Rota has started a program in Indonesia that aims at providing ICT infrastructure as well as improving teaching and learning methodologies for teachers, students and administrations in 12 schools.

Moreover, he program will ensure that these schools in Indonesia have the necessary resources to help children learn, improve school management and develop teachers professionally.

This program, launched in partnership with Titian Foundation and Qatar Petroleum, was initiated in 2012 and will be completed in the last quarter of 2015.

In partnership with Mercy Corps, ROTA joined the Global Citizen Corps (GCC) in 2009.  The program’s goal is to inspire and equip an expanding network of young leaders to take informed actions that build and secure productive and just communities throughout the world.  Qatar joins a host of other nations in the network, including the United States, United Kingdom (Scotland), the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Indonesia. 

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Improving the quality of the school management system; improving the capacity of staff and teachers; improving students’ performance; developing the school curriculum and implement a system for continuous curriculum improvement.

Project Facts

Implementing Period:   1 October 2014- 30 September 2015
 

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Titian Foundation
 

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The long-term commitment of ROTA and Titian Foundation to increasing educational opportunities in Bayat has seen the creation of the Qatar-Titian Scholarship Fund, a 3-year scholarship program providing financial assistance for 200 students in the SMKN 1 ROTA Bayat Vocational and other high schools students in the region. 

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In May 2006, an earthquake struck, ripping through Java killing 6,500 people and destroying homes and buildings, consequently affecting over one million people. The village of Bayat was one of the casualties of this disaster. With the beginning of the school year approaching, ROTA and its partners moved quickly to rebuild the kindergarten, primary and secondary school, while also providing make-shift structures for the interim period.

ROTA and its local partner Titian Foundation have rebuilt the school buildings using earthquake resistant specifications.

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According to a national teacher competence assessment, less than half of Indonesian teachers fulfill the basic requirements for teacher quality. With the support of Vodafone Qatar, ROTA has developed a four-year Teacher Quality Improvement (TQI) program to enhance the classroom skills of teachers across the region.

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