Youth Action on COVID-19 Response

Location: Indonesia (Jembrana, Bali)

Indonesia, especially Bali, is also facing the current global issue regarding COVID-19. However, rarely did the government touch what children need. Mostly, the actions or recovery supports were focused on doing disinfectant spraying or family daily needs support. Hence, we were so motivated to make a project in our local environment, especially in Jembrana, namely Youth Actions on COVID-19 Response which we divided into two kinds of actions, dealing with children mental health & education, and food/nutrition.

To give the children mental and psychosocial support, we listened to them and provided fun activities so they could understand and learn in a fun way about what they "must do" and "may not do", and how to become a LITTLE HERO during this pandemic. This project was supported by Bali Institute who provided us with 300 pcs of children’s activity books about COVID-19. In doing this project, we empowered the local youths. Beforehand, we gave them some training on how to communicate with the children, how to educate children, and about their safety as well. On the next day, all local youth visited houses and orphanages and did the action we planned. In addition, we also gave some books and stationaries to the children.

We also collaborated with other communities (daridesaku, Tourism Ambassador of Jembrana, Children Ambassador of Jembrana, and some other communities) to do fundraising (by asking donation, starting from only IDR 5,000) for helping our local farmers with their farm yields issue. We consider them as a vulnerable group of people as their tons of vegetables they had planted were wasted during this pandemic. So, we bought their vegetables from the fund we had gathered and we distributed those vegetables to some children orphanages in Jembrana. It was so heartbreaking to hear that some children orphanages were struggling to survive as their sponsors stopped supporting them due to the economic crisis during this pandemic. Thankfully, those veggies could help them to keep providing nutritious food for the children.

Support

Our project is not facing any funding shortages.

Other needs: Volunteers, Access to information, Space for online meetings.

See more: We haven't own any official social media yet, but we are on our way to manage it.
However, here are some other pictures of this project:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBnPMxUnSdH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
or https://www.instagram.com/p/CBh6qxRH-AU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

For more information contact covid19@unmgcy.org