Locations » Indonesia » Medan
All TEP Children have been sponsored!
Contact Information
Jalan Tempuling 128 A
Medan 20222
Sumatra - Indonesia
Tel: +62-61-6626469
medan@ihfonline.org
Medan
We are determined to help these poor children to be the next great leaders, by empowering them and teaching them to PASS IT ON
IHF Medan specializes in helping the poorest of the poor that come from many tribes, which are now living in inner city poverty. Some of the people we help are often single mothers (father deceased) who work as house maids, pedi-cab-man ( who earn money by driving passengers in their tricycle) and other laborers who make below living wages. They only make their little amount of money on days that they can find customers.
Medan does not have an Orphanage because Medan is the central office for all of Indonesia IHF Centers and is also very full with 500 wonderful students that we love and teach English, Math and computer.
These children and all of our IHF Medan Team are striving to improve our English so we can communicate with you and the world. Our 500 students come from the poorest of the poor that need certificate (degree) to support in helping them to compete for jobs.
There are many tribes in Medan City such as: Bataknese, Javanese, Melayunese, Acehnese and Padang. The tribes that we have mentioned are majority in Medan, but there are tens of other tribes. My wife is Acehnese, which is also why we are so involved in helping victims from the Tsunami.
All you women out there will love Padang because it is Matriarchal, meaning that women rule (only Women can inherit, own land, keep all in divorce)!!!
In Medan, our Goal is to train teachers in motivating our shy students to NOT be afraid to ask questions, speak publicly, to think creatively, and reach for new heights.
Center Reports
Monday 11th, August 2008
(1) On August 12 we had a birthday party for TEP Arliya Lubis in the centre. Photos have been sent to her sponsor! (2) On August 18 (public holiday) about 70 students came to the centre to celebrate the National Day, with games and snacks. (3) English teacher Ira will take care of all English classes in the next two weeks as there will be no volunteer in the Medan centre.
Sunday 10th, August 2008
(1) A number of new students came to register for our classes over the past few weeks. The team is processing these applications and updating the class files. (2) We are organising a birthday party for TEP Arliya Lubis in the centre on August 12!
Sunday 3rd, August 2008
(1) Carol visited the Medan centre on August 3 and had a meeting with the team. (2) Volunteer Penthai finished his volunteering on August 2. Now the centre has one volunteer - Ken! (3) We will plan for extra classes in the weekends. (4) We will organize a birthday party for our TEP child Arliya Lubis.
Sunday 20th, July 2008
1) A new volunteer, Penthai Thewin, arrived on July 19 and we are looking forward to having the help. 2) We organized a gathering for Dehlia with her sponsor children on July 19. It went so well! 3) We have further revised the Medan manual and sent to Amir for uploading.
Saturday 31st, May 2008
As usual in the morning Sarah checked the emails and international tasks and in the evening checked the class learning the computer. At night time there was no school activity. Computer lesson: Today we started with Ms.Word. they studied about making drop caps, column, insert clip art, and page border. At the second lesson they studied Excel about DATE,TEXT,SUM,AVERAGE, If high rise formulas. At Ms. P.Point they studied about to move slide design, slide layout and custom animation. At Ms. Access they studied how to make tables, query and forms. Today they are very diligent coming to IHF.
Friday 30th, May 2008
Today I wrote an email to one of our children's new sponsors and explored how to upload videos to the website. But the power cut (a long one today) stopped me in my tracks. In the evening the class learning computer came on schedule. Computer lesson: Today during the first and second lessons the power is off so the children can't use the computers. But they studied theory. At 16.15 the power came on, enabling the third class to use the computers. During this lesson they studied Ms. Word. P.Point and Access. At this time the sky was very dark and rainy. But the children came to IHF to study computer. I am very happy with them because they are very enthusiastic and very diligent.
Thursday 29th, May 2008
I began to plan my last two English lessons next week. Ira, our local volunteer, was in charge of tonight's classes. This afternoon two children came to the centre for computer registration. Today the class really enjoyed their studies and the children were very diligent studying at IHF. Computer lesson: Today at the first lesson they studied autoshape, word art, table, symbol etc. at Ms. Excel they studied about insert, delete, rename a sheet, copy sheet etc. at Ms. Access they make a table, query, form etc. They are very diligent coming to IHF. I am very happy to teach them. Tonight, we really enjoyed, because they understood well. In the first lesson, they studied Ms.Word and Ms. Excel. They studied command button, and toolbar. At the second lesson, they studied Ms.Excel looking for 'present, sum and average'. They were creative tonight. Mathematic lesson: I gave a lesson about"equivalent of straight line". Its formula was Y = ax + b, where a and b were constants.The second group, I continued about assembly topic, with the students very enthusiastic to study maths. English lesson: Tonight we reviewed negative statements in past tense. They made one example of it. Most of them could do it well but some still can't. In another class we studied shapes and we wrote ten shapes and gave them English names.
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