ROTARY AUSTRALIA WORLD COMMUNITY SERVICE LTD
ACN: 003 444 264

FUNDING 36-2009-10 # INDONESIA
"Empowering Indonesian Children for
a Brighter Future"

Rotary Club of Southport PO Box 84, Southport Qld 4215

November 7, 2015

NEW SPONSORS NEEDED FOR
PROJECT 36-2009-10 # INDONESIA

Project 36-2009-10 # Indonesia was initiated over fifty years ago (1964) by the late Cyril Richarde, a charter member of Rotary Club of Southport (1945). Cyril, himself an orphan, visited Indonesia numerous times to establish contacts and formulate ways to assist impoverished children and orphans lacking basic funding for their education. He established a close liaison with the Salvation Army in Indonesia who manage numerous orphanages and children’s homes throughout Indonesia. They have operated the program in Indonesia from the beginning.

Rotary Club of Southport resumed management of this project in March, 2014 and has introduced a number of improvements in the operation of the project, updated the database and improved communications with donors. We are continuing to seek ways to provide donors with more information and to allow them to be better connected to their sponsored child. We are compiling a gallery of photographs of the children in our database and currently have almost 30% of the children’s photos digitally stored. These are available to forward to their respective sponsors on request.

Since its inception this project has assisted an estimated 2000 – 3000 students. At its peak this project provided funding for more than four hundred students per year, all from impoverished families. Sponsors donate AU$110 per child per year which goes a long way towards improving a student’s education. This is often more than the monthly earnings of many of the children’s families. Students benefit by being able to acquire school books, stationery, sometimes shoes and uniforms and other items beyond their normal resources and feel able to fit in to the school program like any other child. It is heartening to realise that thanks to the generosity and support of sponsors quite a few students have been able to continue on to higher education institutions and university, some with distinction.

In the twelve months to 31 December, 2014 $29,032 was donated to this project.

Currently 275 children are sponsored by 168 sponsors.

A number of our individual donors have supported this project for many years. Some are now quite elderly and it is difficult to find new ones. Following receipt of a batch of fresh applications from children needing financial assistance for their education there are approximately 50 children for whom sponsors are urgently sought.

Rotary Club of Southporthas entered into a Partnership Agreement with Rotary e-Club Jakarta Gunawarman to manage Project 36-2009-10 # Indonesia. Their involvement will facilitatebetter surveillance and auditing processes in Indonesia, using Rotary Clubs and other networks,to ensure that children sponsored are benefiting, in compliance with the aims of the project.It is also hoped that the involvement of Rotary Clubs in Indonesia will help to expand this program into further outposts in Indonesia. We look forward to receiving a report from them soon andafter reviewing the results of their inspections and recommendations we will compose a strategic planto take this project into the future.

We are conscious of the need to develop this project beyond appearing to merely provide welfare to the students we assist. We have engaged the help of both Salvation Army, Indonesia and the Rotary e-Club of Jakarta, to make this project sustainable; to create opportunities for selected students to become qualified as teachersor medical workers; and to plan an exit strategy. On this point, Salvation Army, Indonesia have indicated that they believe this project has a life of at least 15 years to run.

Tony Pritchett
(Manager,Project 36-2009-10 # Indonesia)

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