Welcome to IIWC work camp! Here comes some information about our camp, how to get there, what you need to bring, etc. We hope this information will give you a lot of ideas and enthusiasm to spend your vacation together with new people in a new place, and doing something worth to others. Get ready for happy days in the adventurer world with our craziness and passion to ease your cultural shock.
IIWC is acronym of Indonesia International Work Camp. Informally, IIWC was formed in September 1999 by IPPA of Central Java (Indonesian Planned Parenthood Association), when IPPA held the first work camp in Mijen, Semarang Residence incorporate with NICE, a work camp organization from Japan.
Seeing the success and positive result of the first work camp, NICE suggested IPPA to form a work camp organization. The suggestion was followed by an invitation for NVDA (Network for Voluntary Development in Asia) meeting in Hanoi Vietnam at 9 - 22 January 2000. In this meeting, we discussed how to run a work camp and everything about it. Since then, IIWC was born and has been organizing around 30 international and bilateral workcamps per year in Indonesia and many other international voluntary services with hundreds of either local or international volunteers involved.
The work camp will be held on 04 – 17 February 2015.
The project will be organized together with Fatimatuzzahra orphanage and some schools in this area. The camp will take place in a nice and friendly village called Mangunharjo Village, Semarang, half an hour by bus from meeting point to the south east. Fatimatuzzahra is famous orphanage in this area, the access to get big
DEAR VOLUNTEERS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF IIWC
mosque (Islamic Centre), mini market, internet cafe, coffee shop, laundry are so easy you can reach them just on foot. Also if you want get an ATM it just 2 KM. If you want to go to the city center or other site of city, you can find public transporatation by walking across the village. There are around 51 children with various ages from 8 – 17 years old who lived in the orphanage. Most of them are Junior and Senior High Schools’ students along with some adult. The children activities after school are reciting holy book, studying about religion, practice rebana, and etc. Those activities are conducted because the orphanage based on islamic culture. IIWC also places one long middle term volunteer to help them in learning English. Therefore you should have high motivation to encourage the children since most of the children are less active and have difficulties in speaking english.
Objectives:
1. To support the English teaching of short and long middle term volunteering project in this orphanage.
2. To promote global understanding and friendship through intercultural learning.
3. To get to know the daily life of orphan children in order to have nice and meaningful relation with them then to share love and happiness together.
4. To improve awareness about cleanliness.
5. To broaden their perspectives of life and possibility of their future dreams-what they want to be in the future
6. To exchange culture between participants and local people. 7. To learn Islamic culture in the orphanage
In several times we organize work camp together with Fatimatuzzahra orphanage. Somehow, this project site has one long term volunteer projects for IIWC. Fatimatuzzahra is a moslem orphanage accommodating not only children without parents but also needy children whose parents could not afford for their formal education. Poverty is a main reason why these parents entrust their children under the education of the orphanage.
In this project the volunteers are expected to share happiness, loves, and cares with them, also the good practices of daily experiences related to a broader perspective about life and living. Below are the activities during the work camp.
AIMS & OBJECTIVES
Together with Fazza (the abbreviation of Fatimatiuzzahra project) Long term volunteer and local partner, we will also teach/ assist/ help the children with the English skill. Volunteers are expected to prepare themselves with creative methods and approaches such as games, songs, quizzes, etc as part of cultural exchange. Volunteers can also arrange other activities of cultural exchange, sport activities, making signs of cleanliness, etc. Do bring snacks, sweet, music, foods or recipes and your traditional clothes for this workcamp.
Fatimatuzahra is a moslem orphanage which usually have schedule to pray 5 times day. Adzan (a calling to pray) is in loud voice in each pray time, so you will hear adzan 5 times in around 4/5 a.m , 12 p.m, 3 p.m, 6 p.m, 7 p.m.
There will be one session talking and learning about Moslem custom in Indonesia There will be cultural exchange between children and participants of work camp.
There will be Indonesian class organized by camp leaders to teach you basic Indonesian language.
Work camp participants could arrange any activities in their daily free time. Somehow, there will be one full free day. For free day it will be excluded from participant fee, so the campers should bear every expense by their own during free day. The camp leaders will provide you any information needed about how to spend the free day easily. Enjoy!
FREE TIME STUDY PART We usually collaborate with Rumah Pintar Bangjo (Smart house) Organization, so that we combine the schedule with them. The main work will be creating, organizing, doing non-We will have different schedules with SPECIAL REMARKS We usually collaborate with Rumah Pintar Bangjo
(Smart house)
Organization, so that we combine the schedule with them. The main work will be creating, organizing,
doing non-formal
educational games with the children under the age 7-18. We will have different schedules with different age group for the children. Your ideas for this will be helping the methodology of the activity.
