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CEO Message, 1st November 2019

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Making Life Better, Transforming Life and Shaping the Future of Children & Communities.

By God’s grace, it has been a fruitful and exciting year for Australia Oikos Care (AOC) for the entire year of our blessed journey, great efforts and dedication in making AOC grow and prosper.

May we take this wonderful moment to thank all donors, sponsors, partners, teams and volunteers very much for their tremendous support, donation, generosity and kindnesses. It’s the time to recognize the progress and results that we have made this year. It can be a continuing powerful motivator for AOC to think about opportunities to expand and contribute in the years ahead.

Our Alfa Omega Schools in Bantargebang, Marunda, R12 Depok and Batam, as well as 3 other schools that we have given support in Indonesia, have been operating successfully this year.

As we have continued our efforts and work together with our partners in Indonesia to expand our schools, we have recently entered and signed a new partnership with Efata Bali Foundation in October 2019. We will help Efata AOC Bali School renovate and upgrade their school buildings and classrooms in December 2019 as they have 43 students. This has truly marked our continuing best efforts and dedication to geographically expand our schools to other provinces in Indonesia, Making life better, transforming lives and shaping the future of children and communities.

As we started the year, we had 29 teachers and more than 320 students studying and learning at our schools. Today, AOC operates 5 main schools and 3 other schools and has 425 students including Paket A, B & C (Primary to High School) programs, a robust growth of 34% over the start of the year. This achievement would not have been possible without your continued support, donation, sponsorship and generosity as well as all the teams, staff and volunteers involved who have worked tirelessly throughout the year in Indonesia and Australia.

We have been blessed to have dedicated board, management team, staff, teachers and volunteers helping our schools and students to continue to flourish in Indonesia.
We wish our schools in Indonesia great success in their future endeavours. God bless.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE AND WE WILL!

Sincerely,
Dharma Sutedja Chief Executive Officer

Official Opening of Alfa Omega School Batam

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Official Opening of Alfa Omega School Batam

By the grace of God, we are so delighted to share with you all the joyous moment of the opening of Alfa Omega School Building in Batam and the official launching of the new pre-school program for children on 25th July 2019. This memorable occasion will allow Alfa Omega School Batam to start providing classes and programs and at the same time look to the future of providing the children with continuous quality education and learning process that they truly deserve.

Education is a life-long pursuit for all our young children. The newly renovated building, classrooms and hall of the building block provides new facilities and a much-improved learning environment for boys and girls of Alfa Omega School Batam. We can imagine how excited teachers and students are as they have started the new school.

We are increasingly aware of the interaction between physical spaces and learning environment as well as a learning culture. It is not the building alone but It is the human spirit and good interaction between teachers and students which will make the difference for its future success.

God bless Alfa Omega School Batam.

July 2019 – CEO Message

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Transforming Life and Making Life Better!

With deep appreciation and gratitude, we would like to take this opportunity to thank our valued donors, sponsors, partners, stakeholders and volunteers for their continued efforts, financial support, generosity and loyalty in helping and making Australia Oikos Care succeed in its mission to date.

We have been working untiringly and hand-in-hand with all the teams and volunteers involved to achieve our vision, mission and objectives. We have had a fruitful year and our long-term organizational objectives for 2019 through to 2022 have been developed to continue the good health of our organization business. Good online platforms capable of delivering targeted fundraising results are currently operating well. Also, we have teamed up in a partnership and collaboration with New Life Foundation Australia successfully.

AOC through YCARE Indonesia has started a study program called PACE (Program for Able Children and Education) where we have, in addition to Package A (Primary School) program, started Package B (Secondary School) and Package C (High School) programs as well at our school for the years 2019 to 2022. A new pre-school in Batam (Alfa Omega School Batam) has been established and the new school would commence their activities in mid July 2019. As part of our geographical expansion to reach out to many more children in Indonesia, we have identified a potential school project located in Bali. We hope to help funding and partnering with this school in Bali before the end of 2019.

We remain focused on the strategies we have in place to realize our vision. We are passionate and determined to become a game changer in quality education and empowerment to equip and provide ample opportunities to disadvantaged children and young people in Indonesia. Our focus is on creating lasting school initiatives that will impact change 5 and 10 years into the future.

We all look forward to expanding our schools and community development in the years ahead to transforming lives and making life better and shaping the future of children.

