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.