California State University Students were enrolled in CSUN’s “Leadership for Managing Reform in Higher Education”. They developed a real world campaign to support a shelter that provides assistance including a place to live and learn for teen mothers and their children in Indonesia. Teen mothers and their children are at great risk because of poverty, malnutrition, complications of pregnancy, and emotional problems such as depression, drug, and alcohol use. Children are also at greater risk of physical, cognitive, and emotional problem. Students had made great effort to resolve these issues and has also been awarded by James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation. Jim Luce, founder and C.E.O. of the foundation said that "these men and women have shown great potential for uplifting humanity through their projects and leadership."
According to Luce these students where selected to demonstrate their potential and show the world it's right path and new way of thinking. Their project includes the renovation of a family home in a mountain village in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Students said that their aim is to provide the safe environment for the teen mothers offering them an opportunity to build a brighter future. Teen mothers often get abandoned by family and partners leads them to prostitution and sometimes leave them uneducated. In that scenario mothers have to give their child to adoption centres. So the vocational programme helped students to educate teen mothers and provide them skills to survive and secure a better future for their children and for themselves.
Teammates designed the project with a GoFundMe page to raise funds from everyone from any financial backgrounds.The training programme will also help other teen mothers who will come in future in these organisations.
