Selamat Datang dan Salam Kenal.

We are thrilled to welcome you around in the Indonesian YES Alumni Association(IYAA). IYAA was first established last October 2009, and it did took us a while to arrange to finally launch this, please pardon us for that.

You are about to gather as much information on life after program that hopefully we could capture from a variety of point of view. Volunteers that arranged your selection and departure, seniors who helped share stories, US State Department and US Embassy who would have thrilled to hear from you, your host community back in US, well, pretty much everybody would love to know how things are with you.

Yes, we are forever attached with our fellow friends and volunteers that had helped the on-going of this program: US State Department and US Embassy Representative in Indonesia, Yayasan Bina Antarbudaya, AFS Intercultural Programs, PAX, and AIFS. Also the ones who have been putting their faith in the program from its very first step.

This would be our smallest gratitude in honoring your irreplaceable act of deeds. As we learnt through this years, we are sharing how nothing is vain, the time, the effort, and prayers that brought us to where we are. So, Alumna, please kindly continue to inspire us by seeing how your lives slides, touch and be touched by those who had put meanings in your lives - no matter how small they are.

We thank you.

Monday, 5 April 2010

Launching the Establishment of IYAA

Dear You,

The weekend of October 9th-11th 2009, a YES Alumni Conference and Workshop was held in Yogyakarta by Yayasan Bina Antarbudaya and organized by committee that involved volunteers of the National Office as well as Yogyakarta Chapter. In short, the meeting went wonderfully great. Friends from 15 chapters in Indonesia came as representatives of YES Alumni and gathered to share. We made history by founding the YES alumni association in Indonesia. And now, we are proud to share that the Indonesian YES Alumni Association (IYAA) has been established.

Each chapter would have their local chapter representatives (entitled the Chapter Coordinator). Please go to our Board Profile to check on who your CC.

With almost 500 alumni spread out and about, we are pretty sure everybody is doing their parts in their communities. Yet, having an association would indeed help how we could constantly ensure that each of us pass on to affect others in the simplest ways we could.

Doing our parts.
We hope you still remember why you were being sent there because that would help you understand why this association was made in the first place. We had had our chance to bridge understanding by touching peoples’ lives in US, one person at a time, from your host family and community. Many, we believe, have been very influential in their communities by doing small things and projects. Free English classes, book drive, disaster relief donation, volunteer works for the YBA chapter, environmental campaign, and many others. You probably do it without any support whatsoever from you-don’t-know-who-to-expect-the support-from. Some probably feel like your spirit has been discouraged with just too busy schedule and or pessimistic remarks.

The Indonesian YES Alumni Association (IYAA) then was established so that all YES Alumni can bring their maximum potentials in helping the community and to provide the source of support and energy possible for you. It was as well founded to strengthen our sense of belonging to the experience we have gratefully undergone, and serve as a reminder of our duties to do our parts now.

As IYAA team works to settle some administrative details needed for IYAA, we will stay in touch with you. But, meanwhile, unleash yourself, now you have backups to leap.

(RNP/TLA)
at 08:11

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