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Developing Eco-Friendly Sustainable Community Businesses
YCAB believes that the biggest step a community can make towards its
own sustainable recovery is when it is helped to produce its own income
instead of being reliant on hand-outs. With this in mind YCAB and its
partners have worked tirelessly to redevelop the economies of affected
communities. Typically, this is done by conducting programs in
association with community leaders and local governments. These are
just some examples of the economic revival projects we are engaged in.
In the future we hope to increase the scope of these projects, not just
in disaster struck areas, but in every place where poverty is rife.
• In Nias we are currently working to provide scholarships,
teacher-training and vocational counselling services, thanks to the
generous funding of His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Monaco and the Monaco Asia Society.
• In Nias, working with United in Diversity (UID), we built fishing vessels so that local fishermen could resume their work.
• In ACEH, Wellspring (USA)
joined with YCAB to further the initial TRIBAL consortium efforts. This
joint initiative increased the scope of the programs, with more
vocational skill classes, such as hair and beauty salon training, being
made available to the women of Aceh. Our aim was to increase their
earning capacity by providing them with seed money and equipping them
with the skills and basic entrepreneurial knowledge required to run
small businesses. Working in small groups, the women have to grow their
businesses to a certain level before they qualify to receive the sewing
machines or other equipment that form the basic capital to sustain
their businesses.
• In Jakarta through Rumah Belajar Cinta Anak Bangsa
we have been piloting a project where we offer paper recycling skills.
This has created jobs and employment opportunities and we hope to
develop this into a profit generator for Rumah Belajar. Though this is
currently a pilot scheme, we hope to be able to develop it sufficiently
to roll out similar recycling businesses throughout the country.
Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa (YCAB) is an independent non-profit social foundation started in August 1999. Founded out of concern for the increasing incidence of drug abuse amongst Indonesia’s youth, our main focus has been primary drug prevention in schools and communities.
As our programs developed, we began to see a clear link between poverty and drug abuse. Providing subsidized education and vocational training to out-of-school youth has become an important component of our primary prevention strategy and we have been successful in reducing the likelihood of involvement in high risk behaviour and drug using environments. The final step in our expansion has been to promote sustainable, income generating development programs in poor and disaster stricken areas of Indonesia that contribute to the improved health and livelihood of those communities..
