Child Aid Papua Education Centre: Library Project #6

The Child Aid Papua Education Center is officially open!

In 2017 the students of Wingham High, along with their Indonesian Language teacher, made books and raised money for the students in West Papua. We used that money to purchase books to start a library collection for the new Child Aid Papua Education Centre.  It has been a great pleasure to witness the build of the new education centre and see how excited the children (and future students of the centre) have been to watch it unfold.  It was particularly exciting for us to see the books we bought for the centre on shelves in the new library – what a beautiful library it is.

Wingham High, you are absolute legends.  Thank you so much for your support.  Your donation will make a great difference to the children of Raja Ampat.

xxx

Ocean Warriors in the Wild || Child Aid Papua

Seeing our book in the wild never gets old!  Thank you for helping us get it out there.

Wingham High X Child Aid Papua

Well, We have been shopping again!!

You might recall last year we gave some beautiful hand made books, written - in Bahasa Indonesia AND English - and illustrated by the students of Wongham High, to the kids at Kukusan School, one of our Komodo/Flores projects.  At the time they sent us those books they also made a cash donation and I have been waiting for the perfect project to spend their hard raised funds.

I have recently been put in touch with Jonas, the founder of Child Aid Papua Foundation, who has a fabulous education program working with the kids of Raja Ampat.  At his grass roots education centre he offers classes in school subjects such as English, Mathematics and Geography, and also teaches marine Education, hosts beach cleans and builds awareness around threats to our oceans.  Jonas volunteers his time to work with these kids and does so with very limited resources.When I approached him to see whether the 100BOOKSproject could be of benefit to him he was pretty stoked.

I’m so pleased to be able to facilitate the beginning of a resource library for Jonas to be able to share with the students in his classes.  Without the dedication of people like Jonas on the ground, and the support of all of you behind him, the children in these isolated areas of the Indonesian Archipelago have very little access to education.  A million thank you for helping me to bridge the gap.

Win ham High, your donation will provide over 200 Library books, activity books and notebooks to these kids.  You are awesome.