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A covered market stall space: a volunteer-led effort in Jakarta Selatan

A community-led a covered market stall space at Sycamore Primary School that will serve 195 neighbors.

🇮🇩 Jakarta Selatan, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia1,378 views
Kurniawan Salim
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Jakarta Selatan
For ten years the neighborhood has asked for a covered market stall space. This year a group of 23 volunteers, including the neighborhood football club, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for Sycamore Primary School, but no funding. We have received donated paint, and the remaining cost is $350. It will serve about 195 people, including local farmers and market traders. We'll hold a build day in September and everyone is invited. We're a small team, and every dollar will be spent in the open - I'll post receipts and progress photos. Funds are spent only on materials, permits and safety equipment; all labor is volunteered. Where the $350 goes: • Tools hire and delivery: $60 • Safety equipment and signage: $60 • Materials: $230 Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.

Updates from Kurniawan

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($288 in total) we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 36% now ($125). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the suppliers and confirmed the amounts.

  • Walter F. Fitzgerald 🇺🇸 · $26

    “Saw your post and had to give. - Dayton”

  • José K. Fernández 🇺🇸 · $5
  • Landon Arnold 🇺🇸 · $157.50
  • Radu Iulian Ciobanu 🇷🇴 · $100
  • Gianna L. Salvador 🇵🇭 · $25

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  • Could you add a copy of the permit with private details blacked out?

    • I hope things turn around soon. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.

      • Sending strength. This could happen to any of us

        • Keep going, Kurniawan. Gave what I could, wish it was more. After 14 years in teaching I know how hard it's to ask for anything

          • more neighborhoods should do this. Greetings from Southampton.

            • You're not alone. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We're a small family in Port Harcourt but we're thinking of you. Thinking of Jakarta Selatan.

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