CWS News

Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood. This transition involves biological, social, and psychological changes. During this period, normally within the age range of 13 - 19, curiosity is high which sometimes leads adolescents to reproductive health and drug abuse concerns.

One of the constraints to develop a cooperative faced by the savings and credit groups (KSP) that Church World Service assists in Poso District is the absence of networking with other institutions.  In addition, these groups have no registered status. There is a lack of awareness among the groups on the importance of building networking and establishing registered entity.

By Ismira Lutfia.

Refugees of all ages and many nationalities seemed to be enjoying themselves at the Bogor Botanical Garden on Tuesday to celebrate World Refugee Day.

Some faces looked familiar from a year ago, as they have been waiting in Jakarta and Bogor for years for resettlement to a third country.

CWS Indonesia participated in the Permaculture and Sustainable Agriculture training in Bali, June 7 - 12, 2010, facilitated by IDEP foundation, a national NGO addressing the urgent needs for sustainable food production and resource management as well as promoting environmental education for sustainable living.

Gender Mainstreaming Program of the Women Empowerment and Family Planning Board (Badan Pemberdayan Perempuan dan Keluarga Berencana/ BPP and KB) in Poso District - has held "Children of Peace Communicators Facilitators Training." The training aimed to increase the role of students and children to be peace agents in the family, school and community in Poso District.

Washington D.C. – Church World Service Indonesia took part in global conference on women’s health, the Women Deliver in Washington D.C., The United State of America on June 7 – 9, 2010. The theme of this conference was Delivering Solution for Girls and Women.

JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 5 (UNHCR) – Eternally smiling, 16-year-old Ghulam Reza* exudes confidence as he dashes from his early-morning job at a bakery to deliver the fresh bread and then pay a friendly call on an elderly man he's adopted as his surrogate grandfather.

Jakarta – Church World Service held a training and workshop on health and nutrition on 3 – 7 May 2010. Fourteen staff attended this event to improve their knowledge and skill on health and nutrition related issues.

Badwi M. Amin, CWS Senior Program Officer for Health and Nutrition who also served as facilitator, pointed out, “the goal of this training and workshop is to strengthen health and nutrition program of CWS Indonesia by improving the capacity of its staff on accessing and addressing health and nutrition related problems in their areas of intervention.”

A 7.2 Richter Scale (RS) earthquake hit Aceh Province on May 9, 2010 at 12.59 PM. The epicentrum was located 66 KM Southwest of Meulaboh at a depth of 30 KM. The earthquake was also felt in Meulaboh, Nias, and Medan, and some other area in Sumatra. A tsunami warning that was issued has been lifted.