YEU and UGM Show Local Wisdom in Co...
Community resilience in facing disasters continues to be strengthened by various disaster management (DM) actors, including humanitarian institutions, one of which is the YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU), and educational institutions, such as the Faculty of Psychology at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM). YEU and the Faculty collaborated to organize the IDEAKSI Demo Day and Symposium in the F...
PERNYATAAN SIKAP DAN PESAN SOLIDARI...
PERNYATAAN SIKAP DAN PESAN SOLIDARITAS ANGGOTA-ANGGOTA FORUM ACT ALLIANCE DI INDONESIA (ACTIF) Menanggapi pernyataan yang disampaikan Forum ACT (Action by Churches Together) Palestina pada 19 Oktober 2023, kami anggota-anggota Forum ACT Alliance di Indonesia menyampaikan solidaritas dan dukacita yang mendalam. Konflik bersenjata antara kelompok militan Palestina pimpinan Hamas...
YEU Staff Prepares to Conduct an Ef...
Four representative staff from the YAKKUM Emergency Unit, Briant Nino Aditya, Brigita Ra Sekar Laras, Dhinar Rizki Linggar Kinkin, and Otniel Nahoga Christa, left for the Philippines to take part in emergency response training organized by HelpAge International from 14-19 August 2023. Other HelpAge International partners in Asia, COSE (Coalition of Service of the Elderly) from the Phi...
YEU Increases Disaster Management C...
“According to the Humanitarian Inclusion Standards, there are several barriers that prevent people with disabilities and the elderly from participating meaningfully in disaster risk reduction (DRR) actions, such as attitudinal barriers, environmental barriers, and institutional barriers”. This is the opening narration delivered in the video introduction of the Indonesian participa...
Dialogue on Loss and Damage Due to ...
For the first time at COP27, countries agreed to allocate funding to address loss and damage caused by climate change. However, the agreement requires follow-up and commitment from countries to design loss and damage funding, including who is obliged to contribute to loss and damage funding and who has the right to receive it. The Huairou Commission, a global network of women's gro...
Church Volunteer Jamboree #2: Becom...
(Group photo after the outbound) The Diakonia is one of the functions and duties of the church to carry out the works of Christ in the world. Diakonia ministry is not always conducted within the church but also outside the church. Volunteer Jamboree #2 is the part of disaster preparedness training activities for church volunteers who have participated in training with YAKKUM Eme...
YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU) Collabo...
YAKKUM Emergency Unit (YEU), with funding support from its partner Arbeiterwohlfahrt International (AWO International), partnered with village governments and the Cianjur Regency Population and Civil Registration Agency to provide identity card services to the community, especially elderly people, people with disabilities, and pregnant women. The activity took place in five villages i...
New IDEAKSI Innovators Announced!
The First IDEAKSI (Idea, Innovation, Action, Inclusion) Program was concluded on a high note in March 2023. 4 out of 9 innovators with scale-up support have journeyed through various ways to sustain their initiatives. Taking the learnings from the earlier implementation, the Second IDEAKSI (IDEAKSI 2.0) Program commenced in May 2023 with reflective workshops for the Community-Led I...
YEU Partners Promote Resilience of ...
Persons with disabilities in Indonesia have been more involved in society. Increased support by the government can also be seen from the enactment of a law on persons with disabilities in 2016 and a number of related regulations. A biennial event named the Inclusion Gathering (Temu Inklusi) uses this momentum to continuously increase the participation of persons with disabilities up t...
Women's Leadership to Foster Streng...
Photo with Peer Exchange participants in Southeast Asia The First Peer Exchange After COVID-19 Pandemic In the years during the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, many activities have been delayed or even cancelled, including the Peer Learning Exchange activities for grassroots women's groups. Grassroots women's groups of Huairou Commission members in Southeast Asia met in the P...
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