Among millions of students who are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, Heni is struggling to keep learning. She is one of the students in rural Indonesia who is in YUM’s sponsorship program.

Roughly, there are 840 million people still living living in the planet without electricity (source: The Energy Progress Report).

We can all agree that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed all our lives drastically. For the people in rural Indonesia, life was already very hard due to poverty but the pandemic has made it more difficult.

From November to December 2020, Yayasan Usaha Mulia successfully conducted a 3-week training session for elementary school teachers in Cipanas, West Java, Indonesia.

About 24 million Indonesians still lack safe water. The use of contaminated water for drinking, cooking and washing correlates directly with the high incidence of a wide range of preventable diseases.