THE SCHOOL THAT SAYS ‘I CAN’ : Bisa school is a free school for slum kids in Jakarta in Indonesia

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http://aanirfan.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-school-that-says-i-can.html

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Bisa school is a free school for slum kids in Jakarta in Indonesia.Bisa school was set up by the British International School in Jakarta.

“Conceived,
designed and managed” by kids at The British International School,
Sekolah Bisa is a school for 25 shanty-dwelling primary children who
formerly did not get any school education.

 
 
Mayang
 
Mayang was a beggar on the streets.
 
Now she attends the Bisa school.
 
She’s one of the three female members of the Bintang Bisa! soccer team entered into the Jakarta Schools Football League. 
 

She wants to become a doctor.

 

Sekolah BISA, in Jakarta Indonesia, is on  Facebook“We took on something that Sisyphus might have shied away from in envisioning a school:

“The mindsets of parent and child long habituated to exclusion.

“The shanty’s communal lack of self belief.

“Our deep unfamiliarities with the culture.



Bisa


“The shanty itself hidden, seemingly impenetrable, overwhelming.



“The huge societal forces that had determined in advance a child should not go to school.

“Our own fears and ignorance.

“The lack of any precedent.”

Sekolah BISA – Jakarta, Indonesia – Education | Facebook



 

Sekolah Bisa (The School That Can) is on YouTube



Mudi



“Overall, Mudi is the most committed member of the school.”



A well and washroom at his home is being funded by the British International School’s ‘Spreading Smiles’ charity.



Asked if he was happy at Sekolah Bisa, he said, ‘Lebih dari pada senang’ – ‘More than happy.’



He likes reading and football.



Bisa School



Akbar



Akbar lives in a home that is 3 metres by 3 metres.



He used to pull a cart.



Andik



Andik never fails to thank his teachers at the end of the class. 



Andik was once a beggar and in was once hit by a bus. 



Ahmad 



Ahmad is a remarkably able child. 



Indra



Indra asked if he could become a student at Sekolah Bisa, and he is now enrolled.



Jefri



Jefri used to beg at the railway station. 



Ella 



Ella now has a birth certificate.



Many
shanty-dwelling children do not have birth certificates and are not
officially recognised as citizens of their own country. 



Yoga



Yoga is ‘a precocious and wonderfully aspirational child’.



He is ‘a great goalkeeper’.



Cici



Cici’s mother works as a maid.



Agung



Agung wants to be a footballer.



Lalita



Lalita want to become a policewoman.



Fini



Fini wants to become a doctor or teacher.



Lipah



Lipah wants to become a doctor or nurse.



Andrie



“Andri is a very frail student – but impeccably polite and attentive to his studies.” 



Jihan



Jihan used to pull a garbage cart.



Jihan is a delightfully mannered girl and likes writing.



Ikki



Ikki is often unwell ‘but is a lovely child’. He lives with his family in a wood hut.



Heni



Heni is ‘highly creative and talented’.



Rendy



Rendy is ‘remarkably witty and supportive of other’s learning. 



Rohmat and Rahmat



Rohmat and rahmat are twins.



“They belong to a very cooperative and functioning family.”



Anik



Adrian Thirkell, of the British International School, came across Anik filthy and crying at Bintaro railway station.



Now she is at Bisa, and is described as being quick thinking, alert and creative.



Arie



Arie and his family were forced out of their shanty.



The new ‘land owner’ bulldozed the area.



Arie
struggles to get to Sekolah Bisa because he has to go on a public bus
first in order to reach the pick-up point for the Sekolah Bisa funded
bus. 



He is ‘a delightfully good humoured child who has missed almost no school at all since starting in May 2011.’



Siska



Siska loves Maths and problem solving



Lina



Lina wants to become a dentist.

 

Maman
 
There is very high death rate among children in some of the Jakarta slums.
 
Children die regularly from typhoid, typhus, tetanus, TB and a host of other ailments.
 
Medical care is not free and some of the doctors have only passed their exams through bribery.
 
A child can appear healthy on a Monday and be dead by Friday.

Maman, 13 years of age, died suddenly.
 
Maman’s father died some time ago and his mother is a maid.
 
Maman used to chew uncooked noodles.
 

SEKOLAH BISA!





These Bisa
students (above) were discovered on a garbage dump in Jakarta. They were
collecting waste materials and selling them. The Street Kids of Jakarta


Strangely, the Bisa school appears to have only two corporate sponsors:

The Body Shop Indonesia and

Giant Hypermarket Jakarta.







One would
hope that BP, Jardine Matheson, Unilever, Shell, Standard Chartered
Bank, HSBC, Rio Tinto, Premier Oil, BAT, Prudential, Shell, Rolls Royce,
GlaxoSmithKline and a number of others will lend their support in
future.

 

Lessons given to children in a slum area of Jakarta1.5 million children live in the slums of Jakarta.


Most of the slum dwellers try to make ends meet by working as ‘rag pickers’.The children often have to start helping their families earn money early on.Nearly half the population lives on under $2 a day.

 

Education is not free in Indonesia.Various projects are “helping the children climb out of poverty through education.”

For example, the British International School in Jakarta has set up its little school for slum children.

 

And Josef
Fuchs, an Austrian businessman, has set up a foundation to make it
possible for 2,500 children to attend school in 29 slums in Jakarta,
Surabaya and Medan.

Education gives hope to Indonesian slum kids 

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