Aksi untuk NTT was established by a group of volunteers in a program called Kado untuk Anak Indonesia that was held by Mata Garuda in Pathau, Kabupaten Kupang, on 16 January 2016. In response to high enthusiast from the volunteers, we decided to create a community called Aksi untuk NTT on 22 January 2016.

We hope that through this community, youth in East Nusa Tenggara can get involved in the effort to build and develop their hometown. Based on SDG Pyramid To Happiness, our programs focus on Ecology (Goals number 11 to 15) and People (Goals number 3 and 4).

Our members and volunteer have various background and profession. Most of our volunteers are university students, but we also have many government and private sector employees in our team.

In the organization structure, we have team Aksi and volunteers. Team Aksi consists of 15 youth who run the organization in structure. Each of the team has her/his role and responsibility such as Leader, Secretary, Treasurer, General Council, Youth Ambassador, Public Relation, Documentation, Creative, and Logostic. We renew the structure every year (except for the general council) so we will post the current structure in another post. We also have a volunteer group where the members can participate in our project and event in one-time-only or in regular basis. Now we have 350 volunteers in our database who are always enthusiast to follow our updates and join our events.

The issue we are trying to solve is low participation of East Nusa Tenggara youth in the SDGs. Many youth especially those who are in senior high school and undergraduate study do not really understand -or even care- about what is SDGs and what they can do to participate in it. There are many cases show that many youth prefer to spend their spare time on meaningless activities. We would like to gather as many youth as possible to unlock their potential for reaching the SDGs through the region development by providing support systems, leadership workshop and mentoring, and volunteerism activities. Until now, we have held more than 20 events since 2016 and we will share the story of each event in our campaign page. We believe that no matter how small our action is, it contributes to the development of our beloved province.