Since 2017, Cases 4 Care Indonesia, in alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) - Quality Education, has been, since 2017, a student-led organization on a vital mission to provide quality education and uplift the lives of undocumented migrant children living in Bantar Gebang, South East Asia's largest garbage landfill site.
Through fundraising, lobbying, and advocacy, we have filled and furnished five multipurpose libraries on the 200-acre site, offering a safe-haven for 1000 undocumented children living among 29 million tonnes of waste. Because these children lack birth certificates and government welfare, they are barred from free schooling or scholarships set up by the government.
With student ambassadors nation wide (from Bali, North Jakarta, etc), and a collaboration with ACE Hardware, Informa and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Compassionate Systems Learning we hope to change the lives of migrant children in Bantar Gebang.
In 2023, I received the prestigious “Diana Award” for this 5-year project, which had granted me insight into the challenges faced by work migrants, particularly in their pursuit of economic mobility.
Cases 4 Care is my effort to understand economic outcome for the migrants in Bantar Gebang, which I continue researching in my research paper with Harvard Law Senior Researcher Gokhan Aykac.
Our Impact:
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5 libraries for 1,000 children
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1,500 books
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1,000 healthy food and drinks
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500 toys
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500 pieces of clothing