Yours sincerely,

Dharma Sutedja
AOC CEO

Australia Oikos Care be part of June Grill’d Applecross Local Matters

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Making Life Better Through Education for Disadvantaged Children

In this opportunity we would like to say thank you to Grill’d Applecross that helped us to raise money from the community by donating each of the tokens from their sales. We’ve been chosen by the community in Grill’d Applecross for the month of June, of their Local Matters program they run every month.

We are receiving $300 from Grill’d Applecross Local Matters as a part of their program in helping the community. It’s a great opportunity for Australia Oikos Care (AOC) to spread the word to the community around us, and we hope you can participate in our program to help the disadvantaged children in Indonesia. Our new school in Batam is about to open this July and we are asking for your generous donation to support our new school. Together we are making life better through education.

To support us you can wire transfer your donation to :
Australia Oikos Care, 
Commonwealth Bank Australia, 
Perth, Western Australia 
BSB: 066 163, Account No. 1051 1952
Or you can visit our donation page.


A Significant Milestone of Partnership and Collaboration in First Quarter 2019

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By the grace of God, Australia Oikos Care (AOC) has received a significant grant and sponsorship commitment from New Life Foundation Queensland Australia (NLF).  NLF and AOC have mutually agreed to form collaboration and partnership to advance a vision and joint endeavours with multiyear goals to further our Alfa Omega School Marunda Paket A, B and C programs in Indonesia. Our sincere appreciation and a big thank you to NLF for their strong support, grant and generosity.

This is a significant milestone and has truly marked a trust, recognition and commitment placed by NLF on us to implement, execute and coordinate the endeavours hand-in-hand to expand and grow our Alfa Omega School Marunda Paket A, B and C programs for a three year period from July 2019 through to June 2022.

We are strongly committed, determined and passionate to make this happen. We all are planting seeds and investing for the school children’s long-term future growth and success through our school and the quality education we provide. Together we can make a big difference!

An Exciting News of Our Alfa Omega School Batam Indonesia

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We trust you all had a good start of the year and that you all are always in the pink of health.

As we enter the second quarter of 2019, we have made good progress and achievement for our schools in Indonesia.

As mentioned on the last CEO Message, we are excited to inform you all that we are going to bless more children and family through education , We have officially signed a partnership agreement with Yayasan Setia Melayani Sesama (YSMS) Batam and Global Development Group Australia to set up our new Alfa Omega School in Batam during the first quarter. AOS Batam has bought school equipment and facilities and started the student registration and admission process in the run up of the upcoming opening of the new school in July. We are hopeful to be able to provide the good learning environment and programs for school children in Batam, Riau Province, Indonesia.

CEO Message 2019

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Pay it forward – giving a donation and contribution to make a big difference to school children in need.

It has been an exciting year and may we take this opportunity to thank all donors, sponsors, partners and volunteers for your continued support, donation, generosity and kindness. It’s the time to review our goals and the progress we have made in achieving them. It can be a powerful motivator to think about opportunities for us to grow and contribute in this coming year.

Our Alfa Omega Schools in Bantargebang, Marunda and R12 Depok have been operating fruitfully and we have been blessed to have a dedicated management team, staff, teachers and volunteers helping our schools and students to grow in Indonesia. Additionally, this year we have been privileged to start the working year with the progress of renovation of our would be the school in Batam in which we expect to commence in July 2019 (seen here in pictures).

As we unite our efforts and work together with our partner (Yayasan Setia Melayani Sesama/YSMS) in Batam to address the needs of a new school for pre-school children there, this has led us to make a donation, give a contribution and provide support to our partner (YSMS) in renovating the school building and classrooms since January 2019. We have introduced our partner (YSMS) to Global Development Group Australia and they have mutually signed and entered into an entity and project agreement as part of the Global Development Group requirements to enable for the new school project to start. We wish the new school every success in their future endeavours.

Sincerely,

Dharma Sutedja
CEO

An Official Visit to Alfa Omega School Bantargebang, Bekasi

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As part of our CEO and Board of Advisor regular official visit to Australia Oikos Care School Projects in Indonesia, our CEO, Dharma Sutedja and Board of Advisor, Ferdy Wijaya have recently visited Alfa Omega School in Bantargebang, Bekasi to meet teachers, parents, school children and staff.

