CREATIVITY ACTION SERVICE (CAS) AT SIS-PIK

Creativity Action Service (CAS) allows students to follow their passions. CAS gives students the opportunity to give back to their community, and enjoy learning through experience. It provides opportunities for self-determination and collaboration with others, fostering a sense of accomplishment and enjoyment from their work.

Each week we will feature one of our amazing JC students, and their latest CAS project. Please see Jessie’s story below.

One of my most memorable services is teaching disabled kids in Sekolah Bhakti Luhur Kasih Abba in Bogor. We visit the school every Saturday from 8:00 – 10:00 am and volunteered to teach them as well as enjoy some activities. There are students of different ages ranging from toddlers to seniors. Each of them suffer from different abilities such as down syndrome, blindness, deafness, mute, a slow ability to learn, polio and many more. Despite all this, each and every one of them have very high spirits. Every visit is full of fun, all the students there are very cheerful and enthusiastic of what we have to give. In my class, we do arts and crafts from recycled materials such as plastic wrappers and turn them into decorations for the school. I enjoyed my time with them, from chatting, singing and learning sign language. The excitement they show is the reason why I enjoy helping them out. I learnt a lot from this experience, from being patient, adjusting to other people’s need and learning a few basic sign language. However, as cheesy as it sounds, what stuck most to me is being grateful for everything that I already have. These students taught me to be optimistic and cheerful even through my toughest days! I feel like we were able to learn from each other and have lots of fun, which is something very precious to me.