Aku Bisa
Aku Bisa
Aku Bisa is a service initiative dedicated to supporting students in Indonesia. Participants of this CCA meet once a week to plan teaching sessions, discuss other learning opportunities for students and conduct fundraising to support Rumah Belajar Parousia.
Teaching sessions take place on Saturday mornings online using video call software with participants taking it in turn to teach lessons. Lessons primarily focus on business by providing students with lessons on social media marketing, business management and e-commerce. Concurrently, SJII students help with business ideation, starting of their own small online businesses often using an online system called Tokopedia.
CAS Strand: Service
This CCA aligns with the Service strand of CAS as students are able to learn and address the community's needs while also benefiting them. Furthermore, through Aku Bisa and our interactions with the children in Parousia Study Home and other parts of Indonesia, we are able to make a meaningful contribution to society as well as building personal characteristics like self-awareness and open-mindedness.
Through Aku Bisa, members will be able to understand the struggles of people who live under the poverty line in remote places like eastern Indonesia such that we not only become more mindful of ourselves, but also of the struggles of those around us.
Lasallian Principles: Quality Education and Concern for the poor and Social Justice
Our CCA supports two of the five lasallian values. The first is “Concern for the Poor and Social Justice” as our initiative’s aim is to provide life skills for the children in Parousia Study Home whose families are unable to support them financially and live below the poverty line. Outside of school, most of them have also been helping their families work in farms and try to make a better living. One of the sustainable development goals that Aku Bisa focuses on includes reduced inequalities. We feel as though children who live in secluded areas have far less opportunities than students like us, thus not being able to grow into workers with high skillsets who can make a living of their own, stopping the vicious cycle of poverty in eastern Indonesia.
Another lasallian value we resonate with is “Quality education”, which is also a sustainable development goal we are working towards. We want to create and teach a curriculum that only provides standard education for the children, but also knowledge on how to make opportunities for themselves and subsequently evolve the community around them as well. After noticing the surge of small medium enterprises and the surge of the digital economy in Indonesia, we have noticed the many opportunities provided through this field. Unfortunately, people in remote places such as the NTT Province are not able to acquire these opportunities due to lack of access to modern education and technology. By introducing a business and technology curriculum, they will be able to have the skill to start their own enterprises and be a part of the digital economy, growing not only their own livelihoods but also the economy of their community.