First KAIL Support Group formed in Bandung

The first KAIL Support Group was formed on Saturday, 24th September 2011 in Bandung. The goal of KAIL support group is to create conducive environment for change agents to discussed their problems, feelings, passion, awareness, and strategies to created necessary change required for their vision.

Each group consisted of 4-6 members, facilitated by one KAIL volunteer mentors. The members committed to meet together every 3 months for the next 12 months. Each group will take turn to organize the following meetings.

During this first meeting, 12 members committed to join KAIL support groups, facilitated by KAIL volunteer mentors: David Ardes Setiadhi, Dhitta Puti Sarasvati and Lili Herawati. The meeting was from 9.30 WIB to 18.30 WIB and consist of Listening Skills in the morning and support group discussion during the afternoon. In late afternoon, they also learned about Emotion Freedom Technique (EFT) facilitated by David Ardes Setiadhi.

The next meeting of this group will be on December 11th 2011. The meeting will be organized by one KAIL support group.

To get more information about this event or to join KAIL support group, please contact: Melly Amalia (kail.melly@gmail.com).

KAIL Staff adviced Ashoka Youth Social Entrepreneur Program

In August 2005, Any Sulistyowati, KAIL staff, was selected by Ashoka Indonesia to set up Youth Social Enterpreneur Program (YSE). YSE is a series of capacity building for youth social entrepreneur in Indonesia. Any will work intensively from August 2005 – August 2006, and extensively from September 2006-2007.

In this work, Any was responsible to designed the training and mentoring program, set up Ashoka In this work, Any was responsible to designed the training and mentoring program, set up Ashoka team consist of mainly YSE alumni and Ashoka Fellows to run YSE in the future. In the future YSE is hoped to be managed fully by YSE alumni. The training were consist of several modules: Social Enterpreneurship, Problem Analysis and Activity Planning, and Public Communication. The overall programs took about one year to complete. Each participants will get an Ashoka Fellow as their mentor.