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Arisca was born in Klungkung and raised in Gianyar. She is the first child of three siblings. Her father works as the freelance driver and makes around 2 million in a month. Her mother used to work, but since Arisca was in High School, her mother had the heart disease and could no longer work. She is now staying at home and has to get the monthly treatment from the doctor. Her parents planned to sell their current home in Gianyar and get back to Karangasem as they need more money to fulfill their family expenses. After graduating from high school, Arisca kept her dream to continue her study higher as she understood her family condition. She looked for some jobs to help her parents, but it is hard for her by only using the high school certificate. Then she heard about Bali WISE program from one of the Bali WISE alumnae, she is really interested to join in it. She wants to grow her career in hospitality to get a better chance at work.

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Rusmini, the third of four children, was born and raised in Karangasem. Her father is a farmer, and her mother works in the fields. Between them, the monthly income for the household is only 700,000 (around US $50). A difficult situation became worse when their house collapsed due to landslide, and the family was homeless until an NGO (Carolia Charity) built a two room home for them.

Although Rusmini’s dream was to continue her education, the family cannot afford school fees. After she graduated from high school, she took an unskilled, low salary job to help support her family, once young women get off to a bad start like this, they get pregnant early and also it is very unlikely that they will ever get a skilled job and escape a future of poverty and limited possibilities.

And then Rusmini heard about the Bali WISE program. With the knowledge and experience she will gain in the six-month program, she will join the hundreds of other Bali WISE graduates working as hospitality professionals and get on the skills ladder. Maybe one day she will even realize her dream of working abroad.

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Elok was born and raised in Banyumas. She is the first child of three siblings. Her parents lived separately when she was baby. Her father did not take any responsibilities of her that her mother was the only one who made the living for the family. She lived with her grandparents while her mother worked. Her mother remarried but then divorced for the second time. They decided to live fully with her grandparents as her mother had no home. Her mother makes the living by opening the food stall and work from morning to night. She makes IDR 500 thousands in a month and uses them to fulfill the daily needs for six people including her grandparents. Since Elok graduated from high school a year ago, she has been doing some helps to her mother as she had no chance to continue to university. She also could not get any job easily with only her high school certificate. After knowing the information about Bali WISE program, she applied to it without second thoughts as she believes that she could get better access in education and be more skilled. Her goal is to finally get the decent paid job so she could help her family and provide the education to her little siblings.

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Desia lives most of her life with her grandmother in a small area of Indonesia, called Bangun. Her parents already separated since she was very young. Her mother died when she was still in her Junior High school. Despite being an orphaned and experienced living in inharmonious family, yet it didn’t stop her to give her best in her study and makes her remnant family members proud. Desia dreams on getting a good job to support her grandmother and younger brother.

After received Bali WISE information from her neighbor, she decided to apply this program without any second thought. She knows Bali WISE program won’t just be able to help her in improve her knowledge and skills for having a good job in the future, but also help her to achieve her dream to open her own salon in the future which can be useful to support her family and open more employment in society.

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Mona was born and raised in Subagan, Karangasem. She is the second child of three siblings. Her father does not have the certain job. Her mother runs the small food stall and her father usually helps in it. She makes around 1.5 million in a month. Both her and her older sister could not continue their study to university as their parents could not provide it to her. After graduating from high school, Mona tried to apply to university using the scholarship but she did not make it. She decided to help her mother in the stall. She still keeps her dream to keep studying as she wants to get better chance at work and her career. One day, one of her friend came to her food stall and she told her struggle about getting into university. Her friend told about Bali WISE program and she was excited about the opportunity. She wants to grow her career in the hospitality field and get the stable job to help her family condition. Furthermore, she could get what

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