Sahabat Pulau is a youth-led, non-profit organization that aims to address education problems in Indonesia by supporting children's education. They operate community-based, sustainable projects involving local youth volunteers who mentor and motivate underprivileged children. Their goals are to increase children's motivation to continue studying, improve their reading and writing interests, and empower Indonesian youth to be aware of education issues through volunteering. They have established 12 Reading Houses across 6 provinces to help children continue basic education and rekindle a passion for learning.

2. BACKGROUND
BPS 2012  10.268 million
High number of drop out
student drop out from school
student
1,65% elementry school
56,9%
financial
2,33% middle school reason
High number of illiteracy Minister of Education (2009)
8,7 million student were illiterate
Indonesia has low level
Human Development
places 124 from 187 countries
Index
( 2011)

3. Who We are???
Sahabat Pulau
Sahabat Pulau is a community-based,
sustainable action-oriented project
that involves local youth to support
Indonesian children education

4. Who We Are
Sahabat Pulau is a youth-led, community-based, non-profit organization.
Together with local youth, we work to create sustainable action-oriented projects to help
addressing some education problems in Indonesia by supporting Indonesian children to
their further study. We help and motivate underprivileged children to continue their
formal basic education and re-introducing the passion for reading and writing. Our
programs enable Indonesian youth to contribute to be a volunteer and serve as the
child’s mentor, motivator and supporter.
Sahabat Pulau was established firstly as Indonesian Youth for Education (IYE) in
May 2011. We consist of young generation who share common interest in the
development of education (especially for children) in Indonesia. We have been operating
since January 2012. Now, we already have 12 “Rumah Baca Harapan” in six different
provinces, 112 candidates of ‘Kakak Asuh’ and 102 candidates of ‘Adik Asuh’ from all over
Indonesia.

5. GOAL
• Increase children’s motivation to
continue their study
• Improve children’s interests for
reading and writing

6. OBJECTIVE
Empowering the Indonesian Youth to be aware with educational
issues .
Encouraging the youth of Indonesia to active in volunteering
activities for education, as the way in self improvement and
Intellectual Social Responsibility.
Providing mentor and motivator (big sisters and brothers)) for
improvement of Indonesian children education
Evoke the spirit of reading and writing for youth and children

7. Who is Involved
This project is initiated by Alumni Associations with different
backgrounds but with the same goal for better education in
Indonesia. Moreover, our alumni are spread all over Indonesia.
Those are:
1. IELSP 2011
2. IYE Advisor
3. YES (Youth Exchange and Study)
4. Alumni of Kapal Pemuda Nusantara – KPN (National Youth
Ship Program)
5. Indonesia Canada Youth Exchange Program (ICYEP) –
Canada World Youth
6. CIMB Niaga Scholarship Community
7. University Student Volunteer & OSIS (Student Board)

9. Launching Rumah Baca Harapan (RuBaH) in Talang,
Central Jakarta.

10. Lauching “ Rumah Baca” in Sekkang Langga ( Jl. Poros Soroe –Massuwalie
village , Pinrang South Sulawesi 91261

11. Rumah Baca Harapan in Depok
Rumah Baca Harapan in Lampung Village, Garut
Learn English by Games
Crafting Sing a song

13. Next Project
Indonesia Youth Volunteer camp
One Youth One Children Program
Youth National Writing Competitions
Establishing more Rumah Baca Harapan/ Reading
and Learning House

14. How to Support us
Providing Trainer for capacity building Funding/Donate
Sahabat Or you can support
Being a trainer or providing
us by funding our
trainer to our committees Pulau
and volunteers how to programs to help us
Funding
manage project, improve achieve our goals to
organizational skills, and make a better
keep high motivation in Indonesia.
ourselves. And also
improve our skills, Book Donation Volunteer / Kakak Asuh
creativities and
knowledges in order to Thus, through this Being a volunteer to help us
teaching, motivating, proposal we kindly for teaching in RuBaH,
educating, and supporting request the collection organizing RuBaH, and also
adik asuh and children.
of books, magazines, participating on Sahabat
learning CD, or other Pulau’s activities/events. Or
educational you can being a “kakak
supplement for the asuh” to motivating,
society . mentoring, or supporting
“adik asuh”.

15. http://sahabatpulau.org/
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