The activities can be break down as follows ;
1. Provide information about health to children
2. School visit – doing
street children condition 3. Outreach or
1. We expect all volunteers to have read and understood this information. Be in time and stay the entire length of the camp.
2. We expect all volunteers are aware the basic concept of international voluntary service, especially international workcamp which is not a cheap way of spending your holiday time but a voluntary activity that needs your high motivation and will to achieve a certain goal together with your team. 3. Realize that the living conditions in Indonesia is different than at home (no warm water/ not
clean/no air-conditioning/not easy access to international phone or internet/not easy transportation all the times/ no soft beds/ bugs/mosquitoes/different food etc.).
4. All volunteers should understand the aims of the workcamp and realize that learning about the Indonesian way and the social contact is more important than the manual work.
5. We expect all the volunteers to be open minded, leave prejudice behind and show initiative.
6. English should be spoken with other volunteers in the camp, even if these people do not join the conversation.
7. Volunteers should understand for the situation to spend times with local people who do not speak English very well. Volunteers should make the effort in trying to communicate in basic Indonesian or other ways of communicating (work, pictures, gestures, etc.) If you will try, you will be amazed how quick you will learn basic Bahasa Indonesia!
8. Because the people are quite religious islamic here, behavior and dress should be noticed the local culture, especially when in the village or offices. (No tank tops, knees should be covered).
9. Flexibility is expected from everybody as well as the realization that the Indonesian way of life and work is less stressed and should always be fun, no matter how hard the work is!
10. Don’t complain because the schedule might be changed throughout the camp, depending on conditions and situation. So bring some flexibility and stay relaxed and you will avoid a lot of stress and frustration for yourself.
11. Creativity and ideas for the work, discussions, the campsite, excursions and free time are expected to come from the group during the camp. Share your thoughts and ideas!
1. Eternal friendship with IIWC volunteers and local community 2. Intercultural Learning
3. Find a natural life
4. Innocent children nearby and in the campsite 5. Warm full family
6. Funny and new words
7. Funny games and energizers 8. Sun burnt
9. Mosquito bites
10. Beautiful sceneries of Indonesia especially during The free day 11. Seeing the buffalo
WHAT WE EXPECT?
We will stay in the orphanage together with traditional shared toilet and bathroom, kitchen and living room. Please note that Indonesian toilet is not American strandard, there is no flush and toilet paper. There will be no beds in the camp side, so please bring your own matress and sleeping bag. The volunteers will share toilet and bathroom with the people in the orphanage. Campsite address is at Panti Asuhan Fatimatuszharo, Mangunharjo Village, Tembalang Municiality, Semarang City, Central Java Indonesia.
1. Shoes and formal clothes (t-shirt or shirt with collar for school/university visit) 2. Sporty costume for outdoor activities.
3. Your traditional clothes (such as hanbok from Korea, Kimono from Japan, etc).
4. Mosquito repellent (mosquito net if it necessary for you because there will be many mosquitoes). 5. Receipt and spices (you will cook your traditional meals) if you want to cook traditional food
6. Your own medicine though we will provide general medicines (i.e: itchy powder or any allergic drugs)
7. Ideas for games, and campaign activities for raising awareness
8. Any info from your sending organization and country (leaflet, brochure, poster, sticker, book, newsletter and so on)
9. Lots of loves, motivations, and smiles ACCOMODATION
WHAT SHOULD YOU BRING?
Picture of Indonesian shared toilet and bathroom
FOOD AND HEALTH
Meals are not provided; volunteers will join the daily team (Cooking, washing and cleaning team every day) which will be in shifts. The washing team should wash dishes and the cleaning team should clean rooms in the accommodation. Foods will be responsible for cooking team. For this, when you become cooking team in certain dates, you’re free to cook your own traditional foods, just make sure you bring your own special recipe which might not be found in Indonesia. If you are vegetarian you should inform the camp leaders previously, so we can arrange it. However, vegetarians should not expect several different dishes besides vegetables and eggs, as it is not so common to eat vegetables and fruits only in the village.
In general, Indonesians get three times meals a day with some side dishes. Only basic meal will be provided (rice, side dishes, fruits, not much of meat nor milk) Drinking water as well as tea and coffee are provided in our camp).
Alcohol or
any other drugs are forbidden and cigarette
should be very
limited, not in front of children.
