Appco Group Indonesia is contributing to the prevention of AIDS/HIV in the local community

Appco Group Indonesia has been involved in preventing the spread of AIDS and HIV in the local community after taking on a new charity client, YCAB Foundation (Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa), which translates to “loving the nation’s children”, in June of this year.

The aim of the YCAB Foundation is the development of youth within society. The ultimate goal of the foundation is to enable under privileged youth to be economically independent through education provision, economic assistance and welfare creation.

Within the first month starting with the YCAB Foundation, Appco Group Indonesia managed to generate great sales. Since selling out of the original charity product, Appco Group Indonesia is now working on diversifying the product offering created to raise funds for the charity.

By getting local businesses involved in providing discounts for donors, Appco Group Indonesia aims to increase the awareness and range of the charity’s reach within different parts of Indonesia. They also aim to get the local communities in the different parts of the country involved with the charity.

The YCAB Foundation has three specific programs designed to achieve their goals in these areas through emphasis on advocacy and capacity building;

1. Healthy Lifestyle Promotion (HeLP): the prevention of risky behavior including drug abuse and HIV/AIDS and the adoption of a positive and green lifestyle

2. House of Learning and Development (HoLD): Digital inclusion, English Literacy and Vocational Centers

3. Hands-on Operation for Entrepreneurship (HOpE): Welfare creation through seed capital for entrepreneurship including micro loans and job center for the graduates

The YCAB Foundation was granted UN-ECOSOC Special Consultative Status in 2007 and ISO 9001 in 2008 for an international standard of management quality and continues to impact close to half a million youth annually.

To date, the foundations’ programmes have touched the lives of the millions, and aims to transform the lives of a total five million people by 2015.

The YCAB Foundation was launched in Indonesia in 1999 with six staff members on payroll and five advisers and expert volunteers. As an organisation, they have grown tremendously with a total of 85 staff members on payroll at present and over 400 to 500 young volunteers every year, reaching out to 400,000 youth per year.

In 2011, the YCAB Foundation went global through the establishment of YCAB International, a non-profit section 510 (c)(3) organization head-quartered in New York, in order to spread its wings to the Third World and other LDCs (Less Developed Countries) in Asia.