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January’s beach cleanup and crowdfunding for new minibus

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The Bali WISE students ended January doing a beach cleanup organized by R.O.L.E. Foundation. R.O.L.E. Foundation is currently raising funds to replace the old minibus that was being used for this occasion, and is being used daily to transport the Bali WISE students.

Beach Cleanup

One of the projects of R.O.L.E. Foundation is conducting recurring beach cleanups, every month in a different location. January’s beach cleanup took place at Kedonganan Beach on Friday, January 26. The participants were Bali WISE students and R.O.L.E. Foundation’s team. The beach cleanup began at 7AM and lasted for 1.5 hours.

During the beach cleanup, the government health protocol was implemented by wearing masks and limiting the number of participants. There was a close collaboration with the local authority to ensure that everyone followed the protocol. At 9AM, the Bali WISE students left the beach to go to the ZeroWaste Center to get practical education about how to separate the waste prior to recycling.

Give hope to the next generation of Bali!

R.O.L.E. Foundation is currently raising funds to replace the current old minibus that has been used extensively for the last 10 years. The minibus is needed to transport 15-20 Bali WISE students to off-site learning locations.

Send your support and donate! (https://donorbox.org/new-minibus)

New Year, new beginning in Bali WISE

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Happy New Year to you! A clean slate for Bali WISE to enter 2021. Last year was rock bottom for most of us, but we are excited to move on from 2020. Here are some exciting highlights of what is going on at the beginning of this year.

Bali WISE x The Apurva Kempinski Bali

We are delighted to announce that The Apurva Kempinski Bali has signed an MoU with Bali WISE for an educational partnership. The Apurva Kempinski is a 5-star luxury hotel in Bali with a spectacular architectural experience with a special culinary journey, indigenous spa treatments, and a top 5-star service. Our students will have an intense 6-month training program in some departments such as Spa, Housekeeping, FB Service and FB Product. Kempinski Bali will be a great opportunity for Bali WISE students to learn from the best to gain their experience and support their careers in the future.

Training Program for Intake 44

Bali WISE intake 44 students are entering their training program starting on 11 and 13 January 2021. Out of a total of 13 students, 7 of them attend their program in The Apurva Kempinski Bali in 3 separate departments, 3 in the FB Operation, 2 in the Spa, and 2 in the Housekeeping. We also have 1 of our students in the Alila Villas Uluwatu kitchen and 2 students are in F&B service department at the Cuca Restaurant. As a result of the pandemic, training places are adopting the government’s health protocol. A swab examination was also carried out for all applicants before joining their program.

A New Intake 45

Bali WISE welcomed 13 new students to start their journey to our campus. Starting this January, students will take part in 3 months of basic theoretical learning, followed by 3 months of training. Intake 45 has 11 students coming from across Bali, 2 from Java and Sumba. Before entering the campus area, all students were tested to ensure everyone’s safety. Masks are also necessary to be wearing on all occasions, social distances of 1 meter between classroom desks and hand washing are necessary for everyone before entering the campus area.

Your support is needed!

Donating is a way of reaching out a helping hand. By making even a small donation, you can be part of an effort to support us educate the unskilled women to break the cycle of poverty. Make a donation. (https://baliwise.org/donate/)

Bali WISE starting again with 13 students

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Bali WISE is very pleased to announce the start of intake 44. After having been closed for 8 months since March 2020, the Bali WISE program has welcomed 13 students from Bali. Starting this month November, the students will follow the educational training program. As all students are Balinese, they will stay at the campus during the week and are allowed to return to their families on the weekends.

New normal protocol
All students were tested before they came to the campus. To create a safe place for both students and teachers, Bali Wise is following the health protocol that is issued by the Indonesian government. Mask requirements for teachers and students, regular airing of classrooms, are all measurements taken to ensure the students, teachers and staff’s safety. In order to meet the social distancing requirements, the class sizes have been reduced and there’s a minimum distance of 1 meter between the desk in the classroom. And all teachers, students and staff need to wash their hands before entering the campus.

Temporary limitations to the program
The 13 students have started the educational part of the Bali WISE program, which exist of 3 months of educational training -in English, hospitality training, environmental training, safety including Covid-19 measures, sexual education- and 3 months of internship at one of the upmarket resorts in Nusa Dua. As soon as tourism in Bali is opening up, the educational training will be followed up with the 3-month internship.

You can make a difference!
Bali WISE provides the 13 young women not only education, but also food and accommodation, uniforms, educational books, and a monthly allowance. And there is an additional cost, like the maintenance of the building, electricity cost, teachers and staff salary.

You can make a difference, support Bali WISE in empowering marginalized women through skills education, as a means to develop sustainable communities in Indonesia.
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Reproductive Health and Early Pregnancy Training

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Sexual health education for the young

Sexual health education is necessary. In Indonesia, knowledge about preventing sexual reproduction and diseases is considerably low. Bali Wise is spreading this knowledge by training the Bali Wise students to become sexual health education trainers in junior high schools in Bali.

Why is this important, especially for girls?

When girls and women have access to reproductive health services, contraception, and education, and are free from violence, they are more likely to stay at school and they will choose to have fewer children later in life. Also, they are less likely to contract an STI or have poor health, and more likely to be employed and to participate in society.

Anticipation to the pandemic

The Bali WISE girls are educated by Miss Opy, who taught them to speak in public and acquire the proper knowledge. In normal times, the educators would have gone to the schools themselves to educate the children. As this is impossible during the pandemic, now the school teachers will spread the knowledge to the school children.

To make this possible, Bali Wise is giving away books, PDF’s, and video’s about safe sex, reproductive health and early pregnancy education.

Brainstorm with Alumni in Java

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Bali WISE had a virtual meeting with 6 Alumni who are living in Java. Three of them have a job and another three are still struggling to look for it.

Here is what Bali WISE gets from the discussion.

What have you done so far to get a job?

The alumni have applied to many companies and revised their curriculum vitae. Three of them, Rosita, Felia, and Maria, have a job as digital marketing in a property company, household assistants, and freelance writer. They do every job to earn money and improve their skill. The problem that the alumni encounter often is about the location. Even Though the interview went well and they got the job, they are not allowed to travel due to many reasons.

Another three, Devi, Widiawati, and Tika, weren’t lucky enough to have a chance of earning money. They have been riding around the town to get a job. Some of them have no phone or laptop that makes it harder to find a job.

Do you ever think of the idea to be an entrepreneur or freelancer? Maybe teaching, or selling secondhand clothes online, or writing the article and selling it online?

Yes, they write an article, collect clothes from their friends and sell it online, and an English honorary teacher in a primarily high school near their house. One of them even published the short story of the anthology book with her pen friend.

Do you encounter any specific problems in finding a job because you are a woman? (Especially in Java Region, what’s make it different)

Some jobs require men. The company said that it needs man strength and intuition.

In the difficulties, they keep trying to look for a job and earn money. Even without a phone or laptop, it’s not stopping them. Sometimes they have to borrow their friend’s phone or laptop for the interview. The internet connection is also a problem. When BaliWISE was having virtual with the alumni, they had to walk to a place that has a good internet connection

You can help them by sharing this information

Bali WISE is looking for companies in Java that are currently looking for staff. If you own or know someone who is looking for staff please informed us by email hr@baliwise.org. We can guarantee that our student is a hard worker and will adapt to their workplace in no time.

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