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Get english course and sustainability classes by bringing 5 kilograms of recyclable trash.

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Trash for Class is a program which provides English classes to Balinese children in Sibangkaja, Bali aged 7 - 17. Instead of paying the course with cash, the participants pay it with a minimum of 5 kilograms of recyclable trash per semester. By exchanging trash with class, the students have the opportunity to learn the value of trash, instead of dumping and burning it they can bring to our facility and get free English classes. Trash that has been collected from the students is delivered to our own recycling center with 21 categories of trash. Besides the English lesson, we also implement experiential and experimental curriculum on waste education at the students' own school. We develop 14 hands-on, in-class and field trip lesson plan to be shared to the students. In running this program, we have 3 full time members and 9 volunteers in our team coming from different backgrounds of Education, engineering, and hospitality. We worked at the same place in Bali and shared the same vision, mission, and passion within education and environmental sustainability. We started to establish a project in 2015 to educate the kids in Bali which we called ‘Trash for Class’ which focus on educating the young generation to have a sustainable lifestyle. Get classes by bring trash.
Here are the team :
Abid Kamalsyah : Engineering background member who responsible on product development from plastic waste by using the shredding and injection plastic machines. He will ensure the sustainability of the project.
Mujahidah : Education background member who responsible for running the education program especially on developing waste management curricuclum for primary students.
Eka Raditya : Hospitality background member who responsible for the marketing and communitcation department to spread the mission of Trash for Class program through online and offline communication channels.
Landfill in Bali receives 3000 tons waste per day without any further process. As a tourism island which attracts many people to come, the number of waste produced in Bali is keep growing, which they predict the landfill can only acomodate its space for the next 5 years. Students especially, are clueless the impact of burning trash and also dumping it to the landfill. They are basically following what has just happened form the previous generation. It is getting worse when there is lack of information in the school curriculum which discuss about this issue. What they know is as long as they already put the trash in the bin, the waste problem is solved. It is just bring the problem to the next level. They do not know where their waste goes after, which apparently can link to other problem such as air, water and land pollution. Therefore, we develop trash for class program, we find a unique way to attract them to not put their recyclable trash in the landfill, instead bring it to our facility and get free english classes and environmental fun learning. Besides we also install separation bins at their own school. Our target is school community because 80% of the school waste is recyclable, so they can make a huge impact to minimize waste ended up in the landfill if they can recycle their own waste within the school.
We start at 2015 with 50 students and now our community dynamically growing every year and currently, we have 400 students with a strong commitment coming from all around local schools in Bali. From 2015, we have been collected more than 8000 kilograms of recyclable trash and bring it to the recycling center. These number of trash that we can collect is also becoming an eye-opening as well as the achievemnt for our students that that can prevent those much waste ended up in the landfill. These changemakers successfully bring impacts to their community by implementing the concept of Trash for Class in their local schools through the installation of separation bins. We have installed separation bins at 8 schools around our facility, which not just installing we also have just implemented long term education program with hands-on activities start with Grade 5 students. In coming year, with more educators join our program. We can implement for the whole students who participate in Trash for Class program. Align with our mission, we provide them with an Activism class as a campaign to promote avoiding single-use plastic products trough art performance around Bali. This brings them to the fruition of successfully attending the climate change conference in Germany and Katowice, Poland. Last but not least, this literally leads us to get more trust from the community to expand this project.
We strongly believe that by joining this #Besociopreneur campaign program, will be a great platform for us to network, exchange knowledge and collaborate with like-minded people. The benfit of this networking is to sustain the impact of trash for class program not only in Bali, but also in other parts of Indonesia. As we all agree that waste problem is not just happening in Bali, it is happening in every part of Indonesia. Thus, by having direct conversation with those passionate people, as somebody who already have solution especially on education, we can develop impactful collaboration with other community which focus in other area to tackle waste problem such as: government advocation, women empowerment, village-based recycling center, waste bank system, and many more with a same mission to really stop the growing waste problem in Indoensia. Furthermore, we are developing products from plastic and in need of insights in how to promote and sell this products widely, as we know the team of #BeSociopreneur have strong expertise on how to sustain projects impactly as well as financially since none of us have strong background in business. Therefore, being a participant on this program will really benefit us, because we not share what we already know but also enrich our knowledge how to be a real sociopreneur.

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