— How we collaborate with the Culinary and Baking Program with Eats, Shoots, and Roots. Our next creative education event was originally scheduled on 22 June 2021. However, due to the prolonged pandemic situation and respective regulations, we had to postpone the event until the situation gets better. *From 1st…

– Giving Children a Skill to Draw Their Blueprint In my last blog post “Power of Photography, Part I”, I wrote about how CHANGE Education Fund came to partner with Buku Jalanan Chow Kit (BJCK) and decided our program contents. In this article, I will write about how the two…

– Encouraging Children to Have Their Own Perspectives — The First Collaborative Educational Event in Malaysia Today I will write about our second event collaboration, which became the CHANGE Education Fund’s very FIRST collaborative educational event happening in Malaysia. Our collaboration partner was Buku Jalanan Chow Kit (BJCK). I was introduced to contact Siti Rahayu, one of the Co-Founders of Buku Jalanan Chow Kit in August…

- A Project Sample on How to Remotely Support a Nonprofit to Be More Effective. Project Sample #1 In my last article, I wrote about CHANGE Education Fund’s activities as a Micro-Grant donor in its inaugural year 2020. The amount is roughly $100 for each project. Yes, very small. In…

How I crafted my personal donation program. In my previous articles on “What are the 5 Crucial Pieces of Advices for Starting Your Own Charity in Asia?” …

The rationales behind my decision that I now dare to share. In February 2020, I launched my personal donation/grant-making project called “CHANGE Education Fund” to support creative educational activities for under-resourced children primarily in Malaysia and also other countries in Southeast Asia. In my last article “5 Crucial Pieces of…

Here are the tips that pushed me forward in my journey. In February 2020, I launched my personal project named “CHANGE Education Fund” to support creative educational activities for under-resourced children primarily in Malaysia and also other countries in Southeast Asia. Starting this project took a lot of thinking, reflecting…

Dear distinguished guests, and ladies and gentlemen, Good morning. My name is Ai Goto, Assistant Director at the Japan Foundation, Jakarta. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak at this ASEM LLL Hub Conference “Lifelong Learning and Resilience in Disaster Management: Asian and European Perspectives”. While this room…

Which skills did you want to know at early stage of your life? For me, these are leadership and goal-setting. These are crucial for us to perform in today’s real world in the era of uncertainty, and yet very rare to be taught at schools, especially in Asia. My educational…