Tan Kaitlynn Eleanore Poa
The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan stated that rates of sexual harassment during the pandemic, particularly online, have more than doubled than before it. From January to October 2020 alone, 659 cases of online sexual harassment were reported, more than double of 2019’s total of 281 cases. The issue became a concern in Indonesia since not many people support their recovery due to traditional misconceptions, negligence, some conservative factions, among others.
Our project, Cookies for Hope, focuses on to raise funds that will be donated to a local charity, Yayasan Pulih, to victims of sexual harassment. Yayasan Pulih is a foundation that operates a recovery center to help victims of sexual and domestic violence by providing psychological services. By donating, it is our way to support the campaign. We raise our funds by selling goods, to be more specific, assorted snacks and cookies for Season’s greeting: Spring and Ramadhan.
Kaitlynn's Reflection Experiences
Reflection 1 : Investigation
Date/Time: 17 February 2021
Venue: Stay at Home
Team members present: (we haven't take attendance in this meeting)
CAS Stage: Investigation
LOs achieved: LO 6 & LO 7 (Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance and Recognize and consider the ethics of choices and actions)
Description
For our investigation, we originally planned to collect donations but we weren't sure where we would donate them. However, after further discussion, we decided to donate to sexual harassment victims since we think that there is a global significance in that issue, in which we achieve LO6. We also discussed how we want to donate 100% of the profits to the donation since we think it is way more ethical and that we all don't need the profit, especially since the donation is more important than a few extra pocket money. I think from the experience, it is important to plan out what and why we are doing this project because, without that, we would lose the purpose of selling our products and might see it as gaining profit for ourselves, not the project. I think from today, it went smoothly since we were only deciding on what to do and where we are donating it to but there was a little trouble in what we were planning to sell.
Expressing Feeling
From doing this experience, I think I felt quite positive about this project since we are doing this project for a good cause. But was a bit worried if there will be people buying our future products because I think we are still in the pandemic so it is a bit harder for us to promote directly to people and that some people might just ignore our digital promotion.
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Generating idea and asking questions
This experience for this project is a very huge achievement for me since I've wanting to raise awareness of sexual harassment victims. This is because I think that this topic is a bit controversial or a bit hard to discuss with people. So, I would say that being in this project itself is already kind of rewarding for me. But for this meeting, since I was assigned to the art group, I have a sense of responsibility to take charge of the art group, which I am worried about. I think today's experience contributes to being inquirer and caring. We were questioning a lot on how do we achieve our goal, when should we start selling, and what will be our product. We were also researching for some donation boxes that were open to being donated to foundations that are handling sexual harassment victims, which could be included as an inquirer and also our research skills. I think we all showed caring in a way that we try to consider the price of our product since the pandemic lets a lot of people go from their jobs and might not be doing well financially. So, we tried to make our price as low as possible. We also show caring by wanting to donate to sexual harassment victims.
Evidence:
First meeting scheduling in Line: https://drive.google.com/drive...