Recognizing Education as a vital tool to alleviate poverty and gain access to job opportunities, EGK\u2019s mission is to make education more widely accessible on Sumba Island.<\/p>\n
Sumba\u2019s children and youth, its generation of hope, are ill-prepared and ill-positioned to deal with the inherent challenges and opportunities of this new economic stimulus on their own. Few of the Sumbanese who live in rural villages (where poverty is at its most marked) speak English. Yet a basic command of the English language is an important stepping stone to tapping into job opportunities presenting themselves through the burgeoning tourism sector and other related sectors. There is a real need to provide Sumba\u2019s village youth with resources to learn English.<\/p>\n
In 2015, the initiative began with Asti conducting English and life skills classes for her students in local villages (kampungs) who were unable to attend school because the distance was too far or because they were struggling to meet the demands of daily survival. Today, the foundation reaches over 1,000 children along Sumba\u2019s coastal areas and inland villages with 80\u0003volunteers organizing and coordinating activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
English Goes to Kampung (EGK) is a grassroots organization founded by English Teacher and Activist Roswita Asti Kulla. Recognizing Education as a vital tool to alleviate poverty and gain access to job opportunities, EGK\u2019s mission is to make education more widely accessible on Sumba Island. Sumba\u2019s children and youth, its generation of hope, are ill-prepared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1797,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_burch_philanthropy_project.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1796","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n