Illuminated Humanity School: School for the Rainbow Guardian
When Anggunesia visited Illuminated Humanity (a.k.a. Nurani Insani) School on Saturday, March, 28th, Mr. Dedi just arrived with his 18 students. “We’re back from Ragunan Zoo, accompanying these young lads whose got ranked 1st & 2nd on their class, a presents for them”, he said. After kissing Mr. Dedi & Mamih’s back palm (nick name for Mr. Dedi’s wife), all of 18 students from 9 different classes were dismissed.
Illuminated Humanity School is a school (or more precisely, a learning house) which founded by Mr. Dedi Rosadi with his wife about 4 years ago in Petamburan, western Jakarta. Consist of ten main teachers (volunteers) teaching 1 kindergarten class, 6 elementary classes, and thrice a week of 2 B & C program classes (same level with Junior & Senior High School). The building of the school is just like a boarding house piling with 6 classes, an office and toilet; in the middle of Jakarta’s very inner core.
Students here are coming from streets youngsters, (street singer and beggar) in Petamburan and its surroundings. But don’t dare to imagine students walking in and out school as their mood, neither studying nor dressed without discipline. Distinguished by Stop-by-House, this is a formal school. Each student uniformed, has a report book, examined, and certificates. The different aspect is, all of these are free of charge by the foundation; a sweet fruit from managers’ hard work, and virtue from the non persistent contributors.
More than just a school…
Illuminated Humanity School students derive from the most destitute children of town who came on 6.30 every morning with strong gut to learn. For them, this school is the second house where they can also bathing, eating or resting for a while after “working’ on the street after the school. Mr. Dedi and Mamih, with teachers here could be said their parents, where they can complain, asks; not to mentioned teachers here also do cook and bathing the children occasionally.
Despite with all of their visible limitations, just keep on your pity my friend! We’re proud with this school and we can make it! At least that’s the impression which Anggunesia could captured from the enthusiasm of Mr. Dedi and Mamih when they’re explain students ardor, and brought Anggunesia take a sneak peak within it. And indeed, their achievements could be competing with other established well-being schools. In this school, started from elementary 3rd grade, children provisioned cooking, barbering, and sewing skills. In order they can stand on their own, and not eternally on the street.
The sensitivity and regard on this foundation not hitting cul-de-sac just like that. The caretaker, with its very limiting budget, also loaning debt approximately IDR 300 thousand to students’ parents whose needed. Not for the sake of their food necessity, but for financial capital opening work. What a real micro-credit!
What do they need?
Now on, they really need money to prolong next year school building lease (IDR 15 million/year). School operational expense also needed. IDR 8 million/month with logistic cost during school inclusive both 15 bench sets and second-hand teaching gadgets. Open hands for every kind of compassionate acts; unsalaried pupil, food, books, clothing, money, or children entertainment efforts.
What can we do?
From Anggunesia discussion so far, we’re planning to held a birthday party on the school with 4-6th grade elementary students (around 50 children), and due to space and fund limits that we could collect; the form of agenda could be:
* Birthday blessing: whishing and cut the cake…
* Art performance from school children (they are used to perform…)
* Hospitable and friendly sing a song with Mr. Charles
* Interactive games between the children and Anggunesia
* Any other ideas?
What do we need?
Something really matter is all friends involvement…ideas, energy, and of course, the fund.
Estimated budget for the agenda equipment (for 50 children, 15 teachers, 20 Anggunesia):
* Birthday cake IDR 450.000,00
* Soft drink IDR 100.000,00
* Eating feast IDR 100.000,00
* Games presents IDR 100.000,00
Our donation for the school:
* Whiteboard felt-tip marker & eraser IDR 200.000,00
* Reading books, used magazines IDR 250.000,00
* Milk box (for 200 children in total) IDR 800.000,00, once a week, the children scheduled drinking milk on the school
* Financial donation IDR 500.000 (will be added if our fund we had exceeding our expectation. Amen!)
Total fund we need IDR 2.500.000,00
What can we do then?
Based on Elevation pre-order enthusiasm, we should pray we could collect money as we wish for. Beside the fund, we could also give them other necessity we need, example reading books, cakes, games presents etc… The most important essence, everybody is involved.
Fund donation could be transferred to:
Account on behalf of IKA HENDRANI.
BCA: 4411196954
Mandiri: 070-00-0473140-7
BNI: 0140237406
Don’t forget to confirm to Ika after the transfer has been done. Immediately please, before the end of April, 2009.
So far, we’re planning to held the agenda on:
Day, date : Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
Time : 11-13.00 West Indonesian Time
Place : Illuminated Humanity School / Sekolah Nurani Insani, Petamburan St. III No.4 RT 04/04, West Jakarta
Sujet: AFG Anggunesia with Nurani INsani School 
is B coz they need our hands