Let's save the earth with us!
Little Number, Big Desire to Make Change Alright warriors, the story began when our Project General Advisor met with some enthusiastic youth in Kupang in an event on World Clean Up Day 2018. These young people and Silvia Landa took a real action by picking up plastic bottles and cups from the top of Fatuleu mount, one of the highest point in Timor Island and one of the most extreme mount to climb. But these people made it to climb the tall rock mount and brought back about 10 big sacs of plastic trash that the tourist littered when climbing the mount. Looking at what happened in the environment, Silvia and these youth decided to make a change for the betterment of the environment. Silvia and her small team designed a project that would involve 3 elements from different generations; children, the youth and Education Institution such as school, and what makes it special in this project design is that it would involve youth, children and schools from Kupang and Dili Timor Leste! This project design was then named I Love My Body I Love My Environment and this small team name themselves Timor Eco Warriors because they take action is the Timor Island. This team sent the proposal to sent to YSEALI Seeds guess what, the project is approved! Take a closer look about YSEALI Seeds here: culturalvistas.org/articles/press-releases/2019-yseali-seeds-for-the-future-grant-recipients-announced/ Pre-Grant Workshop, Meeting Other Grantees from All Over South East Asia YSEALI Seeds for Future Grants, trough Cultural Vistas invited two group members to go to Jakarta in to join an event called pre-grant workshop for two days. Team Timor Eco Warriors delegated Adren as the Project Leader and Ana, the Project Secretary to join the workshop. It was wise for the team to invite Ana from Timor Leste to join so that face-to-face meeting between Kupang and Dili team member could be made. Long story short, Adren and Ana took off to Jakarta and join the workshop. Don’t worry, Cultural Vistas paid for the hotel and flight! They both met at Aloft Hotel at Walid Hasym Street Jakarta, the venue of the workshop. They were put together with the other participants from the 21 selected projects from all over South East Asia. That was a fun meeting because all of participant spoke different kinds of English that was influenced by their mother languages. Natalie from Cultural Vistas welcomed us as well as led the workshop. There were other members of YSEALI Seeds officials too. We did some fun games one of them was human BINGO. The workshop focused more about how to plan the effective budgeting for our project, the procedure of the funding, how to work on monthly reports, and even how to use YSEALI Seeds platform to promote our project. All the teams were told that that will be an opportunity to use almost all of the YSEALI Seeds 2019 social media account to promote our project in YSEALI Seeds Media Takeover. Just wait until Timor Eco Warriors take the turn! All the teams were given chance to present our projects in the front of other participants, and were given chance to supporting suggestions to each other. There was also time to sit together with other team members who had similar interest or field to share and find a way to cooperate with their projects. After all the discussion they present again their project and with more detailed information. In the last session they are visited by the previous YSEALI Seeds grantee from Indonesia who are now still running their projects. These alumni teams gave great supports and suggestions. Some even offered to cooperate. While in the workshop, they were asked to create a short video to describe and promote our project. With a very short time that we got, the team managed to create this simple yet beautiful video here web.facebook.com/adrenindonesia/videos/2696832463675302/. This was pretty crappy editing video but the team want to make better promotion videos later on. You can also help with suggestion on video editing or promotion ideas on the comment space bellow. The two days workshop was a great event, now The team is in contact with have Kurt from Vietnam with his Trashalive Project that we are working together with and Tan from Mianmar with her Teens and Dreams project. They were doing great projects and Timor Eco Warriors is collaborating with them in social media promotion. All of these things could be done because of the simple need of making change by some small number of people with the same dream. You can be part of this action by keep supporting us, share our stories and make your action be seen by others. Author: Adren S. Nenobesi
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