On the 29 of April 2012, a lot of my friends and I went out to help YCAB to take a survey of people’s living condition. Firstly, I should say this community and service is quite different with the other things that I did before. Even though this time all we did was ask them […]
Publications
Rumah Belajar & Me: My Time with YCAB
Dear Ibu, It’s been a long and winding journey since I first join YCAB in 2003. It has been a life changing experience, especially when you entrusted me to lead Rumah Belajar YCAB. At first I was afraid knowing that I’m not really a good student back when I was still in junior high and […]
Oriented
Indonesia. Every year 400 thousands kids got out of poverty and managed to attend schools owing to Veronica Colondam. [1] +20,000%: Results of a youth NGO One out of three children drops out of school before they finish their elementary school. They are children who do not have hope, who enter into the drugs network, […]
“Social Entrepreneurship” – the New ‘In’ Thing
The International Social Entrepreneurship conference, organized by INSEAD Business School, YCAB Foundation, Gadjah Mada University and Binus Business School in Jakarta last Wednesday, proves that the snowball of social entrepreneurship has started rolling bigger and faster than it has ever been in Indonesia. Both a growing trend and a relief – knowing that the country […]