sebastian Gunawan, also known as Seba, revealed his new collection at the Grand Ballroom of Hotel Mulia in Central Jakarta on 3rd September, 2013. The blossoming partnership between Seba and YCAB has been going strong since 2005. Included in all his fashion shows since then – Classic Divine (2005), Rendezvouz (2006), Sweet […]