REPORT OF OUR IIWC ACTIVITY IN BLORA

A. A  BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT  IIWC

IIWC is acronym of Indonesia International Work Camp. Informally, IIWC was formed in September 1999 by IPPA Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association, when IPPA held the first work camp in Mijen, Semarang Residence incorporate with NICE, a work camp organization from Japan.

Seeing the success and positive result of the first work camp, NICE suggested IPPA to form a work camp organization. The suggestion was followed by an invitation for NVDA (Network for Voluntary Development in Asia) meeting in Hanoi Vietnam at 9 – 22 January 2000. In this meeting, we discussed how to run a work camp and everything about it. Since then, IIWC was born and has been organizing more than 100 international workcamps in Indonesia and many other international voluntary services with hundreds of either local or international volunteers involved.

B. ALL ABOUT BLORA CAMP

There will be at least 2 kind of works that will be done during the project: education and festival of Indonesian’s Independent day. First, Education. We will be helping the local library and local government in promoting the reading habit, the learning habit, and the importance of education for everybody (in the forms of some rural school visits, library visit, discussions, watching movie together, and the involvement the volunteers in the local Jamboree Scout). Second, Festival of Indonesian’s Independence day. We will do it with the local neighborhood in the campsite. The activities will be mother session (gym with local mom); children session (participant the special Independence Day games competition with the local children); Independence Day eve (perform something in the stage).

Safari Education at Desa Purwosari, Blora

Camp Leader of Blora Camp is Erlyn Nur Marfuah (Political student in FISIP UNDIP) and Co Leader Vicka Tamaya (UNDIP) . Its the name of my participant:

no	Nama	Jabatan	Asal
1	Julie Pasquet	Partisipan	Perancis
2	Slyvie Missiler	Partisipan	Perancis
3	Nagaoka Iori	Partisipan	Jepang
4	Tanaka Misa	Partisipan	Jepang
5	Akie Hirao	Partisipan	Jepang
6	Ivanetic Maja	Partisipan	Slovenia
7	Saso Pantar	Partisipan	Slovenia
8	Novian Surya	Partisipan	Indonesia
9	Randi Siagaan	Partisipan	Indonesia
10	Warno	Partisipan	Indones

Safari  Education at Desa  Beji, Kunduran, Blora

C. ACTIVITY IN “CRC/PSBG DWARAWATI “BLORA

In Saturday morning (8 August 2009), We had special visit to one group of primary school teachers in Blora. The name group is PSBG. The aim of this work is especially to share my participant experience especially my international partisipant about the method of teaching learning activities especially in subject of special skill for children and about education system from each country . The volunteers are expected to share their skill in making some special handicraft to these teachers and then they will teach this skill to their students afterwards.

What we have done in there????

Handicraf session :

• From Japan participant (Akie,Io and Misa) taught the teacher how to make mouse from origami…..the Japanese name is Pakunco….Its simple origami. Beside that is how to make ball….Japanese name is Funtse…
• From France participant (Julie) taught the teacher how to make bracelet from wool thread
• From Slovenia participant (Maja) taught the teacher how to make tablecloth from paper….

Share about Education System from each country

JAPANESE EDUCATION SYSTEM

School system:

3-5 years old : kindergarten (not duty)

8-12 years old : elementary school (duty)

13-15 years old : secondary school (duty)

16-18 years old : high school (not duty)

19-22 years old :college (not duty)

Subject (lesson in Japan) :

Math,science,history,Japanese music,moral,art,living science (learn cooking,sewing). From next year, Japan government will induce English class because Japanese people are only good at grammar,not in speaking.

Event :

Drama,sport festival,singing festival….there are so many event iin Japan.The purpose of helding the event are to promote the motivation of corporation among students and make the school life exciting.

Outbound at Terawang Cave  Todanan , Blora.

Vacation (break) :

In Japan,there is no school in Saturday. Now,In japan is summer vacation. Its 1 month long.However,during the summer vacation,student have to go to the park every morning.Its good for their health.

Writing by : Erlyn and Vieka.  (IIWC)

Posted by   : Ninik (PSBG Dwarawati – Blora)