AusAID Canberra and KGCCs
 Kathryn
Elliott works for AusAID in Canberra. She is a Program Officer on the
Indonesia Desk and is looking after the Indonesian bilateral aid program.
AusAID regularly sends staff from Australia to visit AusAID projects and
activities in Indonesia to see what they are doing and how they are doing
it. Kathryn came to Indonesia in March 2004 to take a look at Kang Guru.
She was especially interested in KGRE Connection Club network and the
members of those clubs.
As a part of her visit KGRE introduced her to Connection Clubs and their
members, teachers and teacher groups along with other people who are a
part of the KGRE ‘family’ in Indonesia. For example, here’s
a little of what Kathryn said about her visits with KG Connection Clubs
in South Sulawesi. Kathryn spoke very highly of the meetings she had with
KG Connection Clubs in South Sulawesi.
“The Pioneer Club meets every Sunday at Fort Rotterdam and they
sit outside with the microphone and they introduce the new members that
are joining the Club. I think there were about four to five new members
joining on the day that we went to visit the club. And it was really a
fun activity because the other members got to ask the new members questions
about why they wanted to learn English, their interests, what their hope
for the future and also just fun conversation about all sorts of things.
And in the afternoon we moved over to the Best Forum Club which is very
active KG Connection Club based at SMK 1. That was a really useful Club
to visit because it had different groups coming together at different
levels. So we had groups at the SMK level but we also had people that
were from the university and also people that were un-employed that were
looking for other opportunities. Members of the MAKES Club which is another
connection club in Makassar also attended. Our visit to the English Lovers
Club in Wajo was especially interesting because we looked at how Kang
Guru English materials were being used as prizes to give to students at
SD level. We actually watched an English language competition for SD level
students which was quite fun. They had to unscramble words, they had to
do cross word puzzles and so on. It was a lot of fun.”
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