Rajawali Foundation Delivers Assistance for Children’s Education Relief at Mount Sinabung

Jakarta, 20 March 2014 – Rajawali Foundation delivers assistance of stationaries and other
studying utilities to 187 children in the refuge shelter of Mount Sinabung disaster’s victims, in Brastagi, Karo District, North Sumatera, on Thursday (3/20).

Rajawali Foundation Director, Agung Binantoro, said the assistance is given in the forms of school uniforms, ties, caps, shoes, and shocks. Also, some studying utilities; books, stationaries, and bags. Moreover, other than physical assistance, “We also provide additional tutors for after school additional classes, and some collective donation funds from Rajawali Corpora’s employee participation,” said Agung.

Agung added, “Hopefully this assistance would help in relieving the burden of the refugees, especially children who are students at school. The eruption of Mount Sinabung that had immobilized the local economic for months, should not halt the educational activities for children any further,” He said.

Rajawali Foundation is a philantrophic organization of Rajawali Corpora, one of the biggest investment holding company in Indonesia, which also owns business units including; PT Express Transindo Utama, Tbk (Express Group)., Archipelago Indonesia, and Green Eagle Group. Express Group, as a leading transportation service provider in Indonesia, also providing its commitment in social activities by supporting some operational activities; conducting survey and actively coordinating the strategy in distributing our supports and donations, in the evacuation’s location.

Rajawali Foundation Program Manager, Anugraha Dezmercoledi, who will be delivering the assistance himself at the location, said this activity is an action of the Group’s social concern. “One of our priorities in carrying out social activities is to deliver assistance to the victim of natural disasters. We hope these assistances will be useful for the victims, especially the students, and hopefully this will be a trigger for more people to carry out a similar action like we do, so that we would overcome this disaster together,” told Anugraha.

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