IIWC Volunteer house at Jalan Jembawan II, No.10 Semarang Central Java Indonesia 50145. The house is located behind PKBI building/ white blue building. ( IIWC Office is at Jalan Jembawan raya no.8/ IIWC office in the white blue building of PKBI at 1st floor in the right corner next to car garage. )
T: +62-24-7603503; F: +62-24 -7601989.
You can arrive anytime, but the deadline of arrival time for Fazza Camp should be on February 4th, 2015 before 12 o'clock, so please inform us about your date and time of arrival at the latest one week before work camp starts. Urgent call; Sany/ STV co (+6285226522743)
T: +62-24-7603503; F:+62-24 - 7601989.
The deadline of arrival time for Borobudur Camp MEETING POINT
PARTICIPATION FEE
The participation should be paid at least 2 weeks before before arrival day will be 185 Euros covering the foods, accommodation, local transport for project, IIWC T-shirt, police certificate, IIWC certificate of participation, management fee and material for the camps. Volunteers are requested to bear their own health and travel insurance. Please keep it in your mind that all personal expenses and free day expenses are excluded.
*All the expenses except these items above will be paid by participants.
*Volunteers are requested to bear their own health and travel insurance.
Tentative schedule will be sent via email 2 or 1 week before the workcamp starts by your campleaders. Please send your confirmation of arrival when you get welcoming email from your campleaders and you’re freely to ask everything about project, Indonesia in general, some nice places, and so on.
HOW TO GET SEMARANG CITY & Meeting Point ?
HOW TO GET SEMARANG CITY?You need to land in Soekarno Hatta airport at Jakarta, then you need to continue the travel to Semarang city, it is about 600 km away western of Jakarta:
1. By Plane
There are some daily flights from Jakarta to Semarang that you should book before you Will leave your country or if you are lucky than you can get the seat in the airport.
Below are some flight companies that you can take to and from Semarang. Garuda Indonesia airlines (www.garuda-indonesia.com)
Air Asia airlines (http://www.airasia.com) Sri Wijaya airlines ( www.sriwijayaair.co.id) Lion air (www.lion-air.co.id)
Batavia airlines (www.batavia-air.co.id)
Mandala Airlines (http://www.mandalaair.com/)
Each domestic airlines located in different terminal, please be aware of this. In case you do not take Garuda for your domestic flight to Semarang, you need to change from terminal 2 to terminal 1 or 3.So, after taking your luggage, go out from the airport, follow the departure sign, go to the 2nd floor gate and catch the yellow subtle bus driving between terminal 1, 2, and 3. This is a free bus. For domestic flights, we recommend Garuda Indonesia or Air Asia.
Tell the driver which air company you are flying with and he will let you off there. Then you just need to check in. Please note that the public bus operates only up to 10 pm. After this time, you need to get a taxi to go out from the airport. For taxi, We recommend Bluebird taxi.
2. By Train
Check the schedule and prices of the train; please check at http://www.kereta-api.co.id/ (Bahasa Indonesia only) You need to buy the ticket directly in the locket in the train station. But, we notice, oneday if you do not get
your ticket to Semarang, then you could not get ticket on the same day. So, we recommend to you to change your transportation. Or, if you arrived in Jakarta just for arrival transit, you can use the plane to go to Semarang.
To take train from Jakarta airport, you need to reach Gambir Train station (Central Station of Jakarta). There are some connections or train route to Semarang City. You can check on information board in the train station or directly ask ticket person in locket.
How to get to Gambir train station from Jakarta Airport? a. By Bus
From Jakarta (Soekarno-Hatta) Airport
On your arrival day in Jakarta, you need to go out of the arrival gate, and look for DAMRI Bus Shelter. Follow the sign of BUS/DAMRI. Or if you cannot find it, ask the airport officers or security. If you arrive at the Terminal 2 in Jakarta airport, you need to go down stair go out of the arrival gate and find the elevator/lift, go down and again find the direction of BUS/DAMRI.
DAMRI Bus Stop DAMRI Ticket Box Waiting Room
Checked ticket by Gambir train station gate guard
direction GAMBIR. You will get ticket and you must keep it until get off as ticket check is random.
And there is no exact Bus Schedule. You will need to check the information at the DAMRI BUS shelter. And you can also ask about the bus schedule to the BUS DAMRI officers (DAMRI UNIFORM is normally in light blue color). They inform the arrival of DAMRI buses by shouting when the DAMRI BUS is approaching the shelther.
So, in this case, you have to pay attention to the direction of “Gambir”.
