ISASCI Indonesia Foundation: November 2004

Friends of ISASCI Indonesia

Dear friend,
I realize everyone gets a lot of junk mail these days, so I thank you in advance for your time and consideration. ISASCI Indonesia Foundation or (Intelligent Study or Art and Science in Indonesia Foundation) works with children and teenagers in East Java, in the Indonesian archipelago. Their mission is to give young people a better start in life by teaching them art, philosophy, science, and eco-conservation. By teaching the children about these subjects, and how to live with the land, they hope to stop children from being recruited by terrorist groups in their part of the world that would use them as suicide bombers. By cultivating open minds and open hearts in each child in Indonesia, we can give these children brighter futures.
HISTORY
ISASCI started with a group of 12 Indonesian high school students. They started the group as a club, and wanted to continue their work after graduation. They since have gotten license to teach to hundreds of children during the week and on Saturdays. They hold workshops on leadership, jungle survival, philosophy and many other subjects.
I have worked very hard helping them spread their message. ISASCI made me their media consultant, and since then we have a website, a database of Internet research resources, and a partnership with at least one teen forum on the web.
GOALS
ISASCI hopes to expand their teaching. We hope to gain more volunteers within the local community and build relationships with friends all over the world.
In order to reach these goals, ISASCI needs the help of many generous people. Our funds are almost non-existent. Our equipment is badly out of date and in need of repair. We have limited access to books of any kind. They are either very expensive, or simply not there. Most of the members do not speak English, and those that do cannot speak it very well. I think visual media is the best way to communicate between cultures and that is where you come in.
WAYS YOU CAN HELP
I am currently looking for groups to build partnerships with ISASCI. We would like the children to be able to learn from people in other parts of the world. To see what life is like in other countries. We also need books and magazines-- reliable resources for information when we do our research. We simply can’t afford textbooks. We need projection equipment, cameras—anything that can be used as a teaching tool.
A NOTE FROM TEAM ISASCI
“Because Village around our city, their education is very under develop. Most of them are good children but their parents’ economic status is under poverty lines. If the potential children are found by narrow-minded political groups and terrorist organizations, they’ll be persuaded to join in by using give all family to entice. But we (ISASCI Indonesia) for recent doesn’t have enough fund to help their economic, but we just can help them in education in order to they’d have open mind pattern and open heart pattern.
We also need Science books (National geography, Discovery channel, American Scientific, Encyclopedia, etc). We would like to build a digital library, so if the students needed some information about the contents of the books for their homework, we can help them. The science books what we means is like Discovery Channel, National Geography, American scientific, Encyclopedia science (Biology, Math, Physics, Chemistry, History, Geography, etc.). Maybe you have some book and magazine, which you don’t need anymore? Because in here the prize of the magazines and the books about science is very expensive and we just have limit in Encyclopedia books and magazines science.
Today we have get license to teach in SMUN 1 Surabaya (1 Senior high school) with total 240 student, once a week in Saturday to give philosophy review of all subject matter. Now, we have planning to build digital library for students, But the problem is our science books very limited, it might you can help us if you have books?
We need your help. Bless you and thank you."

If you are interested in helping ISASCI, just write to our email address. Thank you for your help. We look forward to hearing from you.

Ambrosia
Media Consultant
ISASCI Indonesia Foundation

More Information
Contact ISASCI Indonesia today to find out how you can help!
Email: isasciindonesia_donation@dellmail.com