The main scope of our work is in the area of education. We offer scholarships for disadvantaged children in Central Java, Banten, and West Nusa Tenggara to attend Senior High School who would not otherwise have the opportunity. Many successfully go on to win scholarships at university. We also run a unique programme to improve the quality of teachers in Central Java.
Our other concern is to boost societal income generation on a sustainable basis through the opening of Community Learning Centres (CLCs). We believe that an improved family income will lead to better education opportunities for children as well as retaining traditional crafts and skills that would otherwise be lost.
Although Titian started by re-building earthquake damaged schools and moved into scholarships to put less fortunate youngsters through senior high school. This latter programme has been its most successful and long lasting. In 2011 a university scholarship programme was introduced.
Titian’s TQI programme is design to bring new and more effective teaching methods to Indonesia's schools. Teachers became more creative in their approach to the teaching and learning process and as a result it becomes more interesting and fun meaning that lessons are more easily understood by their students.
It was natural to turn our attention to the communities around the locations where we offered scholarships. Hence the Titian Community Learning Centres. Places where all members of the community can learn new things and share their knowledge and skills with one another. Titian now has nine CLCs with one more under construction in Rembitan, southern Lombok.
Titian has completed a number of significant projects which now successfully operate on their own. We still keep a watchful eye on them of course, but we are delighted in their sustained progress. Each is an inspiring story in its own right and represents the principles on which Titian operates. We look forward to working with partners to run more of them in the future.