Overcoming the limits of repetition.
Odesa Indonesia is a foundation for local agricultural movement, based in Cimenyan, north of Bandung. One of their activity is to provide care and classes to around fifty preschool- and school-age children from Cisanggarung and Sentak Dulang, Desa Cikadut and Desa Mekarmanik in Cimenyan. They are children who live in villages in the high mountains. They are given math and English classes, to support their studies in schools.
In the homes of these children, they don't have television. They can hardly go down to town. Few families who have parabolic antenna use it to watch dangdut music show. So these little boys and girls don't have high dreams. The ultimate in their aspiration is to become cashier of convinience stores and truck drivers, because it's all they can see, and our dreams fall within the confines of what we see.
But that's not all, in order to not become economic burden for their families, girls are ofter given as brides when they have finished the first school cycle, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, by forging documents to pass the rules of minimum age to get married.
Therefore, this foundation teaches them lessons in English, talks about other kind of works and profession, to try to break the chain that binds them to this monotonous limited view of life, to end this vicious circle, which is well summed up by one of the founders of Odesa: "when the poor get married to the poor, giving birth to the poor, without any evolution." Culture is always the best weapon.
Odesa Indonesia is a foundation for local agricultural movement, based in Cimenyan, north of Bandung. One of their activity is to provide care and classes to around fifty preschool- and school-age children from Cisanggarung and Sentak Dulang, Desa Cikadut and Desa Mekarmanik in Cimenyan. They are children who live in villages in the high mountains. They are given math and English classes, to support their studies in schools.
In the homes of these children, they don't have television. They can hardly go down to town. Few families who have parabolic antenna use it to watch dangdut music show. So these little boys and girls don't have high dreams. The ultimate in their aspiration is to become cashier of convinience stores and truck drivers, because it's all they can see, and our dreams fall within the confines of what we see.
But that's not all, in order to not become economic burden for their families, girls are ofter given as brides when they have finished the first school cycle, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, by forging documents to pass the rules of minimum age to get married.
Therefore, this foundation teaches them lessons in English, talks about other kind of works and profession, to try to break the chain that binds them to this monotonous limited view of life, to end this vicious circle, which is well summed up by one of the founders of Odesa: "when the poor get married to the poor, giving birth to the poor, without any evolution." Culture is always the best weapon.
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| Cisanggarung, Cimenyan,15 October 2017 |
It is not what you do BUT what you taught to the children...that will make them a successful person @nitaRAF
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