Education Support

In just one year since Chance International was established, our achievements include:

• completed Phase I of our Educational Program, teaching 62 children between the ages of 6-12 for 9 hours a week in a room of 7 x 4 meters with no furniture
• Lam Asan has offered the use of a larger community building rent free (but also electricity free) to run a kindergarten, playgroup and the educational support program
• integrated the neighbouring villages of Lampineung, Lam Gapang, Lamboui and Kling to our Programs at their request
• funding has been successfully raised to set up the expanded program to teach up to 200 children for 42 hours a week
• founded a library to which the villagers have access
• set up our Computer Training Program for children
• evening computer training for youth and adults
• set up touch typing classes
• expanded our Educational Support Program now teaches History, Biology, Geography, Social Science, Indonesian, Maths, Arabic, English, Environmental Studies and Health Education.

• despite the extreme hardship of their living conditions, the fact that their parents are for the most part illiterate and cannot help them with their learning, and many as young as six are given their baby brothers and sisters to look after while at our Program, the children of the villages have shown incredible enthusiasm to learn and will go to great lengths to attend classes
• learning abilities are developing rapidly among the children and their parents witnessing their enthusiasm for attending the classes
• locals are supporting the educational program in any way they can, working for free, and donating whatever they can, as a result of the extraordinary community spirit which they witness in the children
• local government educational services have become interested in our Programs and has lent their support
• children from villages we do not know travel to our school to attend classes
• children are queuing in front of the library every afternoon to read
• parents have witnessed the incredible effect of education on their children and those who can read are borrowing their children's books and reading in groups in the evenings
• some parents are sitting in on classes as well
• As part of our Disaster Reduction Program we also teach swimming classes for mothers and babies, infants, children, youth and adults and are running life saving classes. This is invaluable in rebuilding confidence with water after the trauma of the tsunami - many children are still terrified when it rains.