DAMRI Bus Operating Hours: 04.00 – 19.30 WIB (from Gambir), 05.00 – 23.30 WIB (from Air Port) + 02.00 WIB (from Air Port)
b. By Taxi
You can also go to Gambir Train Station by taxi, but it will cost you more (around Rp. 150.000,-). The taxi is always available. It takes you around 1 hour to the train station based on the traffic condition. You can order/booking taxi via on line. For further information and detail contact please kindly check in http://www.bluebirdgroup.com/id/. What if your flight arrives quite late in Jakarta??? Where should you stay???
In case your flight arrives in Jakarta quite late, you can stay in the airport hotel or you can go to Jalan Jaksa for
DAMRI Bus Stop Bus Price List at DAMRI Bus
Station
Your bus have a route Route : Gambir – Pasar Baru – Jalan Garuda – Kemayoran – Tol Kemayoran – Tol Sedyatmo – Bandara Soekarno-Hatta – Slipi Jaya – Gambir. The Bus departs one time in every 15 – 30 Minutes.
It will be charge 25,000 IDR per trip.
cheap accommodation. The transit hotel in Jakarta airport will cost you arround US $ 40. In Jalan Jaksa, you can get the place to stay from the range of Rp. 100.000,- up to Rp. 180.000,- for one night.
To go to Jalam Jaksa, catch “Damri” bus to Gambir for Rp. 25.000,- and take traditional orange cab called bajaj for Rp. 15.000,- from the station to Jalan Jaksa. You can find room easily there and just ask the bajaj driver to take you to some hotels and guess houses available. Then, if you need to go to the airport the following day, just take bajaj to Gambir and take Damri to Sukarno Hatta airport. Please consider the time because it is quiet long distance and traffic jams occur in day time.
3. By Bus
From Sukarno Hatta Airport you need to take DAMRI Airport bus with the last destination of either PULOGADUNG bus terminal, LEBAKBULUS bus terminal, or RAWA MANGUN bus terminal. It costs Rp.25.000 and takes about 1 hour.
> From PULOGADUNG bus terminal > From LEBAKBULUS bus terminal > From RAWA MANGUN bus terminal
You may take any brand of bus; just make sure that you take executive or super executive class (with Air conditioner). It takes about 8-10 hours by bus. It costs about Rp. 200.000 or less. Your destination is SEMARANG, and your stop in Semarang city is COYO KALIBANTENG. Once you arrive there you will see a big banner of PKBI Jateng, about 10 meters high in the left side of the street, follow this banner, because that is the building where IIWC office is.
We can recommend you one trusted night bus it is NUSANTARA. It has morning bust from Jakarta to Semarang depart at 7 am and night bus depart at 4pm. It costs Rp. 150.000. You may check the website at http://www.nu3tara.com/
After arriving in Semarang then you can follow the below direction: 1. From Semarang airport
You can walk from the airport to the office or you can go by taxi. It is only 15 minutes walking from the airport to the office.
will take you not more than 10 minutes to reach office and you need to pay Rp. 25.000,- up to Rp. 35.000,- (US $ 3)
2. From Tawang Train Station
It takes around 25-30 minutes from the train station to the office. You need to take taxi and just tell the taxi driver to take you to kantor PKBI at Jalan Jembawan Raya No 8 Kalibanteng Semarang. You need to pay around Rp. 25.000,-up to Rp. 30.000,-
It is better for you to go out first from the train station and grab a bluebird taxi. This taxi is using Argo meter and they will not cheat you somehow and very recommended one. To get to know this taxi company, please check them at http://www.bluebirdgroup.com
3. From COYO KALIBANTENG bus stop
Once you arrive there you will see a big banner of PKBI Jateng 50 meters turn left, about 10 meters high in the left side of the street, follow this banner, because that is the building where IIWC office is.
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Another way to Semarang is via Denpasar, Bali:
1. Take the airplane from Denpasar to Surabaya.
2. Take a taxi to the railway station of Surabaya (you should pay a toll for the taxi driver). 3. Take a train to Semarang. There are only two trains in a day.
4. Take a taxi to PKBI office.
We recommend you to take the morning train rather than the night one because it is much more convenient to get a taxi then.
PS. PLEASE TAKE TARE OF YOUR OWN LUGGAGE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN ANY AIRPORTS, TRAIN STATIONS, OR BUS TERMINALS IN INDONESIA, OTHERWISE, THE INDONESIAN PORTERS WILL EXPECT SOME MONEY/ EXTRA TIPS FROM YOU. IN CASE YOU NEED A PORTER, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU GIVE THE TIPS NOT MORE THAN 1 USD.
Map Capture “How to get Meeting Point”
--- : Nearest way to IIWC Volunteer House (+ 1 Km)
