Spiritually Active - Ramadhan 1431 H

Ramadhan is here again. It's time for us to take an act of kindness. Our main theme of this Ramadhan is "SPIRITUALLY ACTIVE". By having such theme, we are hoping that we will be able to motivate the kids to be more active and to be more motivated to study for a brighter future. This Ramadhan, UF will launch the first free book for the kids. It's called "ACTIVE". There will be various kinds of topic on the book in which we're hoping to stimulate the kids' way of thinking and to opne their mind about the things happening in this world.

Sharing our happiness to the less fortunate is one of the things that we can do to fill the days of Ramadhan. This time, We will have 2 events that will be held on 21st and 28th August 2010. We hope that you can participate on the events. Here are the details of the events that will be held.

Green Getaway

Green Getaway was the theme of our last event. It was held on July 3rd 2010. Putri came up with the idea that it's time for us to go back into nature. We were all very excited about the idea. So there we were..at Gunung Bunder for a day. many of UF friends joined us, it was always feel good to be able to make new friends. We had 15 kids from one Yayasan at Cibubur. It was a really one fun day. Full of laughter and togetherness.

Radith's Birthday

It's another birthday celebration. This time, it's Radith's birthday celebration. Radith is only 1 year old and yet he has a big heart to celebrate his first birthday with the less fortunate kids. The event was taking place at Yayasan Baburidho, Cilincing. There were more or less 30 kids involved on this event. We were playing games but this time the games were more into educational games. Marlow was in charge of designing the game. We wanted the kids to be able to think creatively and also to stimulate their mind.

UF Clown Day

On January 31st, Universal Foundation held an event at Yayasan Seiya Sekata, Klender. The theme of the event was "Clown Day", in which we hope to bring the fun and cheerfulness among the kids. We invited Mr. Clown and SpongeBob Squarepants to host the event. On this day, we also celebrated one of UF's members, Mariani Putri.

Listy's Birthday

On December, one of UF friends as us to help her celebrating her birthday with some of the underserved kids. We chose Yayasan Nurani Insani at Petamburan, South Jakarta as the perfect place. Most of the kids here are those who grew up in the streets of Jakarta, came from a broken home family, have no formal education. We were surprised because the kids here were so actively involved to the event. We sang lots of song, we played quizzes, we had lunch together, we had many games, we even studied a little while we were playing one of the games. We thank so much to Pak Dedy and his wife to give a chance for UF to participate something at their place. We were so lucky to meet such active kids and yet they have tender hearts inside =) We will surely come back to see you guys again soon..

Event 2 - Ukhuwah Islamiyah

The second event on this Ramadan month was held on one orphanage called Ukhuwah Islamiyah, located in Cibubur. There were approximately 70 kids gathered on the eventIn this event, we were not only making interaction by giving personal introduction and games but we also watched one of Indonesia's famous new movie called "Laskar Pelangi". The reason why we chose this movie was because of the inspirational story. The movie has been able to uplift the spirit of the kids to move on with their life no matter what and of course, toward a better life.As usual, we closed the event by having conversation with the kids about their dream, their life and so on. Other than that, we also had some Q&A game about the movie. We had 10 gift for the kids. Luckily they were all really pay attention to the movie because when we give various questions about the topic of the movie, they were all very enthusiastic on answering the questions. We were so happy to see the kids enjoying the moment. One thing for sure, we really hope that by coming to their place and spend some time with the kids, we were able to give them motivation for their life, their study and most importantly their eagerness to learn more and more.

Event 1 Together We Care - McDonald's

Seems like it was only yesterday when Universal Foundation held its first fasting break event with the orphanage. Now a year has passed since that very first time. This year, we have two main Ramadan events. The first event was held in McDonald's Pondok Indah with a small group of 25 children from Majelis Ta'lim Darussalam, age 5 to 13. The reason why we wanted to take the children to break their fast at McDonald's was because most of the children haven't had their chance to have a visit to the fast food restaurant. We had an idea that it would be nice to take the children to eat in the restaurant and to feel the ambiance themselves. We were right. When we opened the event and asked the children whether they have been to McDonald's before, all of the answered "No, we haven't". Therefore, it was the very first time for them to actually eat in McDonald's. We were so happy to have been able to take them there.

A moment before the event started. On the right corner was Ibu Ita, the caretaker of the orphanage.

The various parts of the event, introduction, singing,

Mesza, telling a story to the children while waiting for the time for the fasting break. The story was about a monkey that tends to think only about the short term instead of the longer term. The moral of the story was about how we have to think about what will happen next when we do something. It's like a 'look before you leap'.

It was our happiness to see the children smiling. On this event, we were lucky to gain a support from Dettol - an antiseptic soap. We were given a support in terms of small package of Dettol for the children and also bigger package for the guests and the caretakers.

Marlow, being a host of the event. In this picture, we were trying to make interaction with the children as to introduce themselves one by one to us and also to the guests. Not just introducing their name but also to say what they want to be when they grow up. Most of the girls want to be a teacher and most of the boys want to be a soccer layer and police men.