Cahaya Masa Depan could be translated as “Light of Future”. The

charity has two main missions.

The first is to support deserving and disadvantaged Indonesian

students by financing their access to high school or university. The

charity’s support would be tailored to each student’s needs whether

it is housing, school fees, and whether or not they are able to get

help from their families. The charity guarantees a personalized

follow-up for each student during their education (help in defining

objectives, follow-up of school reports, meetings with teachers,

moral support, etc.).

The second, which stems directly from the covid-19 crisis, is to

provide health assistance to those in need. This could take the form

of, for example, setting up medical visits in a village, or

distributing food and hygiene products to underprivileged

families.

For Riau Island, whose economy depended greatly on tourism, the impact of Covid-19 has been huge. Even before the pandemic began, there were already many families that were struggling to feed their young children and send them to school. These families survive mainly on a “daily salary” that would be used to purchase food and basic amenities.

Our current focal location is in Riau archipelago, under Pangkal Pinang Diocese with 15 parish church in Bangka Belitung and Riau province, with a total area of 30,442 km.
Riau is made up of around 3200 islands, with a vast coverage and a higher water to land ratio. Thus infrastructure and transportation is a challenge.

Therefore children to get better education need to stay in the main city, such as Batam, Tanjung Pinang and Karimun and stay in boarding school managed by Congregation Sisters.
They have limited support systems, and we want to provide regular health check by local doctors and improve food nutrition intake.

Purchase medicines and vitamin for regular children health check in Batam and Bintan, also adding food nutrition for consumption by the children in boarding school

The funding requirement used for:

1) Purchase medicines, vitamin

2) Special need for children eye glasses

3) Adding food nutrition products to consume by the children

4) Replenishment of basic medicines stock in boarding school

5) Buy hygiene product for children, such as toothpaste, tooth brush, shampoo, soap, sanitary pads, etc

6) Other ad hoc requirement such as dental and hospital costs for the children, when necessary