The Entrepreneurship Chevalier Anasai (ECA) High School is run by MSCs in Indonesia to help the young people of the Papua District, which covers missions in the Archdiocese of Merauke and Diocese of Jayapura.
The ECA High School is a special school for indigenous Papuan youth, who come from difficult backgrounds such as broken homes, families who suffer greatly from poverty, the loss of one or both parents, or problematic or inaccessible living situations. The school has been running for six years now, and now offers education and a chance of hope to 106 students in total.
Basic facilities for essential tasks
The school does not charge fees to the students, due to the severity of their circumstances, but this makes funding extremely challenging. This year, we’re helping the ECA High School community to raise funds to continue in their vital work of educating and empowering young indigenous Papuans, giving them a chance for a future beyond their current challenges and limitations.
The ECA High School community are looking to raise a total of €32,000 in total, with half going to the tuition and accommodation of 106 students for one year, and the other half going towards the construction of a comfortable and safe kitchen and dining area for the young people at the school, who currently cook in an unsustainable temporary kitchen structure, and eat meals in their study room.
Tending the garden
The temporary kitchen
“The purpose of this school is to help these indigenous Papuan youths to gain better skills, to reach a higher academic level, and to achieve a better future,” writes the ECA team.
These young students are working to break the boundaries of cultural expectations and progress towards something bigger, to gain academic education and vital life skills that will carry them beyond their personal and social limitations and allow them to contribute to their families and communities in the future, laying the groundwork for generations to come. Can you help?