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2 days ago, i visited a children’s cancer foundation in yogyakarta. At first, it was just for my scholarship social project. Honestly, i never expected this project to take me this far. The project focuses on something that is often forgotten " how children with cancer can still get their right to education" . They are still between zero and eighteen years old, an age when kids should be learning, playing, making friends, and experiencing school like others. My team comes from different places. Some are from Surabaya, Aceh, and Banten, and i’m based in Yogyakarta. Because of that, i decided to find a children’s cancer foundation here by myself. In the beginning, everything felt unclear. I imagined the project would be full of action, meeting the kids, teaching them, spending time together. But my mentor said something that really hit me "action alone is not enough". We need a prototype . Something real. Something useful. That’s how i ended up visiting a children’...

I want to share a small story i got in bandung. It happened when i was on my way to a cafe near ITB. I ordered an online motorcycle ride, and the driver who came was an older man, almost at retirement age. But he was still working. Not because he wanted to, but because he had to. In this economy, surviving is already a challenge. At first, we just talked casually. I asked him what people from outside usually look for when they come to bandung. He answered simply. Bandung is just like this, he said. People come for the cool weather, high places, or just to walk around. Then we talked about food. I told him i had just tried mie kocok . He smiled and said it made sense. Mie kocok is expensive because it uses cow skin, which is hard to get and costs a lot. That was when i found out that he used to sell mie kocok himself. Before the pandemic, his business was doing well. He had many customers, and life was quite comfortable. But after COVID, everything changed. Rent became expensive, co...