HOW DOES ISCO WORK ?

1. To open a new sponsored area, ISCO's project officer will do a survey and gather information about some slum areas to find out about its size, population, social structure, economic condition, its customs and the tendency of children that potential to go to the street or becoming children laborer.
2. Find information and access to educational institutions, public as well as private schools, operating close to the prospective program areas, to enable children to go to schools within reach, and up to high school level.
3. Evaluate and choose a slum area to be adopted into ISCO's formal program area. The area chosen should be large enough in terms of number of families to be able to bring impact to the community, as the number of children receiving educational support from ISCO will be also large enough. (should have at least 1,000 families with income less then Rp 700,000 per month)
4. Conduct the mapping of the area (in terms of economical condition, support from parents, and children’s enthusiasm about school), build relationships with local formal and informal leaders, parents of the prospective children and the educational institutions, and then introduce ISCO's programs to the community.
5. Register the children to receive ISCO's scholarship with the approval of their parents, and strengthen relationships with the families to obtain their commitment to the program.
6. Choose the educational institutions where these children will be sent for schooling, and register the children to their respective schools. At this time, full cooperation from the headmasters as well as teachers should be evident. Should there not be an appropriate pre-school within the slum area to prepare the children to primary school, ISCO will set-up one.
7. Monitor each child's educational and social development, and provide full support to the children's psychological development. This includes preventing the children to go to the street.
8. Implement all ISCO’s programs to provide the children with all the educational supports and to limit them from going to the streets.
9. Perform home visits to the children to monitor their family upbringings.
10. Maintain relationship with the local communities in the program areas to make sure the success and continuity of ISCO Foundation's programs