Why we started Runcing Foundation:
You know when you read how many child marriages happen still across the country? Or those bright kids in grade 7th who had to drop out to help their parents at the farm in Sumbawa? These young girls who reach their school by foot at the risk of being sexually harassed on their way home? These are real stories even today. These kids could’ve been me. It could’ve been just about anyone who was not born into privileges.
Since 2017, my friends and I have been driven to share vision and help tackle education disparities we see in Indonesia by improving access to quality education across the island we have the local expertise in. It’s a complex job. Grassroots and global NGOs took years and decades to help solve this. Is it solely the government’s job? Is it the PEMDA and local government with limited funds who do not allocate enough or have the support funneled through to the very end beneficiaries?
What we do: helping in the ways we know how – no matter how little.
Since our inception, we have achieved remarkable milestones. We’ve helped build school classes in Alor, NTT, a few schools in North Lombok post-earthquake in 2018, and helped procure learning materials in Maluku in 2019, aided virtual learning tools across 7 remote islands surrounding NTB during covid in 2020, worked with local partners to provide bright students scholarships in NTB, NTT, and Papua in 2021-2022, and just recently, pivoted a teachers training program in South Lombok. I’ve come to learn there’s no one formula for all in a country as vast and complex as Indonesia. We rely heavily on the help of our local friends for every unique approach that works for each of these issues we discover on the ground, eventually enabling access to quality education.
All these have become beacons of hope, where dreams take flight, and futures are built. It took people like us, families who believe in their children’s potential, our dedicated teachers who get paid 3 cups of coffee cups every three months (and mostly probono), and especially you, donors from kind corporations and individuals like you.
I need your help, ofcourse
It was my birthday a few days ago. The journey I’ve had with my team does not end here. We are not stopping. Join us as we continue to build, train teachers, and sponsor more students in underserved areas.
Our Next Chapter: Sponsoring More Students – Keep Them in School!
As we look to the future, the Runcing Foundation is steadfast in its commitment to expanding educational opportunities. Our next endeavor is clear: we are focused on sponsoring more children in school by continuing our scholarship program: one-year support for 50 kids in Papua, NTT, and NTB.
At the tip of your fingers, you can help make that significant impact on students, families, and teachers by:
- 1. Donating any amount once to: https://runcing.org/en/donate (it takes ovo, gopay, credit cards, all bank virtual accounts) –> you will receive a receipt from our system confirming the donation, or stay anonymous should you opt to.
- Joining Our Monthly Donor Program: Consider becoming a part of our monthly donor program. SIGN UP HERE to make a recurring commitment to support our initiatives. Reports will be sent to you regularly ofcourse.
- Refering us to a company / big NGO you think would be keen on taking part: I’ll happily be in touch and take this onwards. Directly email ny of this email: carlos@runcing.org / bagus@runcing.org / lalucarlos@gmail.com 🙂
We are raising the north of IDR 200mio to support all programs commencing in 2023. The foundation issues annual reports and have been audited for the past 4 years I will keep updating this page on updating how much we’ve raised and everything we need to be transparent about – or via our official website on runcing.org 🙂
Thanks for reading along – and I’m grateful for your immense support. Every penny could go a LONG way!! God bless 🙂
Muhammad Carlos 