Teach 3000 Indonesian Children to Read

Dear Supporters,

We want to thank you for your support over the past few months! Because of your help, we can continue training teachers and delivering books to schools. So that together with local schools, we are seeing Indonesian children grow a love for reading!

New Location
In recent years, our partnership with a partner in Kalimantan has grown significantly (you may have read about this in previous updates). We are happy to share that we have now also started working with them in a new location: the island of Sumbawa. The need for quality reading education remains very high there. For example, the 'Laporan Pendidikan Indonesia' report states that 37.5% of primary school students in that area are still below the 'minimum level.'
Through this collaboration, we hope to achieve the following in this first year:

• 21 teachers will be equipped with the curriculum and training
• 5 schools will receive books and Saya Suka Membaca (SSM) curriculum materials
• The Saya Suka Membaca curriculum will be applied consistently, supported by mentoring

Equipped (again)
During the training in Sumbawa, we met Mrs. Atun, a senior teacher who has been teaching for around 30 years. For 27 of those years, she taught older students (Grade 5 and 6). This school year, she was assigned to teach Grade 2, and she felt a bit worried because she had been thinking about how to teach younger students after so many years with older ones. Now, she’s equipped with the right curriculum to teach her students how to read. After the training, she said, "Now I feel ready to teach Grade 2 students!"

Salam Literasi, 

Dear Supporters,

We would like to express our gratitude for the continued support we receive from all of you. Your contributions enable us to train more teachers and inspire a love for reading among Indonesian children.

Update of Sabu, Kupang and Kalimantan
One of our dreams this year was to initiate a project in Sabu, a region in NTT facing significant educational challenges (we wrote about this in our previous update). Unfortunately, we have not yet met the specific funding goals for this project, so we cannot proceed at this time. However, we are grateful for the connections we have made with the local governments and remain hopeful that we will be able to start a project in Sabu in the coming years.

We are also pleased to report new opportunities in other locations. In the Kupang area (also in NTT) and on the large island of Kalimantan, we have established new partnerships. These collaborations enable us to train over 40 teachers and introduce our materials to many children for the first time.

Training in Malang
Another highlight we would love to share with you is our recent training in Malang (Java). Thanks to various donations, we had the opportunity to train 16 dedicated teachers there. It was a mixed group and some of these teachers work with street children and some of them work in remote villages across Indonesia. Both different contexts, but with the same need! It is encouraging for our team to see our materials being used in such places, where the need is so great.

Expanding Our Network
Once again, we are really grateful for your support of the Saya Suka Membaca projects. But we would like to ask you to consider who else might be interested in supporting literacy in Indonesia and the work we are doing at Saya Suka Membaca. We would love to connect with new individuals or organisations who could support our efforts and help us expand the reach of our training and projects.

Ayo! Suka Membaca!

Salam Literasi,