Pelita Foundation Lombok

Pelita Kids learning to recognize and read letters in our basic literacy class

Since covid 19 pandemic in 2020, one of our focus programs is literacy class.

Why is literacy?
1) Based on data from the “Indonesia Reading Literacy Activity Index”, West Nusa Tenggara Province is one of the three provinces with the lowest Proficiency Dimension Index
(https://www.lpwntb.or.id/ntb-krisis-literasi/)

(https://publikasiilmiah.ums.ac.id/bitstream/handle/11617/6371/Asmadi.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

2) We meet some kids who still find difficulty to read and count in elementary and secondary level. Also, based on information from some teachers and NGOs in some remote areas in south Lombok, they are facing many of their students/ supported kids are find difficulty in reading and counting

3) During the pandemic, offline classrooms in formal schools stopped. They are switching to online classrooms, teacher's home visits, or shifting classroom activity where students only do join offline classroom for 2-3 hours per day. Online classroom is fine for those kids who live in the city with good access to the internet, but will be a big problem for those who live in remote areas such as
- difficulty internet access;
- parents do not have enough knowledge and time to assist the learning process;
- they do not have proper/ comfy place to learn (houses are small and crowded).

The limited time of offline learning aggravates difficulty for remote area kids to read and count, because they do not have enough books to practice and teachers to guide.

Thus, Pelita Foundation initiates to run literacy classes from Monday to Thursday which divided into two levels:
-Basic literacy for those who still find difficulty in reading and counting
- Medium literacy for those who already able to read and count where we will help them develop their reading comprehension, simple writing, and speaking through story telling.

If you wanna hold their hands to their bright future, you can be their "lighter" for their starting path by giving donation start from $ 5/ month or Rp. 50.000,- by clicking our donation link below:
https://www.pelitafoundationlombok.org/donate/

Your simple step will enlighten their future

Late Post: Commemorate Independence Day by Pelita Kids

Happy Independence Day Indonesia for 76 years.

17th of August is one of most waited day every year in Indonesia, especially children, because we usually celebrate the day with various fun and unique races and activities.

There are some races which identically with celebration such as:
- cracker eating race
- marbles on spoon race
- tug of war
- pins climbing
- sack race
etc.

Today, Pelita kids celebrate the day with only some races:
- cracker eating race
- marbles on spoon race
- telling story
- singing national anthem

They are so excited and happy.
Thank you to all pelita's teachers and donors, thus, they can celebrate the day.

Learning English is Fun

Pelita's children are having English class four times a week with lovely teachers.

Although number of students are decrease during covid 19, but their spirit are still great to join the class.

They hope covid 19 pandemic is over soon, thus, they can meet many tourists visit their village. They wanna do practice for English speaking with native speakers

🧐Sneak peak for our new project for schools 🧐

In the middle of 2018, Lombok was struck by devastating earthquake up to 7 magnitude.
Even though it still leaves trauma to people in this island especially in north lombok, but, they can move on and do recovery quicker.

However, till 2021, there are still many schools which buildings are collapse or severely damage do not receive permanent building form government. Some of them are still rely on emergency buildings or tents to carry out learning activities.
They state that it is because sometimes the disbursement of rehabilitation funds from the government requires time and a long bureaucracy, while support from private sectors are not enough to encompass all of those damage schools.

Supported by our partner and Government of West Nusa Tenggara which previously also support pelita for pop up school project (temporary school building in 2018-2020), we will do re-construction of permanent building for those schools, but using plastic block/eco brick.

The foundation for our first school is in progress done by qualified local construction company, while our eco brick from Finland will arrive in hours to Lombok.

Do you wanna know why, what, and how is our "plastic block schools"?
Just keep you updated with our posts 😉

Drawing and coloring are the most favorite activities in our class

We use those methods in all of our classes because they have many functions:

1) helps them to be more expressive

Children can’t always express themselves using words and actions, so drawing is another important form of communication. You can gain an insight into their thoughts and feelings through their drawings. Being able to express what they feel also boosts a child’s emotional intelligence.

2) enhances their motoric skills

From a small scribble to a masterpiece that takes pride of place on the fridge, drawing can enhance your their motor skills from a young age. Starting them as early as possible will help them improve their hand and eye coordination, while fine-tuning their finger muscles.

3) Develops their problem solving skills

When drawing, a child is faced with multiple decisions- whether it’s ‘what colour should I use here?’ or ‘How do I draw a animal and connect one part of its body to another?’ All these questions require them to solve problems.

4)Stimulate their imagination

Drawing enables their imagination to become more active. Each time they draw they access their imagination and make physical representations of what’s in their mind.

1st One community event - May 29, 2021

Pelita Lombok Foundation is member of . A community in south lombok which unites expats, private business, government institutions, local stakeholders, and charities to work together to support local community and children activities.

There are 18 charities for the 1st event, but will encompass more charities in lombok island for working together (gotong royong) to reach one dream one island one goal : creating well being and advance local community and bright future for children

In this event, Pelita Lombok Foundation explains the activities for kids, games with kids, sewing groups products, and free design totebag to take home for visitors as support to reduce plastic bag.

Meet our other members and follow to keep updated for our next event😉


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Our children back to the literacy class after long weekend of eid mubarak.

They are so happy to read books and do story telling to their friends about what they read.

During covid 19 pandemic where public schools in rural and remote areas just open the class for 1-2 hours per day, various learning community centers and activities are very helpful for children.

Pelita Lombok Foundation provides library and various classes activities for children to support their learning. Not only English classes, or various crafting activities, but our teachers also help children to learn their major subjects of public schools

On this special we ask for your support in keeping our essential programs running for our 200+ students. 📚🧕🏽

Please show your support at www.pelitafoundationlombok.org/donate 🙏🙌

As soon as we can, we will continue providing our students with vital education and skills for living healthy and prosperous lives!

This week we have been working with the local community to set up hand- and bike-sanitation stations for people entering Gerupuk village, and to put up information posters about preventing and recognising COVID-19 symptoms. Stay safe (and stay home) everyone! 🙏😷

Today Gerupuk’s Corona Task Force were briefed, and the information was well received. The 10 members were supplied with: a CHECKLIST of the key things to know and do; INFORMATION POSTERS about prevention, symptoms and what to do if someone has symptoms; and NECK TAGS with the phone numbers for the COVID-19 emergency service and other important numbers.

Members also discussed village policies regarding visitors to the village, restaurants and businesses, etc.

We hope to stock more basic protective materials, and to support the local clinics as much as possible. Please donate a small amount if you can! Details and updates at https://fundrazr.com/61ddb9?ref=ab_d2U1O2

Thanks so much to everyone for your support so far 🙏🙌 – we have just received the first of our supplies! With the help of some proactive community members, we have put together a local Task Force to act as a resource for the community – distributing information, reporting sick people to local clinics, reporting numbers, etc. Please support us if you can – small donations are VERY welcome!! See link for details and updates: https://fundrazr.com/61ddb9?ref=ab_d2U1O2