Youth Volunteers for a Good Cause
There are 28 million Indonesians still living in poverty, according to the National Statistics Agency, with the poverty rate as of March this year standing at 14.11 percent. This has prompted some youth social movements to extend a helping hand. In Aceh, a young civil servant used the social media to start a fund-raising campaign to build homes for the poor in several regencies. Meanwhile, in East Nusa Tenggara, social activist Valentino Louis set up Shoes for Flores, a movement to donate shoes for children in the islands poor areas to motivate them to go to school. A Tempo English report in the spirit of Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development on December 5.
December 13, 2016
New Posts, New Homes
Edi Fadhil initiates a movement to raise funds to build new houses for poor families. So far, he has raised more than Rp1 billion for 25 houses in Aceh.
A kmal Daud is satisfied with the new home in the village of Biara Timur, North Aceh. The small 6x6-meter brick house that Akmal helped build last year is modest, but the family who lives in it, Muhammad Yusuf, his wife and their four small children, are grateful to have a perm
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