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Starting from the founder and partner (Lolot Band manager) conversation about planning and the desire to hold a virtual concert and make new breakthroughs in the Indie music scheme, Cokorda Ngurah Junirath aka Cokrah succeeded in presenting a social media platform called Konserku with a special feature of live streaming concerts using the ticketing system.

“I think it’s great if women want to stay home. But it should be a choice, not something we do because we think we have no choice.”

            Melinda Gates is well known as the wife of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, not only that, she is also a philanthropist, businesswoman, and global advocate for women and girls. Reading her book, The Moment of Lift has really increases my awareness and reflects on what many women have been suffering from. And here is why?

Sexual harassment has become normal in our society. This is indicated by the increasing number of women victims of sexual harassment in Indonesia. According to the National Commission on Violence against Women, sexual harassment cases ranks third after rape and sexual abuse. This data is still classified as an iceberg phenomenon because there are still many women who do not report the abuse they experienced. Then what about men? Although cases of sexual harassment against men do not surface, it does not mean that men are free from sexual harassment.
Do you know about sexual harassment case of online ojek (motorcycle transportation service) drivers?

Gender equality has not received attention as a key to reducing climate change so far. And most people don’t aware that climate change impact women the most, impact women more than men. But why? First, in developing regions, most people don’t understand clearly what discrimination based on gender that women must face. With this reason, we are from Act Global did an online survey to get to know people’s knowledge about this matter, then we specialized the survey into the climate change/environment aspect.

We have heard a lot about verbal harassment cases that occur in everyday life. Most cases that rise to the surface experienced by girls. However, this does not rule out that boys can also be victims of sexual harassment. Therefore, we also asked male respondents some questions about their opinions regarding this issue. What do they think are harassing words and how they react when they hear those words.

“Stop exaggerating, it just a joke”. 

“I said that as a compliment, you should be happy about that”.

Have you ever heard words like that every time your friend or you receive words that make you feel sexually harassed? Some words that refer to sexual things are usually meant to tease or get closer to other people. These habits are understandable when entering a normal conversation. Although it is considered normal, there are still many girls who claim that this habit makes them uncomfortable. Most of them also claimed that they did not dare to confront directly to prevent conflict in a social circle.

      There is a saying, “ We can’t give what we don’t have”. That is so true. Think like this, if we want to help the poor by giving them donations or money, we have to have money. If we want to teach others, we have to be knowledgeable first, and so on. The same goes with love, we can’t give other people our love when we don’t love ourselves first. 

I give it a break before i started to carve it down. So now, the biggest question after all this EVS journey, the question is, ‘what is EVS done to me?’ Before heads up to answer to those question, let me tell you about what kind of EVS that i did. Okay, like few months ago, no, I think its been a year that I was doing an EVS in braga, Portugal. So, I did an EVS in project named “Youth Network for Social Entrepreneurship”. The project went super nice, and even though, I pictured in my memory sometimes. And what the best thing about having a wonderful journey? Yap, you write it down. So here is my story of my wonderful journey of Braga.

“We want Mangsi to become a culinary business that can adapt in every era”. How long would you like to sip your coffee at your favorite Coffee shop? How long would you like to eat your pizza at the restaurant? Why don’t you go to the same place that can serve both? Well, ”Mangsi” is the answer, because of this Food and Beverages business provide more than that. We would like to introduce you to “Mangsi Grill Master”. What is Mangsi ? Where we could find it?

On January 17th, 2020, Act Global and English Club STMIK Primakara held Video Editing Learning for Beginners Workshop at STMIK Primakara, Tukad Badung Street 135, Renon. This workshop was mentored by Chika Mega Kusuma Wardani Winahayu, Act Global Indonesia Foundation volunteer. This activity introduced how to capture a nice video and practical application for editing. An application used in this activity called Movie Maker.