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From Household Mother to Teacher With Bachelor Degree

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This is a successful story of a household mother called Edi Yuniari, graduated from Teacher Education School. Edi Yuniari become the only teacher with Bachelor Of Early Education Degree at Alfa Omega School. Here is her story:

It all started in 2009. As a household mother who had to provide for three children without having a job after my husband has passed away, the situation became more difficult. One day, Ms. Mety (Operations & Administration Manager of Alfa Omega Schools in Jakarta and Depok) proposed me to work as teacher at Marunda Alfa Omega School – I was interviewed the next day.

On 29 July 2009, I was accepted as Marunda Alfa Omega School teacher. This was the beginning of my life where I started to see light at the end of the tunnel and I saw this as a solution to provide for my children so that they will have a bright and promising future ahead.

As for my hobby, I have talents in creating artistic crafts, including song writing. The Mars song at Alfa Omega School was the result of my creation. In 2012 YCARE Jakarta and AOC Perth gave me scholarship to pursue and continue my education as early childhood teacher until on 22 February 2017, I successfully attained Bachelor of Early Childhood Education degree.

“I would also like to give my sincere thanks to all the leaders in YCARE who have accepted me as a resident at Residence-12, Depok for I have never own a permanent place to live – always renting at squared houses. Even in 2016, I had the privilege to teach Early Childhood at R-12, Depok and currently I serve as the Principal at Depok Alfa Omega School. Once again thank you very much from the bottom of my heart, God bless.”

EDI Yuniari.

The story about Alfa Omega School teacher named Dedi Surya

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Dedi joined one of our Schools that we sponsored in 2009, as an Early Childhood Teacher Assistant. As time went by, along with his commitment and work ethics, he was given an opportunity to teach in Program A for students who could not complete high school.

During his time as a teacher, Dedi, who only had a Diploma certificate, had always wanted to continue his study to University for a Bachelor Degree in Education. In 2012, AOC provided Dedi with a scholarship to further his education.

He enrolled in Open University in Teaching Education and in September 2017, to God’s glory, he completed his education and attained the Bachelor Degree of Education.

Words of Gratitude from Dedi Surya,

“I would like give my heartfelt thank you to all AOC Sponsors who have assisted and supported me by giving me scholarship so that I can have a bright future ahead of me. I hope the wisdom I have attained can be lent to the advancement of AOC School and to the nation. God bless the committee leaders and sponsors of AOC.”

His story has really touched our heart, as what we are doing is not only blessing the students but also the teachers who have been putting their effort and heart for the kids.

This aligns with our vision- to be an agent of change for poverty alleviation through education and empowerment of young people. Thank you for being part of it.

True Story of AOS Students Called Sigit and Sarah

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“A true story of Alfa Omega School students Sigit & Sarah who are 2 siblings and children in need living in Jakarta and their former lives before attending school. We love to bring relief and happiness to children. We want Sigit & Sarah to go to school and learn, grow up and follow their dreams. We want to make our children shine. Sigit & Sarah finally attend our Alfa Omega School in Jakarta and they truly deserve the good quality education that we provide.”

Sigit and Sarah – AOS Students

“A true story of Alpha Omega School students Sigit & Sarah who are 2 siblings and children in need living in Jakarta and their former lives before attending school. We love to bring relief and happiness to children. We want Sigit & Sarah to go to school and learn, grow up and follow their dreams. We want to make our children shine. Sigit & Sarah finally attend our Alfa Omega School in Jakarta and they truly deserve the good quality education that we provide.” Kindly visit www.australiaoikoscare.org for more information and Like Our Facebook for more updates to come.

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School Visit February 2018

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Our new CEO, Mr. Dharma Sutedja, recently in February 2018 had the opportunity to thankfully visit Alfa Omega School (in cooperation with YCare Foundation, Jakarta) in Marunda North Jakarta to meet with school children and dedicated teachers and to get to know them better. In this opportunity, he deeply discussed with the teachers and staff about our school activities (teaching and learning process), school values, good quality education for our school children, teachers training & development and school improvements in general. While visiting the school, he was also handing out healthy foods and drinks to the school children.

We trust that these school children are rightfully given the good quality education and key learning process and they are deservedly equipped with the right behaviours, values and mindset right at their very early stage of education so that they can embrace the opportunity to learn and grow in their important studies and achieve their full education potentials in their well-being as good students in the foreseeable future. To be able to do all these good works, we surely need your continuing donations, financial support and generosity for Australia Oikos Care.

We truly thank and deeply appreciate all the teachers and staff for their precious time, dedication, endeavours and tremendous contribution in making this Alfa Omega School worthy and successful for the local communities there. May God bless these schools, children and teachers as well as the school staff for the many years to come. To God be the glory.

Catfish Farming

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As one of our important projects in Indonesia, Residence 12 has been providing many contribu­tions, benefits and opportunities for the local community in the surroundings and neighbor­hood of Depok, a small town of about 35 km south of Jakarta.
To embrace these opportunities, our team at Residence 12 has successfully taken on and set up a catfish farm at the large backyard of our Residence 12 complex.

This catfish farm was initially started in March 2017 with a catfish pond measuring 2.5m x 3m built in the backyard of the complex. We successfully harvested our first catfish crops of approximately 500 big catfish in June 2017 and we expect to expand this project milestone even more in the near future. To increase our catfish farm production capacity and to generate continuing stream of revenue and net income for our Residence 12 cash.flow needs, we have planned to gradually build more catfish ponds on the backyard which we antici­pate for the ponds to be completed and ready by September 2017. To support and expand this target, we will buy more catfish seeds to help accelerate our project and to produce catfish crops even more in the foreseeable future.

It is our hope that our catfish farming project will continue to succeed and be able to provide a good income for our Residence 12 staff as part of our sincere contribution to the local community there. Therefore, your donation and generosity will be very important for us to realize this hope and in order for this project to proceed further and to be sustainable.

Residence 12 – Place Of Joy, Place Of Faith, Place Of Hope

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Residence 12 is an estate that provides a home for orphans and the elderly. The estate was inaugurated on 12 December 2012, located in Jakarta, Indonesia. The vision and mission is to safe 12 children, which has been casted away by their parents, and pairing them with an elderly couple that has a passion and love in raising and developing those children. The concept is to raise those children in a family environment with the most care and love, to ultimately making their life better in the future.
Residence 12 was named as we decided to pick 12 orphans and dedicated elders so caring and teaching can be maximized hoping they will grow up to be leaders in their chosen field. There is specific criteria that differentiate Residence 12 with other orphanage schools, we chose those children that really wanted to learn and go to school but were faced with economic difficulties. Another criteria was to save babies that were abandoned or rejected by their parents.As for the elder­ly, they need to have skills or creativity that can add value to those kids/orphans. At the moment there are 4 young adults, 1 toddler and 1 elderly.

They lived in Residence 12 like a family and they don’t discrim­inate between another. There is no harsh punishment to orphans even though we encourage discipline.

They lived in Residence 12 like a family and they don’t discrimi­nate between another. There is no harsh punishment to orphans even though we encourage discipline.
“At Residence 12, we want to encourage discipline in a family environment. The young adults treated me like their big sister here, as well as for Mrs Edi (the only elderly here at the momentJ, she has been referred to as their mother by the young adults” Michelle stated as one of Residence 12 organiser.