IMPACT Grows in East Java

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East Java is a place where a great story of a great story of IMPACT is told, starting with a seed and watching it grow.

Mr. Arif Darmawan, "The World is Just a Book Away"

Arif Darmawan is an 2015 Freedom Through Literacy Award HONORABLE MENTIONS winner. At the time of the award, Arif was credited with helping promote literacy and education by developing 55 libraries with more than 42,000 books and programs that plant the seeds of leadership, environmental consciousness and community connection in East Java, Indonesia through the organization The World is Just a Book Away. These libraries impacted 28,000 Indonesian school children.

NOW, WIJABA is working in close partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI), WIJABA is in the process of introducing the Jane Goodall Institute’s “Roots & Shoots” environmental awareness program across WIJABA network  libraries in Sidoarjo (East Java) and Padang (West Sumatra), Indonesia.

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