KDM & Happy Angels 2nd Joint Education Project - Nov 2006

After the success of the first KDM & Happy Angels joint Education project in April, Happy Angels re-visited KDM again on 24 – 28 November 2006. A total of 13 volunteers from Happy Angels went on this 5 days adventurous trip to KDM Cileungsi, Jakarta. We were delighted to have local volunteers from SIA Jakarta office joining us.

On this project, Happy Angels hopes to sustain our objectives from the April 2006 visit and has included new objects for this project:

* To reward self-deserving kids who has been sustaining their positive spirit of learning. * To reinforce and rekindle the learning spirit in the kids. * To foster esprit de corps through various outdoor activities.

We hope to achieve the objectives through:

1. English Proficiency Level Identify their English proficiency through English Tests for different literacy levels. English test was conducted to identify the top learners in English and it also serves as a benchmark for us to identify which level they are at in order for us to help them to learn English at a comfortable pace.

2. Future Leaders To encourage children to be leaders. Some of the children were identified to plan and organize activities for the volunteers during our visit. Each child was given roles and duties to perform.

3. Team Building Children were separated into different teams with a team leader amongst them. Games and activities were planned to encourage communication and decision-making within the team.

4. Caring and Sharing We went for a trekking trip to the waterfalls. Children have to take care of the volunteers and their friends throughout the trip. They need to ensure that everyone has enough food to eat and everything is taken care of.

On this project, children were given opportunities to prepare the programs and take care of the necessary needs for the Camping trip to the waterfall. It was a 2 days trekking to the mountains. They planned games, camping equipments, transport arrangements etc.

During our 5 days visit, English test, activities and talent time were planned for the children. An appraisal system was also designed to grade the children’s behavior during the entire trip. We will identify the top 10 winners from the compilation of scores from the English Test, Talent Time and Appraisal.

The prize for the top 3 winners is an educational visit to Singapore and the next 7 winners will get to visit to Bali, Indonesia.

To SIA Jakarta Ground Staff,

Thank you very much for the wonderful time. Happy Angels is indeed very honour to work together with you. Hope to work with you guys again in near future.