They are warmly welcomed and deeply touched by the dedication and commitment of our teachers there to teach and develop our school children wholeheartedly. During the visitation and fruitful meeting with the teachers and staff, they have shared and given the teachers and staff some valuable advices and directions for the school development and teaching improvements in general.

We firmly believe that our school is in the good hands to grow and develop our children. The key to children’s bright future and good life is to give and equip the children with good quality education and values so that they can achieve their dreams in the future. We shall continue to love and nurture children as best as we can and shall never stop to educate, equip, grow and develop them …

A Fruitful visitation to AOS Bantargebang

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It was an exciting day for me personally since the last time I, Christine Fenhart,  visited one of the school was approximately 5 years ago before my daughters were born. We had done lots of preparation prior to the visitation with Bu Mety’s help because we wanted to give the best to the kids and the teachers at the beginning of the school year (In Indonesia the new school year starts in July instead of January).

Thankfully, we managed to get many donations and reached the target needed for the visitation which to give each students new bag, school stationeries, a proper meal, milk and also snacks. On top of that we get additional donations from local donators like vitamins and milk.

When we arrived we were greeted by the kids, they all gathered wearing the blue school uniform and sang welcome to all of us in Indonesia. Then a group of young dancers performed and they did really well dancing to the song “disini senang disana senang” with the other kids singing and cheering.

After that it was our chance to be in charge of the event, we danced together we learnt baby shark dance, chicken dance, it was really really fun!
It was continued with games – the kids really enjoyed it and the ones that managed to win the game was given lollies and milk and we welcomed other kids around the area to join.

When it comes to the serious business, I was so pleased to hear on that day along with the other 55 students who attended, we also had around 10 of the AOS Bantar Gebang alumni and all of them who continued to study to Junior High School they all managed to achieve high marks and all of the effort of has not gone in vain. Since there were lots of student parents who came along as well, Bu Mety (YCare) and Bu Maya (principal) were encouraging them to support the kids for their education instead of asking the kids to earn money by picking up rubbish.

I would like to give just a little background of the area where the school is located Bantar Gebang – it is where most of the rubbish from Jakarta goes to, I have to admit the place is unpleasant for average people because of the smell and also the unhygienic condition. It is a sad reality however I am just so blessed by the dedication of the YCare staff, Bu Maya as the principal and also all the teachers that not only have to educate the kids in this challenging environment, they also have to educate the parents the importance of school and education for the kids future which is a long term investment.

That is the reason why when it was my turn to speak, I invited everyone to give a HUGE ROUND of applause to these unsung heroes, teachers and staffs that dedicate their lives for others. Nelson Mandela once said that education is a powerful tool to change the world, the teachers and we all as the donators are sowing seeds, watering these kids life, it is a challenging and can be a costly investment that a lot of us won’t receive a direct benefit however we can see the impacts this school is making to the community and the kids life’s.

From illiterate, they can now read, write, then they can continue their study to higher education maybe in 10-20 years time there will be successful story of the kids who started their school journey from AOS Bantar Gebang, who knows.

Thank you to all the donators and all my colleague who have supported us all of these time and you all have played a part in changing these kids and community’s future.

“Alone we can do little and together we can do so much”
~ Helen Keller

CEO Message – Financial Year 2017/2018

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Dear Our Valued Donors, Sponsors, Partners and Volunteers,

I would like to take a moment to thank our valued donors, sponsors, partners and volunteers for your loyalty, generosity and continued support over the past twelve months. I truly recognise we wouldn’t be where we are without the help and contributions made by each of you. I highly appreciate all of these.

Australia Oikos Care has had an exciting year actively leading, managing, overseeing, funding and assisting our school projects in Indonesia and we have established good and strong working relationships with our partners as part of our responsibility for the safekeeping and good health of our organisation business. With your continued help and support, we will once again see Australia Oikos Care continue to growing strongly during 2018/2019 financial year.

There are many ways to continue growing our school projects and community development. We have planned to explore and expand our projects and community development to some other region in Indonesia and we will seek partnership and grant to support our projects. There are still many decisions to be made in the near future and as such, improvements and changes will be made following input and consultation with the Board of Advisors, donors, sponsors and partners. By the grace of God and with more streamline and efficient operations, we expect to be able to achieve this by mid next year.

I look forward to working closely with you all and wish you a successful and prosperous year ahead.

 

Sincerely,

 

Dharma Sutedja

Chief Executive Officer