Nashihatud Diniyah Jahro Building an Affordable School for the Disadvantaged
Nashihatud Diniyah Jahro, 39, will not let children be deprived of schooling. She allowed the use of part of her house for neighborhood children to learn before finally building a new classroom next to her house.
Nashihatud Diniyah Jahro
Over a dozen children of primary school age are sitting with full concentration, while Nashihatud Diniyah Jahro reads the Arabic script transliterated into Latin letters. One by one, the children imitate the way the letters are pronounced by Iin, as Nashihatud Diniyah Jahro is commonly called. The learning activity in the yellow classroom lined with a carpet is followed by a drawing lesson.
So is the scene of a learning and teaching activity at Yayasan Anak Indonesia Belajar foundation in Bojong, Meruyung subdistrict, Limo district, Depok, West Java. In this school, Iin dedicates her knowledge and life to the intellectual enhancement of the neighborhood children. She has no less than 45 students, some of whom have graduated and pursued junior high school study.