Call for Donation: second hand bazaar

For celebrating KAIL's 12th birthday, KAIL will organized a bazaar on 6th July 2014.

We accept donation of used clothes, books, toys, house equipment to be sold in that bazaar.

The money collected from this event will be used for finance community activities around Kail House.

For more information, please contact:
Melly: 082127253087 / 085794904686
Selly: 082118632353
Titin: 081321137231

Collection point:
Rumah KAIL
Kp. Cigarugak, Kelurahan Giri Mekar, Kec. Cilengkrang, Kab. Bandung
Entry from: Jln. Cijambe, Ujung Berung

Deadline for collection: 3rd July 2014

Celebration of Saung Bandasari

Today, 10th June 2014, KAIL and YPBB staffs visited Bandasari for celebrating the completeness of Saung Bandasari construction. Saung Bandasari is located at Desa Bandasari, where YPBB and KAIL jointly have a piece of land, which is projected to be their ecovillage site in the future. This "saung" is one of many buildings that will be constructed in that site. The building is made from bamboo and consist of an open wide space, a smaller open space and two bed rooms. Beside the saung, two bath rooms were also constructed, a long with biodigester as its septic tank and waste water ponds which will be used as grey water treatment.

The area of Bandasari is around 2.5 hectares, which consist of hill, valley, and rice field. Part of the rice field will be functioning as fish pond. In the long run, the area will be developed using the principle of permaculture.Following that principle, the sites will be divided into several zones, from zone 0 for most actively used area, such as housing, kitchen etc. to zone 5, where local woods from West Java will be planted as part of reforestation efforts of that area.

Beside YPBB and KAIL staffs, head of local community, construction workers and families of Gungun Gunawan, the coordinator of this ecovillage were also joined this celebration.

Celebration will not be perfect without food. In this event, tumpeng nasi kuning plus lauk pauk cooked by Gungun's mother was the main course. The symbol of the opening of the saung was done by David Sutasurya (YPBB) giving a plate of nasi kuning to Thomas (the youngest people from KAIL) and to the head of Bandasari community.

Many children attended this event. They played together all the time. They walked, run up down the hill around the location. Some children did this many times. It seems like they do not tired at all.

The event was closed with group picture.

Hope that what has been done with good intention can give benefit to the nature and many people.

Workshop for Systems Thinking Mentors

In June 8^th 2014, KAIL organized training for mentor on System Thinking. This training is for developing new generation of mentors for Systems Thinking workshops which is done regularly at KAIL House. Ten participants joined this training. They are alumni of KAIL Systems Thinking Workshop, especially from 2011-2014 batches.

During this training, participants reviewed their basic System Thinking skills, such as formulating indicator, drawing Behavior Over Time Diagram (BOT) and Causal Loop Diagram (CLD). The participants also learned about how to become Systems Thinking mentor and facilitator. They learned about facilitation techniques as well as to understand different characters of participants. They had opportunities to work individually as well as in pairs and in plenary. Through the process, they could learn from one another and it helped them understand the content better.

Besides strengthening participants’ technical skills, the participants also learned about psychological aspects in mentoring process. They learned from various stories given by former mentors. From that process, the participants got knowledge and confident that they could be a good mentor. If there is effort, there will be way out.

Any Sulistyowati (Any) and Melly Amalia (Melly) from KAIL facilitated the process. As a follow up from this training are the following. Firstly, they agreed to support each other in using Systems Thinking in their organizational development. Two organizations proposed their organizations as cases. The first one is GSSI which will be organized by Ibu Tini. The second one is KSK which will be organized by Teteh Novi. The rest of participants will join as volunteer facilitator in that process. The second follow up is the formation of a group which interested in developing Systems Thinking Teaching for Children. They think that it will be good if people can know Systems Thinking as early as possible. From the process, it is hoped that they can support children to think holistically and systematically.

[Event Announcement] Systems Thinking Mentoring Workshop

@ KAIL House
Kampung Cigarugak, Desa Giri Mekar, Kecamatan Cilengkrang, Kab. Bandung
8 June 2014, 09.00-17.00 WIB
Open for Systems Thinking Workshop Alumni from batch 1-20.
For more information and registration, please contact:
Melly Amalia (Melly)
kail.melly@gmail.com
0821-2725-3087
0857-9490-4686
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"TEMANI AKU BUNDA" - with Irma Winda Lubis

Movie discussion @ Rumah KAIL



"My friends were angry with me. They said that because of me, the teachers get problems. I just tried to be honest. My parents teach me to always be honest." (Abrar)

This documentary is about the journey of a child in the face of national examinations (UN) in the month of May 2011. Two days before the UN, Abrar and his friends were asked by her teacher to participate in a collective agreement in their class, that they may co-operation and exchange exam answers without telling anyone, including their parents. This meant Abrar and his friends were told to cheat. How was Abrar reaction to this? What did their parents do when they knew this? What was the action of Irma Winda Lubis (Winda /Abrar's mother) facing this issue?

Kail organized this event at the end of series of National Examination 2014 for elementary school students to high school to remind that in these days and ages, noble values​​, such as honesty is very expensive. As parents, we can take an important role to help our children, the future generation, to implement these values​​. The process was not simply just by saying, but more importantly through our actions. More effective lessons of value application can be shown by our behavior. It will be meaningless for the children, if we only tell them in word, but in practice we do the opposite. When this happens children will face a dilemma (and even up to the stress and trauma), which could influence the life in the future.

We live in a system that is not ideal. A lot of problems we face in this current system. So much homework to be done for creating better living for all, including in education sector. We need to work together to create a conducive environment so that our children can grow at their best potential. One of the enabling environment is providing space for children to express themselves honestly and simply so they can be in their true selves. As adults, we are responsible for ensuring the availability of these spaces.

That is the subject of discussion after watching the movie together at KAIL House last Sunday, June 1st 2014. This event was hosted by Dhitta Puti Sarasvati, KAIL volunteer from Jakarta and assisted by Deta, KAIL volunteer from Bandung. About 25 people from various communities, partners and individuals attended the event. They were excited to watch the movie together and discussed the content afterward. This activity was originally scheduled to end at noon. However, the discussion has been continued until over lunch time. Therefore the formal discussion had to be stopped first and then be followed by an informal discussion over lunch and finish up at 3:30 pm.

Many lessons can be derived by participants from this process. Hope that this initiative can be useful for the people who need this.
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