Donations for poor students

JAKARTA (JP): The parents and teachers association of Global Jaya School in Bintaro, South Jakarta, has collected Rp 38.3 million under a sponsor-a-child program to be donated to students from poor families.

Ala Sulistyono, the program coordinator, said yesterday that the donation would be given to 14 elementary, junior and high schools located near Global Jaya.

"The funds were collected from parents of students at the school. Individual contributions ranged from Rp 25,000 to Rp 3 million. We have split these donations between 274 students from poor families," she said.

The students were selected after discussion with the head teacher from each of the recipient schools, she added.

Ala said that donations were handed over to eight schools yesterday and the remaining six schools would receive their money today.

"The money has been collected because of our concern that the education of Indonesian children will suffer at the hands of the economic crisis," she said. (hhr)